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Saturday, 21 March 2015

The Mughal Empire / the Marathas SECTION 7

1.       Assertion (A) Emperor Akbar marched towards Afghanistan is 1581, with a huge army.
 
Reason (R) He was on his way to reclaim his ancestral country of Ferghana in central Asia. 

2.       Assertion (A) after Mohammad –bin- Tughlaq, his cousin Firoz Tughlaq ascended the throne.
Reason (R) the sons of Mohammad – bin- Tughlaq were killed in the battle for succession to the throne.

3.       Assertion (A) Ala –ud-din khilji imposed curbs on the power of the nobility.
Reason (R) Nobles were against Ala-ud-din at the time of his struggle with Jalal-ud-din.

4.       Assertion (A) Al Baruni, who visited India at the time of Mahmud of Ghzazhi criticized the Hindus for their exclusiveness which kept them away from the rest of the world.
Reason (R) he believed that the caste system was responsible for this.
5.       Assertion (A) the largest numbers of books on Indian classical music were written during Aurangzeb’s reign.
Reason (R) Aurangzeb encouraged music

6.       Assertion (A) Maratha’s emerged as the strongest native power in India after the decline of Mughal Empire.
Reason (R) Marathas were the first to have a clear concept of a United Indian Nation.

7.       Which one among the following wars ended by the Treaty f Salba?
(a)    First Maratha War
(b)   Second Maratha war
(c)    Third Malatha War
(d)   Fourth Mysore War

8.       Match the following

List I
(Battle)
List II
(Year)
      A.      1st battle of Panipat
      B.      Battle of Plassey
     C.      Battle of Haldighati
      D.      Battle of Thikota
      1.       1565
      2.       1526
      3.       1757
       4.       1576

Codes
(a)    2   3   4   1
(b)   2   4   3   1
(c)    1   4   3   2
(d)   1   3   4   2

9.       Consider the following statements about the famous traveler lbn Batuta

1.       He was Moroccan traveler.
2.       He narrated his experience while the sub-continent in the 14th century in Kitab-ul-Hind.
3.       He was sent as the envoy of Sultan of Delhi of China.

Which of the statemtns given above is /are correct?

(a)    1,   2 and 3
(b)   1  and 2
(c)    Only 3
(d)   1 and 3

10.   Which one among the following pairs is correctly matched?

(a)    The second   battle of Tarain    :   Defeat of Jaichand of Kanauj  by
                                                             Muhammad of Ghuri
(b)   The first Battle of Panipat          :   Defeat of Sikandar  Lodi by Babar
(c)    The battle of Chausa                   :  Defeat of Humayun by sher shah
(d)   The battle of kahanwa               :   defeat of rana pratap by Akbar

11.   Sheikh Moin-du-din, Bakhtiyar kaki and Farid-ud-din, Ganj-i-shakar were
(a)    Prominent military leaders of the sultanate period
(b)   Prominent painters from the sultanate period
(c)    Prominent Chisti Saints
(d)   Prominent poets from the courts of the Sultanate period.

12.   What was the immediate cause for Ahmed shah Abdali to invade and fight the Third Battle of Panipat?
(a)    He wanted to avenge the expulsion by Mara-thas of his viceroy Timur Shah from Lahore
(b)   The frustrated governor of Jullundhar, Adina beg Khan invaded him to invade Punjab
(c)    He wanted to punish Mughal administration for non-payment of the revenues of the chahar mahal (Gujarat, Aurangabad, Sialkot and Pasrur)
(d)   He wanted to annex all the fertile plains of Punjab up to the borders of Delhi to his kingdom

13.   Match the following
List I
(battle)
List II
(Treaty)
       A.      The Third Carnatic War
      B.      The third Mysore War
      C.      The first Maratha War
      D.      The first Ango-sikh war
      1.       Treaty of Salbai
      2.       Treaty of Lahore
      3.       Tready of Paris
      4.       Tready of Sriran gapatanam


Codes
(a)    2   1   4  3
(b)   2   4   1  3
(c)    3  4    1  2
(d)   3  1    4   2

Answer:

1.       C
2.       A
3.       C
4.       A
5.       C
6.       C
7.       C
8.       A
9.       B
10.   C
11.   D
12.   A
13.   C

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