The princely state of Bhopal was founded in the early eighteenth century by
- A.Dost Mohammad Khan
- B.Ranoji Scindia
- C.Qudsia Begum
- D.Anand Rao Puar
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Dost Mohammad Khan. He was an Afghan soldier in the service of the later Mughals who built up a holding around Bhopal in the early eighteenth century, and his descendants ruled it as Nawabs until the state acceded to India. Bhopal is therefore the one large state of the region that was never a Maratha house, a point examiners test directly.
Option B is wrong because Ranoji Scindia founded the Gwalior house. Option C is wrong because Qudsia Begum was the first of the four nineteenth century Begums of Bhopal, a ruler of the state rather than its founder. Option D is wrong because the Puar family held Dhar and Dewas, two smaller Maratha states of Malwa, and not Bhopal.
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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 →Ahilyabai Holkar ruled the Holkar state from which town on the Narmada?
- A.Indore
- B.Maheshwar
- C.Ujjain
- D.Mandsaur
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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.
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.
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