Ahilyabai Holkar ruled the Holkar state from which town on the Narmada?
- A.Indore
- B.Maheshwar
- C.Ujjain
- D.Mandsaur
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Maheshwar. Ahilyabai, the widow of Khande Rao Holkar, governed the state from 1767 to 1795 and made Maheshwar on the north bank of the Narmada her capital, building the fort palace, the ghats and the temples that still stand there. The town's handloom weaving, from which the Maheshwari sari takes its name, grew under her patronage.
Option A is wrong because Indore, though the Holkar capital of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, became the settled seat only after the Treaty of Mandsaur in 1818. Option C is wrong because Ujjain on the Shipra was the early Scindia centre, not a Holkar capital. Option D is wrong because Mandsaur is remembered for the treaty of 1818 and is not a capital at all, which is why it appears as a distractor here.
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Practice Questions
View allWho founded the Holkar state of Indore?
- A.Malhar Rao Holkar
- B.Yashwant Rao Holkar
- C.Ranoji Scindia
- D.Tukoji Rao Holkar
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Malhar Rao was a cavalry commander in the service of Peshwa Baji Rao I during the Maratha conquest of Malwa, and in 1733 he was granted territory there, which became the Holkar state.
Read the full explanation →The Kashi Vishwanath temple at Varanasi was rebuilt in 1780 by which ruler?
- A.Ahilyabai Holkar
- B.Rani Durgavati
- C.Sultan Jahan Begum
- D.Rani Lakshmibai
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The temple building and repair that Ahilyabai carried out from Maheshwar reached far beyond her own state, and the rebuilding of the Kashi Vishwanath temple at Varanasi in 1780 is the work most often asked.
Read the full explanation →Which Maratha chief became the effective master of Delhi and the protector of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II after the third battle of Panipat?
- A.Mahadji Scindia
- B.Malhar Rao Holkar
- C.Daulat Rao Scindia
- D.Raghunath Rao
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After the Maratha defeat at Panipat in 1761, Mahadji Scindia of Gwalior rebuilt Maratha strength in the north, occupied Delhi, took the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II under his protection and held the real authority at the imperial court.
Read the full explanation →The Scindias moved their capital from Ujjain to which city?
- A.Indore
- B.Gwalior
- C.Bhopal
- D.Rewa
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The Scindia family's early centre in Malwa was Ujjain on the Shipra, and under Daulat Rao Scindia the seat of the state was moved to Gwalior, where the camp settlement of Lashkar below the hill fort grew into the modern city.
Read the full explanation →The Treaty of Mandsaur of 1818 was signed between the British and which ruling house?
- A.The Scindias of Gwalior
- B.The Holkars of Indore
- C.The Nawabs of Bhopal
- D.The Baghels of Rewa
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At the close of the third Anglo-Maratha war the Holkar state signed the Treaty of Mandsaur in 1818, accepting British protection and a subsidiary relationship, after which Indore settled into its position as a princely state of central India under the Central India Agency.
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