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HISTORY

FOURTH PAPER

( History of the Mughals I

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Time:3 hours

(Pam : B-*DESCRrprrvE )

(Marks: 50 )

T?rc qtestions ore of equal uafue

Answer all questions

1. Give an account of the pre-Mughal society withreference to caste, social manners and manners.

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Examine the Mughal-Afghan contest forsupremacy in India.

2. Assess Aurangzeb's relafions with the Rajputsand Deccan States"

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Write arl essay on the Mansabdari system of theMughals.

3. Examine the social structure of the Mughalsociet5r with reference to the Nobility andZamindars.

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Evaluate the main' features of land revenueadministration in Mughal India.

4. Critically discuss Akbar's religious poliry.

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Write an essay on the origin and development ofSufism in India.

5. Enurnerate the various theories of the decline ofthe Mughal empire.

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Give an account of the emergence of regionalStates in the 18th century.

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2015( 4th Semester )

HISTORY

FOURTH PAPER

( History of the Mughals I

( Pem : A-oe.recrve )

( Marks: 25 )

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( Marks: 1O )

Answer all questions

Each question carries 1 mark

Put a Tick (/) mark against the correct answer in the bracketsprovided :

1. Who was the author of Humagun Namfr

(a) Humayun ( )

(b) Gulbadan Begum ( )

(c) Roshanara ( )

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2. Who fought the Battle of Kanauj in M"y, 1540?

Babur and Sher Shah

Huma5run and Sher Shah

(c) Huma5run and Mahammad Lodi

3. What was the Khalsa?

Crown-lands ( )

Jagrr lands ( )

Land under peasant ownership

4. What was Rahdari?

Land tax

Road tax

(c) House tax

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The class of traders who specialized in bulk goods duringthe Mughal period were

(a) Banjaras

(b) Dallals (

(c) Gumashtas

6. Which traveller wrote in t],ethat Delhi was not less than

middle of the LTth centuryParis?

7.

(a) Ralph Fitch

(b) Bernier (

(c) Monserrate

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Darwaza washis victory at

constructed by Akbar to

" (a) Gujarat

(b) Bengal

(c) Rajasthan

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8. Who was the famous Chishti Saint?

(a) Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti

(b) Nizamuddin Auliya

(c) Bakhtiyar Kaki

Who propound that the greatthe Mughal Empire?

firm theory of the decline of

(a) Karen Leonard

(b) M. Athar Ali )

Pearson and P. Hardy(c) J. F. Richard, M. N.

1O. Who wrote, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North Indi*

(a) Irfan Habib

(b) Muzaffar Alam

(c) Satish Chandra

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( Marks: 15 )

Each question carries 3 marks

Answer any fi.ue of the following questions in not more than5 sentences each :

1. Write in brief the significance of the First Battle ofPanipat.

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2. Write a note on Tuzuk-i-Jehangiri.

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3. In the Mansabdari system of the Mughals, what did Zatand Sawar ranks signify?

4. Who were the Khanazads?

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5. What is a Hundi?

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6. What do you know of the Zabt system?

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7. What is Jizyah?

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Jagirdari system?

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9. What were the major industries during the Mughalperiod?

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10' Give reasons why the new Regionar states of Bengal,Awadh and Hyderabad were called ,successor States,.

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