What is the main problem historians identify with the older Hindu-Muslim-British scheme of periodising Indian history?

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1. Al-Idrisis 1154 CE world map, unlike a 1720 French map of India, is notable for which feature?

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It places south at the top of the map

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It shows India divided into modern states

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It was drawn using satellite measurements

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It omits India from the map entirely

Question 2

2. Chronicler Ziyauddin Barani is significant to historians of medieval India chiefly because:

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He was the first to use the term Hindustan

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He commissioned the Balban prashasti

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He wrote two different versions of his chronicle, the Tarikh-i-Firozshahi

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He translated the Tabula Rogeriana into Persian

Question 3

3. Which of these correctly matches a medieval writer to their sense of the word Hindustan?

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Amir Khusrau used it for the land where Hindavi was spoken

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Babur used it only for the Punjab and Haryana region

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Minhaj-i-Siraj used it for the entire subcontinents geography and fauna

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Ziyauddin Barani used it to mean a single unified nation

Question 4

4. In medieval Sanskrit and Persian usage, a term such as pardesi or ajnabi most precisely meant:

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A person from another country only

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A person belonging to a lower jati

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