This Madhya Pradesh quiz on Medieval Dynasties: Paramaras, Chandelas and Gonds puts 10 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
10 questions with answers and explanations
Dhar was the capital of which dynasty of Malwa?
The Paramaras ruled Malwa from Dhar from about the ninth century until Alauddin Khalji's army took the country in 1305.
Read the full explanation →The Sanskrit work Samarangana Sutradhara, a treatise on architecture, is ascribed to which ruler?
Bhoja, the Paramara king of Dhar in the first half of the eleventh century, is credited with a long list of works, of which the Samarangana Sutradhara on architecture and town planning and the Saraswatikanthabharana on poetics are the best known.
Read the full explanation →The temples of Khajuraho were built by rulers of which dynasty?
The Chandelas of Jejakabhukti built the temples of Khajuraho between roughly the middle of the tenth and the middle of the eleventh century, in the Nagara style, with clustered spires rising over a shrine set on a high platform.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest temple in the Khajuraho group?
The Kandariya Mahadeva is the largest and the most fully developed temple at Khajuraho, dedicated to Shiva and generally attributed to the reign of Vidyadhara in the first half of the eleventh century.
Read the full explanation →The Chandela ruler Paramardideva was defeated in 1182 by:
Prithviraj the Third of Ajmer and Delhi attacked the Chandela country in 1182 and defeated Paramardideva, also called Parmal, near Mahoba.
Read the full explanation →Sher Shah Suri died in 1545 during the siege of which fort?
Sher Shah Suri died at Kalinjar in 1545 when a gunpowder explosion during the siege of the fort burned him fatally.
Read the full explanation →Rani Durgavati ruled as regent over which Gond kingdom?
Garha-Katanga, the Gond kingdom around Jabalpur and Mandla, was ruled by Rani Durgavati as regent for her young son Bir Narayan after the early death of her husband Dalpat Shah.
Read the full explanation →Rani Durgavati died in 1564 fighting the army of which Mughal commander?
Asaf Khan, a commander serving Akbar, invaded Garha-Katanga in 1564. Rani Durgavati met him in the field, and when she was wounded by arrows and saw the battle turning, she took her own life rather than be captured.
Read the full explanation →Which Gond ruler of Garha-Katanga is said to have held fifty-two garhs or forts?
Sangram Shah, also called Aman Das, was the Gond ruler of Garha-Katanga in the first half of the sixteenth century and is said in tradition to have brought fifty-two garhs, or forts, under his authority, which is why the kingdom is sometimes described as a kingdom of fifty-two forts.
Read the full explanation →Tripuri, the capital of the Kalachuris, lay near which modern city of Madhya Pradesh?
Tripuri, the modern Tewar near Jabalpur, was the capital of the Kalachuris of Chedi, a dynasty whose strongest kings were Gangeyadeva and his son Karna in the eleventh century.
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