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  1. Once firmly in power, Balban took which grand title? (IAS 1997)
    1. Tuti-i-Hind
    2. Kaisar-i-Hind
    3. Zil-i-Ilahi
    4. Din-i-Ilahi
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    Answer: (C) Zil-i-Ilahi

    Zil-i-Ilahi — “shadow of God”. Tuti-i-Hind was Amir Khusrau’s epithet.

  2. In the Sultanate period, “fawazil” meant — (IAS 1998)
    1. extra payments to nobles
    2. revenue assigned in place of salary
    3. surplus paid into the treasury by iqtadars
    4. illegal levies on peasants
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    Answer: (C) surplus paid into the treasury by iqtadars

    The iqtadar kept what his troops and he needed; the excess (fawazil) went to the centre.

  3. Which Sultan built the largest network of canals? (IAS 1998)
    1. Iltutmish
    2. Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq
    3. Firoz Shah Tughlaq
    4. Sikandar Lodi
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    Answer: (C) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

    Ghiyas-ud-din was the first to dig canals, but Firoz built the biggest system.

  4. Which pair is correctly matched? (IAS 2001)
    1. Diwan-i-Bandagan — Tughlaq
    2. Diwan-i-Mustakhraj — Balban
    3. Diwan-i-Kohi — Ala-ud-din Khilji
    4. Diwan-i-Arz — Muhammad Tughlaq
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    Answer: (A) Diwan-i-Bandagan — Tughlaq

    Bandagan — Firoz Tughlaq; Mustakhraj — Ala-ud-din; Kohi — Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq; Arz — Balban.

  5. A: Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq left Delhi and lived for two years in a camp called Swargadwari. R: Delhi was then hit by a plague-like epidemic and many died. (IAS 2002)
    1. Both true, R explains A
    2. Both true, R does not explain A
    3. A true, R false
    4. A false, R true
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    Answer: (A) Both true, R explains A

    The official key is (a). Famine and disease emptied Delhi; the Sultan camped at Swargadwari on the Ganga near Kannauj.

  6. The arrival of Babur in India led to — 1. introduction of gunpowder 2. introduction of arch and dome 3. establishment of the Timurid dynasty (IAS 2015)
    1. 1 and 2
    2. 3 only
    3. 1 and 3
    4. 1, 2 and 3
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    Answer: (B) 3 only

    Gunpowder was known earlier and arch-and-dome came with the Turks; only 3 is correct.

  7. Which Sultans did not let the ulema interfere in politics? 1. Balban 2. Ala-ud-din Khilji 3. Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq 4. Firoz Tughlaq (IAS 2002)
    1. 1 only
    2. 2 and 3
    3. 1, 2 and 3
    4. 3 and 4
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    Answer: (B) 2 and 3

    Ala-ud-din and Muhammad kept the theologians out of state affairs; Firoz courted them.

  8. The iqta is called the “central pillar” of Sultanate administration because —
    1. iqtadars collected revenue in non-crown lands
    2. their troops formed the largest part of the army
    3. nearly every civil and military officer held an iqta
    4. all of these
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    Answer: (D) all of these

    Revenue, army and provincial government all ran through the iqta.

  9. A: No woman ruled the Delhi Sultanate after Razia. R: Women held a high social and economic position in the Sultanate.
    1. Both true, R explains A
    2. Both true, R does not explain A
    3. A true, R false
    4. A false, R true
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    Answer: (C) A true, R false

    Razia was the only woman Sultan; women’s position was generally low — her own nobles opposed her as a woman.

  10. The Sultanate-period term for measuring land was — (IAS 2012)
    1. Kismat-i-Ghalla
    2. Ghalla-Bakhshi
    3. Masahat
    4. Ghazi
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    Answer: (C) Masahat

    Ala-ud-din’s revenue was fixed on masahat, with the biswa as the unit.

  1. What were “abwab”? (HPPCS 2012)
    1. Toll tax
    2. Religious tax like zakat
    3. Customs on merchandise
    4. Miscellaneous cesses — house, grazing, irrigation tax etc.
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    Answer: (D) Miscellaneous cesses — house, grazing, irrigation tax etc.

    Ghari and charai of Ala-ud-din are examples.

  2. Which Sultan quarrelled with the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya?
    1. Jalal-ud-din Khilji
    2. Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq
    3. Firoz Shah Tughlaq
    4. Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq
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    Answer: (B) Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq

    “Hunuz Dilli dur ast” — Delhi is still far off.

  3. Who completed the Qutub Minar?
    1. Qutub-ud-din Aibak
    2. Iltutmish
    3. Balban
    4. Ala-ud-din Khilji
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    Answer: (B) Iltutmish

    Aibak began it; Ala-ud-din’s Alai Minar was left unfinished.

  4. Which department did Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq create?
    1. Diwan-i-Riyasat
    2. Diwan-i-Amir-i-Kohi
    3. Diwan-i-Khairat
    4. Diwan-i-Waqf
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    Answer: (B) Diwan-i-Amir-i-Kohi

    The department of agriculture; he also gave sondhar loans to peasants.

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