Muhammad Ghori belonged to which dynasty?
- A.Yamini dynasty
- B.Ghurid dynasty
- C.Umayyad dynasty
- D.Khalji dynasty
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The correct answer is B, the Ghurid dynasty. Muizzuddin Muhammad bin Sam, called Muhammad Ghori, came from Ghur in central Afghanistan, and the Ghurids displaced the house of Ghazni before turning on northern India. Option A is wrong because the Yamini dynasty is the house of Ghazni, to which Sabuktigin and his son Mahmud of Ghazni belonged, and it was Ghori who ended its rule in Punjab by taking Lahore in 1186. Option C is wrong because the Umayyad Caliphate sent the Arab expedition to Sindh in 712 under Muhammad bin Qasim, five centuries earlier. Option D is wrong because the Khalji dynasty ruled at Delhi from 1290, almost a century after Ghori, and belongs to the Sultanate rather than to the invasions. Ghori is also asked by his proper name, Muizzuddin Muhammad bin Sam, and his elder brother Ghiyasuddin ruled at Ghur while he campaigned in India.
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View allWho led the Arab conquest of Sindh in 712 CE?
- A.Hajjaj bin Yusuf
- B.Muhammad bin Qasim
- C.Mahmud of Ghazni
- D.Muhammad Ghori
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He was the young Arab commander sent into Sindh in 712 CE, who captured Debal, crossed the Indus and defeated and killed Dahir at the battle of Raor, and then took Brahmanabad, Alor and Multan.
Read the full explanation →Which ruler of Sindh was defeated and killed by the Arabs at the battle of Raor?
- A.Dahir
- B.Jaipal
- C.Anandpal
- D.Jaichand
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He was the Brahman ruler of Sindh who refused to compensate the Arabs for the ships plundered by the pirates of Debal, and he fell fighting Muhammad bin Qasim at Raor in 712 CE, after which Sindh passed under Umayyad rule.
Read the full explanation →The Chach Nama is the chief source for which event of Indian history?
- A.The raids of Mahmud of Ghazni
- B.The Arab conquest of Sindh
- C.The second battle of Tarain
- D.The founding of the Slave dynasty
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The Chach Nama, a Persian translation of an older Arabic account, narrates the rule of the Chach family of Sindh, the attack on the Arab ships at Debal and the campaign of Muhammad bin Qasim, and remains the main source for 712 CE.
Read the full explanation →Mahmud of Ghazni plundered the Somnath temple in Gujarat in which year?
- A.1001 CE
- B.1008 CE
- C.1018 CE
- D.1025 CE
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The raid on the Somnath temple on the coast of Saurashtra was the richest of all the expeditions of Mahmud of Ghazni and the one for which he is most remembered in Indian history.
Read the full explanation →Who accompanied Mahmud of Ghazni to India and wrote the Kitab ul Hind?
- A.Alberuni
- B.Firdausi
- C.Amir Khusrau
- D.Ibn Battuta
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The Central Asian scholar Abu Rayhan Alberuni came to India with Mahmud of Ghazni, learnt Sanskrit, and wrote Tahqiq i Hind, known as Kitab ul Hind, which describes Indian religion, society, astronomy and mathematics and is the most valuable account of eleventh century India.
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