Delhi Sultanate

Question 1

Time Period of Delhi Sultanate

Answer 1

1206-1526

Slave, Khilji, Tughlaq, Sayyids, Lodis

Question 2

Muhammed Ghori

Answer 2

From Ghur, Afghan

Fought Prithviraj Chauhan
Fought Jaichanda of Kannauj

Left Qutubuddin Aibak incharge

Question 3

Who Destroyed Somnath Temple and who raided India 17 times?

Answer 3

Mahmud of Ghazni
998- 1080

Also brought Al Berini( Kitab ul Hind)

Shahramh (Firdausi)

Question 4

Longest Dynasty in Delhi Sultanate

Answer 4

Tughlaq Dynasty 1320-1414

Question 5

Mamluk

Answer 5

Means Slave

Question 6

Qutub Minar

Answer 6

In Honour of Qutub ud Din Bakhtiyar Kaki

Started by Qutubuddin Aibak
Who also made Quwwat ul Islam mosque (Triumph of Islam)
Adhai din ka jhopda

Question 7

Iltutmish

Answer 7

True Founder of Slave dynasty

IQTA system

Finished Qutub Minar

Introduced coinage in Arabic tanka and jital

Question 8

Ghiyasuddun Balban

Answer 8

Legendary for Justice
1266-1286
God’s Shadow on Earth

Question 9

Amir Khusrau

Answer 9

Ghiyasuddin’s contemporary

Question 10

Founder of Khilji Dynasty

Answer 10

Jalaluddin Khilji
1290-1320
Killed by Alauddin Khilji

Question 11

Most powerful sultan of Sultanate period

Answer 11

Alauddin Khilji
1296- 1316

First to attack South India
Malik Kafur
Rana Ratan Singh-Padmini
(Chittor)Mewar - 1303

Question 12

Who write Padmavat?

Answer 12

16th Century

Jayasi

Question 13

Founder of Agra

Answer 13

Sikander Lodi