delhi sultanate mcq set 5 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Alauddin Khilji was advised by Qazi Mughisuddin to act according to the laws of Shariat, but the Sultan rejected his advice.

Answer: (a)

Answer: (a)

Amir Khusrow is known as the parrot of India. It was he, who himself called Tuti-e-Hind’(parrot of India). ‘To speak the truth, I am an Indian Parrot. If you want to listen from me some subtle verses, ask me then to recite some of my Hindwi poems.” He himself did not collect and preserve his Hindwi poems but made a gift of them to his friends. His poem, Kaliq Bari is a lexicon composed of synonymous words, from four languages, Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hindwi.

Answer: (d)

Ibn Batutah says that Muhammad-binTughlaq was disgusted with the population of Delhi and thus wanted to punish them. But most of the historians do not agree with Ibn Batutah. The Sultan also made an ill-advised financial experiment in the Doab between the Ganges and Jamuna.

He not only increased the rate of taxation but also revived and created some additional Abwabs or cesses. Although the share of the state remained half as in the time of Alauddin, it was fixed arbitrarily and not on the basis of actual production.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

The Vijaynagar city was located on the bank of river Tungabhadra. The ‘Raichur Doab’ region situated between the rivers of Krishna and Tungabhadra. The Ancient City of Vijayanagar was the urban core of the imperial city and the surrounding principalities of the capital of the Vijayanagar empire during the 14th century to 16th century CE.

Notes by foreign travellers such as Abdur Razzak, the Persian who visited Vijayanagara in 1440, mention six fortifications before the gates to the royal palace. The large area between the first and third fortifications contained agricultural fields, gardens and residences.