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Slice the eighteenth-century termsRead the answer and worked solution →Sikh or MarathaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the state foundersRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Eighteenth-century bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The Saliya weavers of Thanjavur and which nearby town produced cloth for temple flags?Read the answer and worked solution →The sthapatis making bronze idols and bell-metal lamps worked at:Read the answer and worked solution →Chola bronze statues were made using which technique?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhillasvamin, a temple around which a town grew, is modern Bhilsa or:Read the answer and worked solution →Which town was the Chauhan capital in the twelfth century and later a Mughal suba headquarters?Read the answer and worked solution →The market centre in small medieval towns, later called mandi, was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Market streets lined with shops, later called haat, were known as:Read the answer and worked solution →The most famous south Indian trade guilds from the eighth century were the Manigramam and:Read the answer and worked solution →Gujarati traders who dealt with Red Sea and Gulf ports included Hindu Baniyas and Muslim:Read the answer and worked solution →Jean Baptiste Tavernier estimated the annual horse trade at Kabul at:Read the answer and worked solution →The inlay work in copper and silver famous from Bidar is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Murshidabad became the capital of Bengal in:Read the answer and worked solution →Hampi lies in the basin of the Krishna and which river?Read the answer and worked solution →The Vijayanagara Empire was founded in:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Portuguese traveller described the fortified city of Hampi in the sixteenth century?Read the answer and worked solution →Vijayanagara was defeated in 1565 by the:Read the answer and worked solution →Surat, the emporium of western trade, was also called the gate to:Read the answer and worked solution →According to Ovington in 1689, about how many ships were anchored at Surat on average?Read the answer and worked solution →The English East India Company shifted its headquarters from Surat to Bombay in:Read the answer and worked solution →The fort at Masulipatnam on the Krishna delta was built by the:Read the answer and worked solution →Aurangzeb annexed Golconda in:Read the answer and worked solution →Vasco da Gama reached Calicut in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the temple townsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Surat wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the trading-town datesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the eighteenth-century terms

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Does not match the category
  1. Isobar
  2. Sonnet
  3. Fresco
  4. Nebula
Matches the category
  1. Ijaradar
  2. Misl
  3. Chauth
  4. Rakhi
  5. Peshwa
Instructions
Slice only the political terms of the period. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 10, Eighteenth-Century Political Formations._

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Sikh or Maratha

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Upper category
Sikh
Lower category
Maratha
Items
  1. Category
    Sikh
    Item
    Khalsa
  2. Category
    Sikh
    Item
    Misl
  3. Category
    Sikh
    Item
    Rakhi
  4. Category
    Sikh
    Item
    Lahore
  5. Category
    Maratha
    Item
    Peshwa
  6. Category
    Maratha
    Item
    Chauth
  7. Category
    Maratha
    Item
    Poona
  8. Category
    Maratha
    Item
    Shivaji
Instructions
Send each clue to the Sikh track or the Maratha track.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 10, Eighteenth-Century Political Formations._

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Sort the state founders

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Items
  1. Group
    Hyderabad
    Item
    Asaf Jah
  2. Group
    Hyderabad
    Item
    Nizam
  3. Group
    Hyderabad
    Item
    Deccan
  4. Group
    Awadh
    Item
    Saadat Khan
  5. Group
    Awadh
    Item
    Rohilkhand
  6. Group
    Awadh
    Item
    1722
  7. Group
    Bengal
    Item
    Murshid Quli
  8. Group
    Bengal
    Item
    Alivardi
  9. Group
    Bengal
    Item
    Jagat Seth
Groups
  1. Item
    Hyderabad
  2. Item
    Awadh
  3. Item
    Bengal
Instructions
Drop each clue onto Hyderabad, Awadh or Bengal.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 10, Eighteenth-Century Political Formations._

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