Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 115

Akbar began building Fatehpur Sikri near Agra from 1571, naming it after his victory in Gujarat, and it served as his capital for roughly fourteen years before the court returned to Agra and later moved to Lahore.

The Kachhwaha ruler Sawai Jai Singh II moved his capital down from the hill fort of Amer and founded Jaipur in 1727, laying it out on a grid of nine rectangular blocks with the help of the scholar and planner Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, which makes it the first planned city of…

In Gujarati be garh means two forts, and Mahmud took both the hill fort of Girnar in Junagadh and the fort of Champaner in the east of his kingdom, founding the towns of Mustafabad and Muhammadabad beside them.

He patented the flying shuttle in England in 1733. The flying shuttle let a single weaver send the thread across the loom by pulling a cord, so wider cloth could be woven much faster.

The Gujarat sultan Ahmad Shah I founded Ahmedabad in 1411 near the older settlement of Asaval and Karnavati, and the city became the capital of the Gujarat Sultanate and a great centre of textile trade; the Bhadra fort and the Jama Masjid date from this period.

The poligars were military chiefs of the Tirunelveli and Madurai region who held land in return for keeping troops.

He abolished the jizya, recalled the Brahmins who had fled, had the Mahabharata and Kalhana's Rajatarangini translated into Persian, and settled artisans from Samarkand who introduced paper-making, shawl weaving and carpet weaving.

The Nawab of Junagadh, Mahabat Khan III, announced accession to Pakistan in September 1947 although his small state in Kathiawar was surrounded by Indian territory and had a largely Hindu population.

Firoz Shah Tughlaq was the greatest city builder of the Sultanate. He founded Firozabad on the Yamuna in Delhi, where the Firoz Shah Kotla stands, and outside Delhi he laid out Hisar, known as Hissar-Firoza, along with Fatehabad, Firozpur and Jaunpur, the last named in memory of Muhammad bin Tughlaq…

Gopala founded the Pala dynasty in Bengal in the middle of the eighth century, and the Khalimpur copper plate records that he was raised to the throne by the chiefs to end a long spell of disorder known as matsyanyaya, the rule of the fish.

The son of Dilawar Khan Ghuri moved the seat of government from the plains town of Dhar to the hill fort of Mandu, renamed it Shadiabad, the city of joy, and built the Jama Mosque there; his own tomb at Mandu is the first building in India faced entirely in…

Saadat Khan, who held the title Burhan-ul-Mulk, was appointed governor of Awadh in 1722 and converted the governorship into a hereditary principality, keeping the outward forms of allegiance to the Mughal emperor while ruling independently.

The two brothers of the Sangama family founded the city of Vijayanagara on the Tungabhadra in 1336 and with it the Vijayanagara empire, which lasted until the defeat at Talikota in 1565; the ruins at Hampi in Karnataka are a World Heritage Site.

Defeated by Yashwantrao Holkar at Poona, the Peshwa fled to British protection and signed the Treaty of Bassein on 31 December 1802, accepting a subsidiary alliance under which a British force was stationed in his territory and his foreign relations passed to the Company.

He brought the three divisions of Bengal under one authority in 1342, founded the dynasty named after him, took the title Shah-i-Bangalah and held off Firoz Shah Tughlaq's two invasions.

At Surat the two wings of the Congress quarrelled over the choice of president and over how far the boycott and swadeshi programme should be carried; the session broke up in disorder, Rash Behari Ghosh was declared president, and the Congress stayed divided until 1916.

Harshavardhana of the Pushyabhuti or Vardhana dynasty began his reign at Thanesar in Haryana and, after the death of his brother-in-law Grahavarman of the Maukhari house, united the two kingdoms and made Kannauj on the Ganga his capital around the early seventh century.

The founder of the Lodi dynasty spent much of his reign subduing the Sharqi kingdom, defeated Hussain Shah Sharqi, who fled to Bengal, and annexed Jaunpur in 1484.

After defeating Humayun at Chausa and Kannauj, Sher Shah Suri refounded Patna in 1541 as a fortified administrative and commercial town on the ruins of ancient Pataliputra, recognising the strategic value of the site on the Ganga.

The great exponent of Krishna bhakti in Bengal lived during the reign of Alauddin Hussain Shah, who patronised Bengali literature and under whose rule Vaishnava devotion spread widely in the province.