Practice Delhi Sultanate – GK Quiz with Answers – Level 3

Consider the following statements about the early Turkish rulers of the Delhi Sultanate:

1. The histories called tarikh were written in Persian, mostly by learned men who lived in cities.

2. The Forty were Turkish slave officers of Iltutmish who decided succession after him, and Balban was one of them.

3. The muqti sent the entire revenue of his iqta to the Sultan's treasury and received a separate cash salary.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Arrange the following events in chronological order:

1. Ibn Battuta reaches Sindh

2. Iltutmish defeats Yalduz at Tarain

3. Khizr Khan begins the Sayyid dynasty

4. Raziyya becomes Sultan

Select the correct chronological order.

Match the departments of the Delhi Sultanate with the officers who headed them:

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Consider the following statements about the southern campaigns of Alauddin Khalji's reign:

1. The campaigns were commanded by his general Malik Kafur.

2. Malik Kafur annexed Warangal and brought it directly under the Sultanate's administration.

3. The campaigns were described by Amir Khusrau in Khazain-ul Futuh.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Match the following structures with the ruler or reign they are associated with:

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Consider the following statements about Muhammad Tughluq:

1. He built a new garrison town for his large standing army.

2. His token currency of cheap metal had to be withdrawn.

3. He appointed the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta as qazi of Delhi.

Which of the statements given above is/are NOT correct?

Consider the following statements about the provincial administration of the Delhi Sultanate:

1. In the fourteenth century, provinces were divided into smaller units called shiqs, headed by shiqdars.

2. In the Afghan period, each pargana was made up of several sarkars.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about building styles in the Delhi Sultanate:

1. Trabeate and corbelled refer to the same technique of placing a beam across columns, as seen in the screen of the Quwwat al-Islam mosque.

2. In the arcuate style, the keystone of a true arch transfers the weight above it to the base of the arch, as seen in the Alai Darwaza.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about the early years of the Delhi Sultanate:

1. Qutbuddin Aibak was a slave of Muhammad Ghori, but he was also Ghori's viceroy and army commander in India.

2. Aibak shifted the capital of the Sultanate from Lahore to Delhi.

3. Qubacha drowned in the Indus after his defeat by Iltutmish.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. Raziyya was the daughter of Qutbuddin Aibak.

2. Minhaj-i Siraj regarded Raziyya as more able and qualified than all her brothers.

3. Balban introduced grand court ceremonials based on Persian (Sasanian) traditions.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?