Deck 4: Mughal Empire: Language, Revenue Systems, and Administration

Question 1

Which Mughal is credited with prohibiting sati unless the widow herself, of her own free will, persistently desired it?

A) akbar
B) babur
C) humayun
D) jahangir

Answer 1

akbar

Question 2

Who among the following Englishmen was given the title of 'Khan' by Jahangir?

A) thomas roe
B) ralph fitch
C) hawkins
D) newbery

Answer 2

hawkins

Question 3

What was duaspa-sihaspa and who introduced it?

A) a revenue system introduced by akbar
B) a decorative method introduced by shah jahan
C) a special rank having higher sawar than zat introduced by aurangzeb
D) a sub rank of sawar introduced by jahangir.

Answer 3

a sub rank of sawar introduced by jahangir.

Question 4

Who were the harkaras of the Mughal period?

A) enforcers of public morals
B) news writers and reporters
C) secret letter writers and informers
D) spies and special couriers

Question 5

What was Jajmani system of the Mughal period?

A) a revenue system in which revenues of different units of land were assigned to officials in lieu of salaries.
B) an administrative system in which ranks in terms of numbers were assigned to nobles, military commanders and other prominent people for placing them in the official hierarchy.
C) a reciprocal system that existed in rural india between the peasantry and other occupational groups.
D) a commercial system that developed in urban india for facilitating commercial transactions on a large scale.

Question 6

Which of the following varieties of land during Mughal period did not yield any land revenue to the state?

A) khalisa
B) jagir
C) sayur ghal
D) raiyati

Question 7

What portion of actual produce was fixed as the demand of the state under the zabti?

A) one-half
B) one-third
C) one-fourth
D) one-fifth

Question 8

Akbar's enlightened religious policy was based on his philosophy of sulh-i-kul which meant

A) universal tolerance
B) universal peace
C) enlightened benevolence
D) unity of godhead

Question 9

The police chief of a city was called

A) qazi
B) faujdar
C) kotwal
D) qilahdar

Question 10

To assist the Maratha king, there was a council of state ministers known as

A) ashtadigvajas
B) navaratnins
C) ashtapradhaan
D) qilahdar

Question 11

Under Maratha administration who was Dabir?

A) prime minister
B) chief justice
C) foreign secretary
D) superintendent

Question 12

Shivaji was born at

A) nasik
B) pune
C) chittor
D) shivneri

Question 13

Dalals were

A) merchants
B) brokers
C) travellers
D) in charge of inns

Question 14

Who wrote Ta'arikh-i-Firuzshahi

A) amir khusru
B) ziauddin barani
C) badayuni
D) abdur razzak

Question 15

During the Mughal period the Karwanis or Nayakas were

A) village heads
B) merchants
C) court poets
D) scribs