Practice Quiz set 8 - indian history mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) What was the stake in the agricultural production in the land revenue system of Shivaji?
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Q-2) Head of the military department under the recognised central machinery of administration during Akbar’s reign was:
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Q-3) Which of the following was the court language during the reign of Akbar?
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Q-4) Aurangzeb was an expert musician of which instrument?
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Aurangzeb banned music in the court and relieved the musicians. Though instrumental music was continued in the court. He was himself expert in playing Veena.
Q-5) The Mughal rulers of medieval India were in fact
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Q-6) The Maratha artillery was mainly organised by
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Q-7) Who among the following painters committed suicide?
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Q-8) Consider the following statements :
- The Ain-i Akbari is the third book in the Akbarnama written during the reign of the Mughal Emperor, Akbar.
- Abul Fazl was the author of the first two books of the Akbarnama while Akbar was the author of the third.
- The best-known accounts of illustrated Mughal official reports are the Akbarnama and the Babarnama.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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The first volume of Akbarnama deals with the birth of Akbar, the history of Timur’s family and the reigns of Babur and Humayun and the Suri sultans of Delhi.
The second volume describes the detailed history of the reign of Akbar till 1602 and records the events during Akbar’s reign.
The third volume is named Ain-i-Akbari and details the administrative system of the Empire as well as containing the famous “Account of the Hindu Sciences”. It also deals with Akbar’s household, army, the revenues and the geography of the empire. It also produces rich details about the traditions and culture of the people living in India.
It is famous for its rich statistical details about things as diverse as crop yields, prices, wages and revenues. Baburnama (alternatively known as Tuzk-e Babri) is the name given to the memoirs of Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur (1483 – 1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur.
Q-9) One of the observatories established by Sawai Jai Singh was at
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One of the observatories established by Sawai Jai Singh was of Ujjain.
The idea behind building a number of observatories at different locations in northern India was to make the same observations from different places and thus reduce the errors introduced due to the limits of resolution of human vision.
Sawai Jai Singh built the three small ones at Ujjain, Mathura, and Banaras with the help of Hindu astronomers who themselves had limitations in civil engineering (architectural engineering).
Q-10) Consider the following statements:
- In Shivaji’s domain, Chauth was mainly a military contribution.
- Shivaji demanded Sardeshmukhi on the basis of his claim as the hereditary Sardeshmukh of Maharashtra.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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In Shivaji’s domain chauth was mainly a military contribution. Shivaji demanded Sardeshmukhi on the basis of his claim as the hereditary sardeshmukh of Maharashtra.
Shivaji first demanded chauth in 1665 and the Deccan sultanates of Bijapur and Golconda began to pay him a combined sum of 800,000 after he was made a raja by Aurangzeb in 1668. In 1719, the Mughal emperor granted Shahu the chauth and sardeshmukhi rights over the six Deccan provinces in exchange for his maintaining a contingent of 15,000 troops for the emperor.
The revenues from chauth were in turn divided into four parts that went to various functionaries of the Maratha empire.