DELHI SULTANATE Flashcards
SLAVE DYNASTY WAS ALSO CALLED?
MAMLUK DYNASTY. MAMLUK WAS THE QURANIC TERM FOR SLAVE.
WHICH RULER WAS CALLED LAKH BAKSH OR GIVER OF LAKHS?
MUSLIM WRITERS CALLED QUTUBDDIN AYBAK LAKH BAKSH BECAUSE HE GAVE LIBERAL DONATIONS TO THEM.
QUTUBDDIN AYBAK DIED PLAYING CHAUGAN IN 1210. WHAT IS CHAUGAN?
HORSE POLO.
ILTUMISH
1. ILTUMISH BELONGED TO ______ TRIBE.
2. HIS BROTHER SOLD HIM AS A SLAVE TO _______.
3. LATER AIBAK APPOINTED HIM AS IQTADAR OF ________.
- ILBARI TRIBE.
- QUTUBDDIN AYBAK.
- GWALIOR.
WHO RECIEVED THE MANSUR, THE LETTER OF RECOGNITION, FROM THE ABBASID CALIPH IN 1229?
ILTUMISH.
HEREDITARY SUCCESSION TO DELHI SULTANATE WAS INITIATED BY?
ILTUMISH, WHEN HE NOMINATED HIS DAUGHTER RAZIYA AS HIS SUCCESSOR.
THE ARABIC COINAGE AND THE SILVER TANKA WAS INTRODUCED TO INDIA BY?
ILTUMISH.
GHIYASUDDIN BALBAN, WHO WAS ALSO KNOWN AS ULUGH KHAN, SERVED AS NAIB OR REGENT TO SULTAN_________.
NASIRUDDIN MAHMUD.
WHAT WAS CORPS OF FORTY?
ALSO KNOWN AS DAL CHALISA OR TURKAN-E-CHAHALGANI, WAS A COUNCIL OF 40 MOSTLY TURKIC SLAVE EMIRS WHO ADMINISTERED THE DELHI SULTANATE AS PER THE WISHES OF THE SULTAN. HOWEVER, THEIR NUMBER WAS NOT ALWAYS 40, BARANI CLEARLY MENTIONS THAT TURKAN-E-CHAHALGANI NUMBERED 25 AS WELL.
CORPS OF FORTY WAS INITIALLY FORMED BY?
SHAMSUDDIN ILTUMISH.
WHO DESTROYED THE CORPS OF FORTY?
GHIYASUDDIN BALBAN.
A SEPARATE MILITARY DEPARTMENT DIWAN-I-ARZ WAS ESTABLISHED BY?
GHIYASUDDIN BALBAN.
WHO INTRODUCED THE SYSTEM OF DAGH AND PREPARED HULIYA?
ALAUDDIN KHALJI INTRODUCED THE SYSTEM OF DAGH (BRANDING OF HORSES) AND PREPARED HULIYA (DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF SOLDIERS).
TERM SHAHNA-I-MANDI MEANING DURING DELHI SULTANATE?
ALAUDDIN KHALJI ESTABLISHED FOUR SEPARATE MARKETS IN DELHI. EACH MARKET WAS UNDER THE CONTROL OF A HIGH OFFICER CALLED SHAHNA-I-MANDI.
WHO CREATED DIWANI RIYASAT?
ALAUDDIN KHALJI CREATED A SEPARATE DEPARTMENT CALLED DIWANI RIYASAT UNDER AN OFFICIAL CALLED NAIB-I-RIYASAT.