Haryana Quiz: Medieval and Modern History of Haryana

He founded Hisar-e-Firoza in 1354, built its fort and palace complex with the Gujari Mahal inside, and brought canals from the Yamuna to water the town, a line the British later rebuilt as the Western Yamuna Canal.

Timur, the Turkish ruler of Samarkand, invaded India in 1398 during the reign of Nasiruddin Mahmud Tughlaq, came down the Yamuna route and sacked the Haryana towns of Tohana, Fatehabad, Sirsa, Kaithal and Hisar before taking and plundering Delhi.

Shaikh Farid was the treasurer of Jahangir, and he founded Faridabad in 1607 to protect the imperial road from Delhi to Agra, building a fort, a tank and a mosque at the spot.

After Guru Gobind Singh's death Banda Singh Bahadur led the Sikh rising of 1709 and 1710, took Samana and Sadhaura and fortified Lohgarh in the Sivalik hills of what is now Yamunanagar district, making it his capital and striking coins and a seal in the name of the Gurus.

Suraj Mal, the ablest ruler of the Bharatpur Jat house, pushed Jat power north into the Haryana plain in the middle of the eighteenth century, holding Ballabhgarh, Farrukhnagar and much of the country around Delhi.

George Thomas, a sailor from Ireland who rose in the service of Indian rulers, carved out a principality for himself in the Haryana plain towards the end of the eighteenth century and chose Hansi, with its old fort, as his capital.

The tomb of Abd-ur-Rahim, known as Sheikh Chilli, stands on a high plinth at Thanesar in Kurukshetra district, with a marble dome and a madrasa court beside it, and belongs to the reign of Shah Jahan.

The Satnamis were a sect of peasants and artisans of the Narnaul and Mewat country who rose in 1672 after a quarrel with a Mughal foot soldier grew into a general rising.

The town was laid out by its first Nawab, Faujdar Khan, in the time of the later Mughals and was named after the emperor Farrukhsiyar.

The Company and then the Crown treated the region as a punished territory after 1857: the chiefs who had joined the revolt were hanged or exiled and their estates confiscated, and in 1858 the Haryana districts were transferred from the North-Western Provinces to the province of Punjab, to be administered…