TRIBES, NOMADS AND SETTLED COMMUNITIES

Question 1

TRUE/FALSE
UNDER DELHI SULTANS AND THE MUGHALS, THE VARNA SYSTEM HIERARCHY BETWEEN SOCIAL CLASSES DECREASED.

Answer 1

FALSE.
IT GREW FURTHER.

Question 2

MANY SOCIETIES IN THE SUBCONTINENT DID NOT FOLLOW THE SOCIAL RULES AND RITUALS PRESCRIBED BY THE BRAHMANAS. NOR THEY WERE DIVIDED INTO NUMEROUS UNEQUAL CLASSES. SUCH SOCIETIES ARE OFTEN CALLED _________.

Answer 2

TRIBES.

Question 3

TRIBES IN PUNJAB DURING THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURY?

Answer 3

KHOKHAR TRIBE WAS VERY INFLUENTIAL.
LATER, THE GAKKHARS BECAME MORE IMPORTANT.

Question 4

KAMAL KHAN GAKKHAR, THE CHIEF OF GAKKHARS WAS MADE A NOBLE (MANSABDAR) BY WHICH EMPEROR?

Answer 4

EMPEROR AKBAR.

Question 5

TRIBALS FROM MULTAN AND SIND BEFORE MUGHALS SUBDUED THEM?

Answer 5

LANGAHS AND ARGHUNS DOMINATED EXTENSIVE REGIONS BEFORE THEY WERE SUBDUED BY THE MUGHALS.

Question 6

WHO WERE BALOCHIS AND GADDIS?

Answer 6

1. BALOCHIS WERE ANOTHER LARGE AND POWERFUL TRIBE IN THE NORTHWEST. THEY WERE DIVIDED INTO MANY SMALLER CLANS UNDER DIFFERENT CHIEFS.
2. IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYA LIVED THE SHEPHERD TRIBE OF GADDIS.

Question 7

RAJA MAN SINGH, FAMOUS GENERAL OF AKBAR ATTACKED AND DEFEATED THE _______ IN 1591.

Answer 7

CHEROS TRIBE.
IN MANY AREAS OF PRESENT DAY BIHAR AND JHARKHAND, CHERO CHIEFDOMS HAD EMERGED BY THE TWELFTH CENTURY.

Question 8

AKBAR COMPLETELY SUBDUED THE CHEROS TRIBE?
TRUE/FALSE.

Answer 8

AFTER THE BATTLE OF 1591, A LARGE AMOUNT OF BOOTY WAS TAKEN FROM THEM, BUT THEY WERE NOT ENTIRELY SUBDUED.

Question 9

UNDER_______, MUGHAL FORCES CAPTURED MANY CHERO FORTRESSES AND SUBJUGATED THE TRIBE.

Answer 9

AURANGZEB.

Question 10

MUNDAS AND SANTAL TRIBES LIVED IN?

Answer 10

ORISSA AND BENGAL.

Question 11

THE MAHARASHTRA HIGHLANDS AND KARNATAKA WERE HOME TO_____,______ AND NUMEROUS OTHER TRIBES.

Answer 11

KOLIS, BERADS.
KOLIS ALSO LIVED IN MANY AREAS OF GUJARAT.

Question 12

BANJARAS CARAVAN WAS CALLED?

Answer 12

TANDA.

Question 13

SULTAN _______ USED THE BANJARAS TO TRANSPORT GRAIN TO THE CITY MARKETS.
EMPEROR ______ WROTE IN HIS MEMOIRS THAT THE BANJARAS CARRIED GRAIN ON THEIR BULLOCKS FROM DIFFERENT AREAS AND SOLD IT IN TOWNS.

Answer 13

1 ALAUDDIN KHALJI.
2 JAHANGIR WROTE IN HIS MEMOIRS.

Question 14

WHAT WERE ITINERANT GROUPS?

Answer 14

ITINERANT GROUPS, SUCH AS CRAFTSPERSONS, PEDLARS AND ENTERTAINERS TRAVEL FROM PLACE TO PLACE PRACTICING THEIR DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONS.

Question 15

_____, AN ENGLISH TRADER WHO CAME TO INDIA DURING THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, HAS DESCRIBED THE BANJARAS.

Answer 15

PETER MUNDY.

Question 16

WHICH TRIBE MADE THE BRONZE CROCODILE?

Answer 16

KUTIYA KOND TRIBE, ORISSA.

Question 17

A TWELFTH CENTURY INSCRIPTION FROM UYYAKONDAN UDAIYAR, IN TIRUCHIRAPALLI TALUKA (IN PRESENT DAY TAMIL NADU), DESCRIBES THE DELIBERATIONS IN A________ OF BRAHMANAS.
THEY DELIBERATED ON THE STATUS OF A GROUP KNOWN AS __________.

Answer 17

SABHA.
RATHKARAS (CHARIOT MAKERS).

Question 18

THE RISE OF THE_______ CLANS TO THE POSITION OF RULERS SET AN EXAMPLE FOR THE TRIBAL PEOPLE TO FOLLOW.

Answer 18

THE RAJPUT.

Question 19

GONDS LIVED IN A VAST FORESTED REGION CALLED?

Answer 19

GONDWANA OR COUNTRY INHABITED BY GONDS.

Question 20

GONDS PRACTICED ________ CULTIVATION.
EACH CLAN HAS ITS OWN RAJA OR ____.

Answer 20

SHIFTING, RAI.

Question 21

TRUE/FALSE.
THE AKBAR NAMA, A HISTORY OF AKBAR’S REIGN, MENTIONS THE GOND KINGDOM OF GARHA KATANGA THAT HAD 70,000 VILLAGES.

Answer 21

TRUE.

Question 22

ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM OF GARHA KATANGA?

Answer 22

1. THE ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM OF THESE KINGDOMS WAS BECOMING CENTRALIZED.
2. KINGDOM WAS DIVIDED INTO GARHS.
3. EACH GARH WAS CONTROLLED BY A PARTICULAR GOND CLAN.
4. GARH WAS FURTHER DIVIDED INTO UNITS OF 84 VILLAGES CALLED CHAURASI.
5. THE CHAURASI WAS SUBDIVIDED INTO BARHOTS WHICH WERE MADE UP OF 12 VILLAGES EACH.

Question 23

BRAHMANS RECIEVED LAND GRANTS FROM THE GOND RAJAS AND BECAME MORE INFLUENTIAL. THE GOND CHIEFS NOW WISHED TO BE RECOGNIZED AS RAJPUTS. SO, AMAN DAS, THE GOND RAJA OF GARHA KATANGA, ASSUMED THE TITLE OF_________.

Answer 23

SANGRAM SHAH.

Question 24

AMAN DAS, THE GOND RAJA OF GARHA KATANGA. HIS SON,________, MARRIED PRINCESS ________, THE DAUGHTER OF ____________.

Answer 24

DALPAT.
DURGAWATI, THE DAUGHTER OF SALBAHAN, THE CHANDEL RAJPUT OF MAHOBA.

Question 25

TRUE/FALSE
KINGDOM OF GARHA KATANGA BECAME EXTENSIVE UNDER THE RULE OF DALPAT.

Answer 25

FALSE.
DALPAT, HOWEVER DIED EARLY. RANI DURGAWATI WAS VERY CAPABLE, AND STARTED RULING ON THE BEHALF OF HER FIVE YEAR OLD SON, BIR NARAIN.
UNDER HER, THE KINGDOM BECAME MORE EXTENSIVE.

Question 26

MUGHALS ATTACK ON GARHA KATANGA. WHEN, BY WHOM AND OUTCOME?

Answer 26

IN 1565, THE MUGHAL FORCES UNDER ASAF KHAN (NOBLEMAN IN AKBAR’S KINGDOM) ATTACKED GARHA KATANGA.
A STRONG RESISTANCE WAS PUT UP BY RANI DURGAWATI.
SHE WAS DEFEATED AND PREFERRED TO DIE RATHER THAN SURRENDER.
HER SON, TOO, DIED FIGHTING SOON AFTER.

Question 27

WHAT DID MUGHALS DID AFTER THEY ANNEXED GARHA KATANGA?

Answer 27

MUGHALS ANNEXED PART OF THE KINGDOM AND GRANTED THE REST TO CHANDRA SHAH, AN UNCLE OF BIR NARAIN.
DESPITE THE FALL OF GARHA KATANGA, THE GOND KINGDOMS SURVIVED FOR SOME TIME.
HOWEVER, THEY BECAME MUCH WEAKER AND LATER STRUGGLED UNSUCCESSFULLY AGAINST THE STRONGER BUNDELAS AND MARATHAS.

Question 28

TERM BHUIYANS MEANING?

Answer 28

LANDLORDS.

Question 29

THE AHOMS MIGRATED TO THE BRAHMAPUTRA VALLEY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. THEY CREATED A NEW STATE BY SUPPRESSING THE OLD SYSTEM OF THE__________.

Answer 29

BHUIYANS (LANDLORDS).

Question 30

DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY AHOMS ANNEXED THE KINGDOMS OF________ AND OF __________ AND SUBJUGATED MANY OTHER TRIBES.

Answer 30

CHHUTIYAS (1523) AND OF KOCH-HAJO (1581).

Question 31

DID AHOMS USED FIREARMS?

Answer 31

YES THEY USED FIREARMS AS EARLY AS THE 1530s.
BY THE 1660s THEY COULD EVEN MAKE HIGH QUALITY GUNPOWDER AND CANNONS.

Question 32

IN 1662, THE MUGHALS UNDER________ ATTACKED THE AHOM KINGDOM.
RESULT?

Answer 32

MIR JUMLA UNDER (AURANGZEB).
AHOMS WERE DEFEATED. BUT THE DIRECT MUGHAL CONTROL OVER THE REGION COULD NOT LAST LONG.

Question 33

WHAT WERE PAIKS?

Answer 33

AHOM STATE DEPENDENT UPON FORCED LABOUR. THOSE FORCED TO WORK FOR THE STATE WERE CALLED PAIKS.
EACH VILLAGE HAD TO SEND A NUMBER OF PAIKS BY ROTATION.

Question 34

AHOMS ALSO INTRODUCED NEW METHODS OF _______ CULTIVATION.
AHOMS SOCIETY WAS DIVIDED INTO CLANS OR_______.

Answer 34

RICE CULTIVATION.
KHELS.

Question 35

THERE WERE A LOT OF ARTISANS IN AHOM KINGDOM?

Answer 35

FALSE.
THERE WERE VERY FEW CASTES OF ARTISANS, SO ARTISANS IN THE AHOM AREAS CAME FROM THE ADJOINING KINGDOMS.

Question 36

FUNCTION OF KHEL IN AHOM KINGDOM?

Answer 36

KHEL OR CLAN OFTEN CONTROLLED SEVERAL VILLAGES.
THE PEASANT WAS GIVEN LAND BY HIS VILLAGE COMMUNITY.
EVEN THE KING COULD NOT TAKE IT AWAY WITHOUT THE COMMUNITY’S CONSENT.

Question 37

AHOMS AND INFLUENCE OF BRAHMANAS?

Answer 37

ORIGINALLY, THE AHOMS WORSHIPPED THEIR OWN TRIBAL GODS.
DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, HOWEVER, THE INFLUENCE OF BRAHMANAS INCREASED.

Question 38

AHOM KINGS COMPLETELY GAVE UP THEIR TRADITIONAL BELIEFS AFTER ADOPTING HINDUISM.
TRUE/FALSE.

Answer 38

FALSE.
IN THE REIGN OF SIB SINGH (1714-1744), HINDUISM BECAME THE PREDOMINANT RELIGION.
BUT THE AHOM KINGS DID NOT COMPLETELY GIVE UP THEIR TRADITIONAL BELIEFS AFTER ADOPTING HINDUISM.

Question 39

HISTORICAL WORKS OF AHOMS IS CALLED?

Answer 39

BURANJIS.
WRITTEN FIRST IN AHOM LANGUAGE AND THEN IN ASSAMESE.

Question 40

MONGOLS WERE THE BEST KNOWN PASTORAL AND HUNTER GATHERER TRIBE IN HISTORY.
TRUE/FALSE.

Answer 40

TRUE.

Question 41

PURANAS ALSO LAID DOWN THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR DEVOTEES TO RECIEVE THE GRACE OF GOD REGARDLESS OF THEIR CASTE.
TRUE/FALSE.

Answer 41

TRUE.

Question 42

THE IDEA OF BHAKTI BECAME SO POPULAR THAT EVEN BUDDHISTS AND JAINAS ADOPTED THESE BELIEFS.
TRUE/FALSE.

Answer 42

TRUE.

Question 43

A NEW KIND OF BHAKTI IN NORTH INDIA- NAYANARS AND ALVARS.
TRUE/FALSE.

Answer 43

FALSE.
IT WAS IN SOUTH INDIA.

Question 44

WHO WERE NAYANARS?

Answer 44

SAINTS DEVOTED TO SHIVA.