Delhi Sultanate 1290- 1526

Question 1

Which sultans receive Mansoor from Khalif

Answer 1

Iltutmish
Mahommad bin Tughlaq
Firoz Shah Tughlaq

Question 2

How administration of Delhi sultanate was organised at Central level?
Name 5 departments?
Which officer above all departments?

Answer 2

Sultan- naib- 5 department
Deewani wazirat deewani Ariz deewani rasalat deewani Insha judicial department
Naib

Question 3

What were the function of Ariz e mumalik?
What were the functions of Sadr?
What were the function of Diwani insha

Answer 3

-recruiting soldiers
-administration of military department

-donation for construction of mosque, madrasa, tombs

-correspondence between ruler and officials

Question 4

Describe local administration under Delhi Sultanate and head at each level

Answer 4

Iqtas-shiqs-pargana-village
Muqtis or walis- shiqdar- amil-muqaddam or chaudhri and patwari

Question 5

Why urbanization increased during Delhi sultanate?
Which new cities developed under Delhi sultanate?

Answer 5

-because development of new cities
-tughlakabad daulatabad Jaunpur Lahore Multan Lakhanti Broach anhilwara

Question 6

Who issued takavi loans

Answer 6

Mohammed bin tuglak

Question 7

Who issued silver tankas
How it was divided during khalji and Tughlaq period?

Answer 7

Iltutmish
-48 jittals and 50 jittals

Question 8

What were Dinars?
Who issued them?

Answer 8

-gold coins
-alauddin khalji

Question 9

Who separated jazia from land tax?

Answer 9

Feroz Shah Tughlaq

Question 10

What is height of qutub minar?
Which mosque near qutub minar?
Mosque is dedicated to which Sufi Saint?

Answer 10

-71m
-quwwat ul Islam
-qutubuddin bakhtiyar kaki

Question 11

Who built city of tughlakabad?

Answer 11

Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

Question 12

-Where was Amir khusro born?
-Which two rags he introduced?
-Who introduced qawwali? Blend of which two cultural music?
-Raja Mansingh Tomar Gwalior associated with which music commentary? It is commentary on which music?
-Which Indian class work history of music and science translated into persian during reign of Firoz Shah Tughlaq?

Answer 12

-india
-ghora and sanam
-amir khusrau- Indian and iranian
-man kautuhal- persian music
-ragadarpan

Question 13

Tarik e firoz shahi

Answer 13

Ziauddin barani

Question 14

Tabaqat i nasari

Answer 14

Minhaj ur siraj

Question 15

Books by Amir khusrau

Answer 15

Sabaq i Hind
Khazain ul futuh
Tughlaq nama

Question 16

Zia nakshabi
Which book?
Which other works of Sanskrit also translated

Answer 16

First to translate Sanskrit stories into Persian under Akbar
Tutu nama translated from Sanskrit to Persian
- Sanskrit medicine and music

Question 17

Raj tarangini

Answer 17

By Kalhana
Kashmirs history

Question 18

Kitab ul hind

Answer 18

Abu rehman alberuni

Question 19

Name famous poets of Delhi sultanate

Answer 19

Hasan nizami
Shams siraj afif
Chand bardai