Which foreign traveller visited India during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq and was appointed qazi of Delhi?
- A.Marco Polo
- B.Ibn Battuta
- C.Nicolo Conti
- D.Abdur Razzaq
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Ibn Battuta. Ibn Battuta was a Moroccan traveller from Tangier who reached Delhi in the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, was taken into royal service as qazi or judge of the capital and was later sent as an envoy to China. His account, the Rihla, written in Arabic, is a first-hand source for Sultanate towns, markets, the postal system and the coconut and betel of the coast. Option A is wrong because Marco Polo, the Venetian, touched the south Indian coast around the end of the thirteenth century and never served at Delhi. Option C is wrong because Nicolo Conti, also Venetian, visited the Vijayanagara empire in the fifteenth century. Option D is wrong because Abdur Razzaq was the envoy of the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh to Vijayanagara in the reign of Devaraya II.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich dynasty of Delhi Sultanate ruled for the shortest time?
- A.Khilji
- B.Tughlaq
- C.Sayyid
- D.Lodi
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The Khalji or Khilji dynasty held the throne of Delhi only from 1290, when Jalaluddin Khalji seized power, to 1320, when Khusrau Khan was overthrown by Ghazi Malik.
Read the full explanation →Which Sultan shifted the capital of the Delhi Sultanate from Lahore to Delhi and completed the Qutb Minar?
- A.Qutbuddin Aibak
- B.Iltutmish
- C.Balban
- D.Jalaluddin Khalji
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Shamsuddin Iltutmish, who ruled from 1211 to 1236, moved the seat of government from Lahore to Delhi, completed the Qutb Minar that his father-in-law had begun, issued the silver tanka and the copper jital, organised the iqta system of land assignments and formed the Turkan-i-Chihalgani, the corps of forty Turkish…
Read the full explanation →Which of the following rulers built the mosque called 'Adhai-din-ka-Jhopra'?
- A.Balban
- B.Abraham Lodi
- C.Iltutmish
- D.Qutub-ud-Din-Aibak
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The Adhai-din-ka-Jhonpra stands at Ajmer in Rajasthan and was raised on the site of an earlier Sanskrit college by Qutbuddin Aibak, the founder of the Slave dynasty and the first Sultan of Delhi.
Read the full explanation →The dagh (branding of horses) and chehra (descriptive roll of soldiers) systems were introduced by which Sultan?
- A.Balban
- B.Iltutmish
- C.Alauddin Khalji
- D.Firoz Shah Tughlaq
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Alauddin Khalji, who ruled from 1296 to 1316, wanted a standing army paid directly by the state and under his own eye.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following type of tax was collected during the Delhi Sultanate?
- A.Ryotwari Tax
- B.Income tax
- C.Mahalwari tax
- D.Kharaj tax
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Kharaj was the land tax on agricultural produce and the single largest source of revenue for the Delhi Sultanate. Alauddin Khalji raised the demand to half the produce in the doab and had land measured for assessment.
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