Medieval Indian History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 6)

Lakhi Shah Vanjara carried the Guru’s body away hidden under hay and cremated it by setting his own home alight; Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib now marks the spot.

Guru Tegh Bahadur is remembered as ‘Hind Di Chadar,’ the Shield of India, for sacrificing his life to defend another community’s religious freedom.

Kashmiri Pandits appealed to Guru Tegh Bahadur after the Mughal governor of Kashmir began forcing conversions to Islam under Aurangzeb’s orders.

He earned the name for his bravery fighting beside Guru Har Gobind at the Battle of Kartarpur in 1635.

Tyag Mal was the youngest son of Guru Har Gobind, the sixth Sikh Guru, and later became the ninth Guru himself.

Both were founded by former Delhi Sultanate governors, within a decade of Timur’s 1398 invasion.

Timur knew that cavalry horses feared elephants, so he protected his own cavalry with trenches first.

Guru Har Gobind passed over his eldest grandson Dhir Mal and chose the younger Har Rai, then 14, to succeed him as the seventh Guru.

The Battle of Kartarpur, fought on 25 April 1635, was the last major engagement between Guru Har Gobind’s forces and the Mughal army.

Jahangir decreed only those holding the Guru’s robe could leave with him, so a special robe with 52 tassels was made, letting all 52 rajas walk free together — commemorated today as Bandi Chhor Divas.

Guru Har Gobind founded the Akal Takht (‘Throne of the Timeless One’) in Amritsar in 1606, physically embodying the Miri-Piri doctrine alongside Harmandir Sahib.

The two swords represented Miri, temporal power, and Piri, spiritual authority, founding the doctrine that would define Sikh institutional identity going forward.

Akbar’s general Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khana defeated him for good in January 1584, ending the Muzaffarid line.

The alliance turned deadly: Bahadur Shah was killed aboard a Portuguese ship near Diu, in 1537.

‘Begada’ literally means ‘two forts’ in Gujarati; he later built Champaner as a new capital, at Pavagadh’s base.

Correct: Akbar. One history says Zain-ul-Abidin may be regarded as the Akbar of Kashmir. He abolished the jizya and brought exiled Pandits home. Akbar is the model of tolerance among the Mughals.

Correct as the key states. Kota Rani held power for only fifty days after Udayana Deva. Shah Mir then declared himself king. One account says he forced her to marry him and locked her away. Another says she stabbed herself. The key uses 1339. The sources give 1343 or 1346, so the year is disputed.

His queen, Rani Roopmati, took her own life on hearing of Mandu’s fall rather than be captured.

Centuries later, Shah Jahan reportedly sent an architect to study it before designing the Taj Mahal.

‘Shadiabad’ means ‘city of joy’; Mandu remained the sultanate’s capital for the rest of its history.

After Bahlul Lodi’s victories forced Husain Shah Sharqi to flee in 1479, it was his successor Sikandar Lodi who completed the annexation of Jaunpur.

Husain Shah Sharqi was a noted patron and practitioner credited with developing Khayal, and composed the raga Jaunpuri, named after his capital.

Sharqi-style mosques are marked by huge sloping pylons and rectangular prayer halls, notably without minarets.

Ibrahim Shah Sharqi (r. 1402-1440) made Jaunpur a major centre of learning and art, earning it the title Shiraz-i-Hind.

Malik Sarwar, a former wazir of the Tughlaq court, declared independence in 1394 amid the Delhi Sultanate’s disintegration and took the title Malik-us-Sharq.