Medieval Indian History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 11)

Kumbha had Rao Ranmal, the regent of Marwar, assassinated over the growing Rathore influence at the Mewar court.

Kumbha’s own son, Udai Singh I, murdered him at Kumbhalgarh in 1468, and was remembered afterward as Hatyara, “the Murderer.”

Man Singh I belonged to the Kachwaha Rajput clan, rulers of Amber, near present-day Jaipur.

Man Singh I commanded Akbar’s Mughal army at Haldighati in 1576, against Maharana Pratap’s Mewar forces.

After conquering Orissa, Man Singh became Mughal viceroy of Bengal in 1594-95, founding the new capital city of Akbarnagar.

Man Singh built the Govind Dev Temple at Vrindavan, and also funded work on the Kashi Vishwanath Temple and rebuilt the Jagannath Temple (which already existed) at Puri.

Prince Salim took the name Jahangir when he became emperor in 1605.

Lachit Borphukan commanded the Ahom defence and defeated a much larger Mughal force using naval guerrilla tactics on the Brahmaputra.

A Hazarika oversaw 1,000 paiks, above a Saikia (100 paiks) and a Bora (20 paiks) in the Paik system’s hierarchy.

Aurangzeb died in 1707. The succession war that followed among his sons set the pattern for weak, contested transitions of power for decades afterward.

The Sayyid Brothers made and later assassinated Emperor Farrukhsiyar. Their control over the throne earned them the nickname ‘kingmakers.’

Muhammad Shah, nicknamed ‘Rangeela,’ ruled during a period of severe decline. His reign is often used to symbolise the Mughal Empire’s drift into weak leadership.

The jagirdari crisis arose because too many nobles competed for too few land grants (jagirs), causing constant infighting and administrative breakdown.

Raja Jagat Singh moved the capital to Sultanpur, within today’s Kullu town. He also brought the Raghunath image there.

Maize reached India via Africa and Spain, becoming one of western India’s major crops by the seventeenth century. It arrived alongside other New World crops like tomatoes, potatoes, chillies, pineapple, and papaya, all introduced through the same trade routes during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is why Africa and Spain is the correct answer.

All three — papaya, pineapple, and guava — are native to the Americas. The Portuguese brought them to India via Goa in the 16th-17th centuries as part of the wider Columbian Exchange, along with chilli, potato, tobacco, and maize.

The Portuguese introduced the potato first to Africa and Arabia, then to their Asian trading posts including Goa.

Black pepper is native to India’s Malabar coast, unlike the other options, which all arrived via the Columbian Exchange after 1492.

Tobacco, cocoa, and rubber are all genuinely New World plants, domesticated in the Americas and later introduced to the Old World via the Columbian Exchange. Cotton, coffee, and wheat are all Old World crops.

Correct: 4 – 3 – 2 – 1. Ibn Battuta came first, in the 1330s. Nikitin followed, reaching India in 1469. Monserrate and Mundy were later visitors of the Mughal age.