MEDIEVAL HISTORY: JPSC GK
Q1. The Mughal school of painting formed the spinal column of different schools of Indian miniature art. Which painting style was not affected by Mughal painting ? - Kalighata
Q2. Who were famous jurists of medieval India ? - Vijnanesvara, Hemadri, Jimutavahana
Q3. Which monument has a dome which is said to be one of the largest in the world ? - Gol Gumbaz of Muhammad Adil Shah, Bijapur (Karnataka)
Q4. Ashtapradhan was a council of which ministers ? - in the Maratha administration
Q5. The term 'Apabhramsa' was used in medieval Sanskrit texts to denote ? - early forms of some of the modern Indian language
Q6. Nastaliq was ? - a Persian script used in medieval India
Q7. The Sufi saint who maintained that devotional music was one way of coming close to God was ? - Muin-ud-din Chisti
Q8. Mughal painting reached its zenith under whom ? - Jahangir
Q9. In medieval India, the Mansabdari system was introduced for ? - effecting clean administration
Q10. Prem Vatika, poems on the life of Krishna were composed by ? - Raskhan, a Muslim follower of Lord Krishna
Q11. After consolidating his power, Balban assumed the grand title of ? - Zil-I-Ilahi
Q12. Head of the military department under the recognized central machinery of administration during Akbar's reign was ? - Mir Bakshi
Q13. The medieval Indian writer who refers to the discovery of America is ? - Abul Fazl
Q14. The member of Shivaji's Ashtapradhan who looked after foreign affairs was ? - Sumant
Q15. The loss of Qandhar was a big blow to the Mughal empire from the viewpoint of ? - strategic stronghold
Q16. Fawazil in the Sultanate period meant ? - excess amount paid to the exchequer by the Iqtadars
Q17. Sultan of Delhi who is reputed to have built the biggest network of canals in India was ? - Firoz Shah Tughlaq
Q18. The first writer to use Urdu as the medium of poetic expressions was ? - Amir Khusrau
Q19. One consistent feature found in the history of southern India was the growth of small regional kingdoms rather than large empire because of ? - absence of vast areas of fertile land
Q20. 'The king was freed from his people and them from their king'. On whose death did Badauni ( Abd al- Qadir Badayuni) comment thus ? - Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq
Q21. Who streamlined the Maratha administration after Sambhaji ? - Balaji Vishwanath
Q22. Which Muslim ruler was hailed as the 'Jagadguru' by his Muslim subject because of his belief in secularism ? - Ibrahim Adil Shah
Q23. In which cities the Lingaraja Temple located is ? - Bhubaneshwar (Odisha)
Q24. Mangols under Chengiz Khan invaded India during the reign of ? - Iltutamish
Q25. Which port was called Babul Makka (Gate of Makka) during the Mughal period ? - Surat
Q26. Who was the first Bhakti saint to use Hindi for the propagation of his messages ? - Ramananda
Q27. To motive behind Shahjahan's Balkh campaign was to ? - secure a friendly ruler in Balkh and Badakshan which bordered Kabul
Q28. Alam Khan, one of who invited Babur to invade India was ? - an uncle of Ibrahim Lodi and a pretender to the throne of Delhi
Q29. Battle of Dharmat was fought between ? - Aurangzeb and Dara Shikoh
Q30. How did the Mughal emperor Jahandar Shah's reign come to an early end ? - He was defeated by his nephew (Farrukhsiyar) in a battle at Agra on 10 January 1713
Q31. How did Sultan Qutb-ud-din Aibak die ? - He died after a fall from his horse while playing Chaugan
Q32. The sequence indicates the correct chronological order ? - Shankaracharya -> Ramanuja -> Chaitanya
Q33. Who was the last ruler of Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate ? - Nasir-ud-din Mahmud
Q34. How did the dynasty of Nizam Shahis of Ahmednagar come to an end ? - Ahmadnagar was annexed into Mughal empire and Hussain Shah was given life imprisonment
Q35. The initial design and construction of which massive temple took place during the reign of Suryavarman II ? - Angkor Vat Temple (Combodia)
Q36. When Raja Wodeyar founded in the kingdom of Mysore, who was the ruler of the Vijayanagar Empire ? - Venkata II
Q37. In the 1613, where was the English East India Company given permission to set up a factory (trading post ) ? - Surat
Q38. The correct chronological order of Afghan rulers to the throne of Delhi ? - Bahlol Khan Lodi -> Sikandar Shah -> Ibrahim Lodi
Q39. Bhakta Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor ? - Jahangir
Q40. In Indian history, who was Abdul Hamid Lahori ? - an official historian of the reign of Shahjahan
Q41. Where is the famous Vijaya Vittala temple having its 56 carved pillars emmiting musical notes located ? - Hampi (Karnataka)
Q42. During the time of which Mughal emperor did the English East India Company establish its first factory in India ? - Jahangir
Q43. Where is the famous Virupaksha temple located ? - Hampi (Karnataka)
Q44. Which whose permission did the English set up their first factory in Surat ? - Jahangir
Q45. Ibadat Khana at Fatehpur Sikri was ? - the hall in which Akbar held discussions with scholars of various religions
Q46. In medieval India, the designations 'Mahattara' and 'Pattakila' were used for ? - village headmen
Q47. Who founded a new city on the south bank of the tributary of river Krishna and undertook to rule his new kingdom as the agent of a deity to whom all the land south of the river Krishna was supposed to belong ? - Harihara II
Q48. Banjaras during the medieval period of Indian history were generally ? - traders
Q49. Who had first deciphered the edicts of Emperor Ashoka ? - James Prinsep
Q50. With reference to the economic history of medieval India, the term 'Araghatta' refers to ? - waterwheel used in the irrigation of land
Q51. With reference to the cultural history of India, the memorizing of chronicles, dynastic histories and Epic tales was the profession of ? - Magadha
Q52. The well known painting 'Bani Thani' belongs to ? - Kishangarh School
Q53. With reference to the Mian Tansen - Tansen was the title given by emperor Akbar
Q54. Mughal emperor who shifted emphasis from illustrated manuscripts to album and individual portrait ? - Jahangir.
