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Who wrote the Badshah Nama, the official history of Shah Jahan's reign?Read the answer and worked solution →The Nawab of Awadh gifted the illustrated Badshah Nama in 1799 to which king?Read the answer and worked solution →Abu'l Fazl's idea of Divine Light, farr-i izadi, drew on which Iranian sufi?Read the answer and worked solution →Akbar abolished the pilgrimage tax in 1563 and which tax in 1564?Read the answer and worked solution →Jahangir's Chain of Justice was made of pure gold and contained how many bells?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1585 Akbar shifted the capital from Fatehpur Sikri to which city?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did Shah Jahan's court move from Agra to the new capital Shahjahanabad?Read the answer and worked solution →Which English envoy of James I shocked the Mughal court by demanding a chair?Read the answer and worked solution →Akbar introduced the practice of appearing on a balcony each morning for public darshan. The balcony was the:Read the answer and worked solution →A mansabdar's rank had two numbers. Zat showed position and salary. What did sawar show?Read the answer and worked solution →The first Jesuit mission reached Akbar's court at Fatehpur Sikri in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Mughal chroniclesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the court wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Mughal yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the ministersRead the answer and worked solution →Akbar or Shah JahanRead the answer and worked solution →Who wrote itRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Mughal court bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in:Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi's 1917 satyagraha in Champaran, Bihar, was to inspire which group against the plantation system?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1918 Gandhi organised a satyagraha among cotton mill workers in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Rowlatt Act of 1919 allowed detention of political prisoners without trial for:Read the answer and worked solution →The Jallianwalla Bagh massacre under General Dyer took place on:Read the answer and worked solution →The Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Non-Cooperation programme was adopted at the Congress session at Nagpur in:Read the answer and worked solution →In Madras, which party contested the council elections that others boycotted during Non-Cooperation?Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1921 and 1922 the import of foreign cloth fell from Rs 102 crore to:Read the answer and worked solution →The Awadh peasant movement was led by which sanyasi who had been an indentured labourer in Fiji?Read the answer and worked solution →The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 against enhanced land revenue was led by:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Who wrote the Badshah Nama, the official history of Shah Jahan's reign?

  1. Abdul Qadir Badauni
  2. Abdul Hamid Lahori
  3. Abu'l Fazl Allami
  4. Gulbadan Begum
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Correct answer: B. Abdul Hamid Lahori

1. Lahori was a pupil of Abu'l Fazl. 2. He wrote the first two daftars of ten lunar years each. 3. Waris chronicled the third decade. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 9, Kings and Chronicles: The Mughal Courts._

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The Nawab of Awadh gifted the illustrated Badshah Nama in 1799 to which king?

  1. James I
  2. Charles II
  3. George III
  4. Louis XIV
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Correct answer: C. George III

1. Gifting manuscripts was a diplomatic custom. 2. It went to King George III in 1799. 3. It is kept at Windsor Castle. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 9, Kings and Chronicles: The Mughal Courts._

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Abu'l Fazl's idea of Divine Light, farr-i izadi, drew on which Iranian sufi?

  1. Muinuddin Chishti
  2. Nizamuddin Auliya
  3. Bahauddin Zakariyya
  4. Shihabuddin Suhrawardi
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Correct answer: D. Shihabuddin Suhrawardi

1. The Mongol queen Alanqua legend also carried Divine Light. 2. Suhrawardi, who died in 1191, first developed the idea. 3. Emperors were later painted with halos. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 9, Kings and Chronicles: The Mughal Courts._

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