Akbar Flashcards
Akbar The Great, my favorite Mughal Emperor.
What is the full name of Akbar?
Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar
Who is the father of Akbar?
Humayun
Who is the mother of Akbar?
Hamida Banu Begam
Akbar was born at?
Amarkot
Akbar was born in the year?
1542
Who was Akbar’s regent?
Bairam Khan
Who represented Akbar in the ‘Second Battle of Panipat’?
Bairam Khan.
In which year the ‘Second Battle of Panipat’ took place?
1556
Akbar was coronated by Bairam Khan at which place?
Kalanaur
How old was Akbar during his coronation at Kalanaur?
14 years old.
Second Battle of Panipat was fought by Bairam Khan against?
Hemu Vikramaditya
Hemu was the Prime Minister of which King?
Muhammad Shah Adil of Bengal
Who is the last Hindu king of Delhi?
Hemu Vikramaditya
Akbar ruled under Bairam Khan’s regency between the period?
1556-1560
Where was Bairam Khan assassinated?
Patan, Gujarat.
Who killed Bairam Khan?
Afghani enemies
Where was Bairam Khan heading to when he was killed?
Mecca
In which year did Akbar conquer ‘Malwa’?
1561
Whom did Akbar defeat while conquering Malwa?
Baz Bahadur
What did Akbar do to Baz Bahadur after defeating him in the battle for Malwa?
He was made the ‘Mansabdar’
Why did Akbar make Baz Bahadur a ‘Mansabdar’?
To honour his skill as a musician.
Akbar defeated Garh-Katanga ruled by?
Rani Durgavati
Rani Durgavati ruled which kingdom?
Garh-Katanga
Akbar defeated Rani Durgavati in the year?
1564
When did Akbar marry Mariam-uz-Zamani (Jodhaa)?
1562
Who is Mariam-uz-Zamani?
Eldest daughter of ‘Raja Bharmal’ of Jaipur.
In 1570, Akbar married the princesses from
Bikaner and Jaisalmer
In 1584, Prince Salim was married to the daughter of?
Raja Bhagwant Das
Who was Raja Bhagwant Das?
Eldest son of Raja Bharmal. Brother of Jodhaa
Akbar won Gujarat in the year?
1572
In order to commemorate his victory over Gujarat Akbar built what?
Buland Darwaza.
Where is Buland Darwaza?
Fatehpur Sikri, UP.
Which is the highest gateway in the world?
Buland Darwaza
For suppressing the revolt of Gujarat, Abdul Rahim was given the title of?
Khan-i-Khana
Who was Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khana?
Son of Bairam Khan. One of Akbar’s Navratnas.
Who translated Babur’s memoirs, Baburnama from Chagatai language to Persian language?
Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khana
Name the two books on astrology written by Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khana?
Khetakautukam and Dwatrimshadyogavali
Akbar’s Mughal forces fought Battle of Haldighati on
18 Jun 1576
Who represented Mughal’s forces in the Battle of Haldighati?
Raja Maan Singh
Battle of Haldighati was fought by Mughals against?
Rana of Mewar, Maharana Pratap.
Raja Maan Singh conquered which states for Akbar?
Bihar, Bengal and Orissa.
Akbar conquered Kashmir in the year?
1586
Akbar conquered Sindh in the year?
1593
Akbar’s last conquest was at?
Fort of Asirgarh in Deccan.
Akbar died of ?
Dysentery
Akbar was buried at?
Sikandra, Agra.
Akbar died in the year?
1605
Who was the first Englishman to visit Akbar’s court?
Ralph Fitch
When did Ralph Fitch visit Akbar’s court?
1585
Akbar abolished Jaziyah in the year?
1564
What is Jaziyah?
Jaziyah or Jizya is the tax levied upon by Muslim rulers on non-muslims
Akbar regularly visited this shrine?
Sheikh Muinuddin Chisti
Where is the Sheikh Muinuddin Chisti shrine?
Ajmer
Akbar believed in Peace with all. What was it’s Arabic term?
Sulh-i-Kul
Akbar built the house of Prayers at which place and what was it called?
He built Ibadat Khana at Fatehpur Sikri
Ibadat Khana was built in the year?
1575
Akbar issued the ‘Decree of Infallibility’ in the year?
1579
Akbar created a new faith called?
Din-i-ilahi
Din-i-ilahi is also called as
Tawhid-i-ilahi
Akbar formulated Din-i-ilahi in the year?
1581
Who joined Din-i-ilahi?
Birbal, Abu Fazl and Faizi
Akbar’s land revenue system is called as
Todar Mal Bandobast
Todar Mal Bandobast system is also called as
Zabti System
Three salient features of Zabti system?
i) measurement of land,
ii) classification of land,
iii) fixation of rates.
Who are the important revenue officers under Akbar?
Todar Mal and Muzaffar Khan Turbati
In order to organise the Nobility as well as the Army, Akbar introduced which system?
Mansabdary System
Mansabdar means
holder of a rank.
What are the two ranks in Mansabdary System?
Zat and Sawar.
What does Zat indicate?
the status and standing in Administrative hierarchy
What does Sawar indicate?
the number of Troopers held by Mansabdar.
Real name of Raja Birbal, one of the nine gems (Navratnas) of Akbar?
Mahesh Das
Birbal is also a Poet his collections were under the pen name?
Brahma
Where were Birbal’s collection of Poems preserved?
Bharatpur Museum, Rajasthan
Miyan Tansen was born in
Gwalior
Tansen served as court musician under these 2 rulers
King Ramachandra of Mewar and later to Akbar
Tansen, born Hindu later accepted Islam at the hands of?
Sufi Great Shaykh Muhammad Ghaus.
Tansen allegedly brought Rain and Fire through singing these ragas
Megh Malhar and Deepak respectively
Birth name of Tansen
Ramtanu
Tansen was remembered for his epic compositions what were they called?
Dhrupad compositions
Tansen’s 2 classic books on music
Sri Ganesh Stotra and Sangita Sara
Who created the raga Darbari Kanada?
Tansen
Tansen’s son Bilas Khan composed the raga
Bilaskhani Todi
Who’s the author of Akbarnama?
Abul Fazl
Who’s the chronicler of Akbar’s rule?
Abul Fazl
Abul Fazl is the author of these 2 books?
Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari
Who killed Abul Fazl?
Akbar’s son Salim (Jahangir)
Who is the brother of Abul Fazl?
Faizi
Akbar appointed this navratna as a teacher for his son
Faizi
Who translated Bhaskaracharya’s famous mathematical work ‘Lilavati’ into Persian?
Faizi
Raja Maan Singh is the son of
Raja Bhagwant Das, brother of Jodha
Raja Maan Singh is the Raja of
Amber
Akbar bestowed this title on Raja Todar Mal
Diwan-I-Ashraf
This Navratna of Akbar introduced Standard weights and measures
Raja Todar Mal
Who are the 2 other less significant Navratna’s of Akbar who served as Advisors
Faqir Aziao Din and Mullah Do Piaza
