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1. The death of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb occurred at which among the following places?




2. The Sayyid dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate is called so because?




3. The Mansabdari system was borrowed from ?




4. Which of the following Rajput clan does not belong to the Agnikula?




5. Who among the following built the Alai Darwaza?




6. Which of the following Pala Kings established Vikramshila university?




7. Who among the following was appointed as the supreme authority in justice during the era of Mughal Emperors ?




8. The famous Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai was built during which dynasty?




9. Which of the following rulers earned the title of Purvapaschima Samudradhishavara?




10. The temple city of Osian, near Jodhpur was built by which among the following Rajput Kings?




11. Which among the following empires was located on the banks of Tungabhadra River?




12. During the reign of which among the following Mughal Emperors, Mughal Architecture reached its zenith?




13. Who among the following composed Ananga?




14. During the reign of Devaraya II which of the following famous temples were built in Vijaynagar empire?




15. Which of the following battles helped Shershah to establish Suri Dynasty ?




16. Who among the following led a campaign against Warangal in 1309?




17. Who among the following written Manmaul Bahrain?




18. Who among the following succeded Ruknuddin Feroz?




19. Chandradeva, was the founder of which of the following dynasty?




20. Sakambhari near Ajmer is a place related to emergence of which of the following dynasties?




21. Tazkirat ul Muluk is about which dynasty?




22. Ghiyasuddin Muhammad wrote which of the following sheds light on many aspects of the social and cultural life of the age?




23. Which of the following is a first hand authority for much of what happened in Rajputana and Malwa between 1657 and 1698?




24. Which emperor issued a coin containing zodiac signs?




25. Which of the following Islamic scholars was not a contemporary of Ghaznavid Sultan Mahmud?




26. Which of the following were not included in the ethnic composition of the armies Mahmud of Ghazni?




27. During whose reign among the following Qubacha (slave of Muizzudin) declared himself an independent ruler of Multan and seized Lahore and parts of the punjab ? 




28. Who patronised the historian Minhaj us Siraj and the saint Qutbuddin of Ush




29. Which sultan of Delhi was a contemporary of the Mongol leader Genghis Khan?




30. Who assumed the title of Amir ul Momminy?




31. The queen Rani Bai is associated with which of these kingdoms during early medieval India?




32. Which of the following conquest of Mahmud occurred chronologically later than other three?




33. The term Tarf used during the reign of Qutubuddin Aibak stands for 




34. Who among the following ruler was popular by the name of Lakha Baksh?




35. Who among the following introduced Navroz in India?




36. Tazkirat ul Vaqiat was put together by which of the following?




37. Tazkireh i Humayun va Akbar was written by which of the following?




38. Which of the following was the author of Kitab ur Rehlah ?




39. After capturing Debal & Nirun, Muhammad bin Qasim marched towards which of the following?




40. Which of the following rulers was bestowed with the title Yamin ud Daula ?




41. Ghaznavid Empire was defeated by which of the following at the Battle of Dandanqan?




42. Which of the following is considered as the actual founder of the Islamic Empire in India?




43. During which of the following period Muhammad Ghori led an expedition against Multan?




44. Chalukya ruler of Gujarat, Solanki Bhima II, defeated Which of the following kings at the battle of Kayadara?




45. Qutbuddin made which of the following places as his headquarters before embarking on a campaign of expansion?




46. Qutab ud din Aibak defeated which of the following kings to capture Gujarat?




47. Qutub ud din Aibak received the title of Sultan of Delhi from which of the following?




48. Razia Sultan was married to which of the following?




49. Which of the following kings succeeded Alauddin Masud Shah?




50. Which of the following treacherously murdered Jalaluddin Khalji?




51. Which of the following kings transferred his capital from Delhi to Devagiri?




52. Khizr Khan was succeeded by which of the following kings?




53. Which among the following wrote Persian verses under the name Gulrakhi ?




54. Which of the following was defeated by Rana Sanga of Mewar?




55. Daud Shah was succeeded by which of the following kings?




56. During the Sultanate period the village headman was known as?




57. Which of the following constructed a palace in Delhi called the Kushk i Lal?




58. Deva Raya Is rule is associated with of the following periods?




59. Krishna Deva Raya died in which of the following years?




60. Which of the following succeeded Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah?




61. Which of the following divided the Bahmani kingdom into eight tarafs or provinces?




62. Which of the following Bahamani ruler was considered to be the shadow of god?




63. Ahmed Bahri Nizam Shah ruled during which of the following periods?




64. Alauddin Imad Shah ruled during which of the following periods?




65. Which of the following rulers witnessed the rise of Marathas?




66. Beshara refers to which of the following?




67. Which of the following was the spiritual successor of Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki?




68. Which of the following founded a new school of Vaishnavism based on the gospel of love and devotion?




69. Akbar is believed to be the follower of which of the following bhakti saints?




70. Which of the following saint received the title of Shaikh I Kabir?




71. The Suhrawardi order was popularized in Kashmir by which of the following saint?




72. Before joining the Suhrawardi order which of the following lived in the company of Gorakhnath?




73. Bijak is the best known of the compilations of the compositions of which of the following bhakti saints?




74. Which of the following established an all India Empire by breaking the power of the Rajput Confederacy?




75. Battle of Bilgrama was fought in which of the following years?




76. Sher Mandal, an octagonal building inside the Purana Qila complex served as the library of which of the following?




77. Which of the following was the chief qazi during the Akbars reign?




78. Which of the following was not one the provinces into which the Mughal empire was divided during the reign of Akbar?




79. Which of the following introduced the Mansabdari system in his administration?




80. Which of the following was the Finance minister during the reign of Akbar?




81. Which of the following granted the chauth and sardeshmukhi of Deccan to Shahu?




82. The battle of Plassey was fought in which of the following year?




83. Which of the following was the head of the military, pay, and accounts office?




84. Battle of Pavankhind was fought between Shivaji and which of the following?




85. Which of the following looked after finance and general administration in the empire of Shivaji?




86. Which of the following employed a special script known as the Modi script in the documents of the revenue and administrative records?




87. Who among the following is counted first among the list of the Nayanar saints?




88. Which of the following broke the orthodox Brahmanical framework that worked as one of the factors behind rise of Bhakti cult in Northern India?




89. In which of the following building, the architecture system of Karez was used?