TRACING CHANGES THROUGH A THOUSAND YEARS

Question 1

DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF TERM HINDUSTAN?

Answer 1

1. 13TH CENTURY CHRONICLER MINHAJ-I-SIRAJ WHO WROTE IN PERSIAN MEANT THE AREAS OF PUNJAB, HARYANA AND THE LANDS BETWEEN GANGA AND YAMUNA.
   HE USED THE TERM IN POLITICAL SENSE.
2. BABUR USED HINDUSTAN TO DESCRIBE THE GEOGRAPHY, THE FAUNA AND THE CULTURE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE SUBCONTINENT. 14TH CENTURY AMIR KHUSRAU ALSO USED THE WORD HIND IN THE SAME SENSE.

Question 2

TERM ARCHIVE IN MEDIEVAL INDIA?

Answer 2

PLACE WHERE DOCUMENTS AND MANUSCRIPTS ARE STORED.

Question 3

WHAT IS SHIKASTE?

Answer 3

WRITING STYLE.
IT IS DENSER AND MORE DIFFICULT.
NASTALIQ STYLE IS CURSIVE AND EASY.

Question 4

THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY CHRONICLER ZIYAUDDIN BARANI WROTE CHRONICLE FIRST IN _____ AND ANOTHER VERSION_______ YEARS LATER. THE TWO DIFFER FROM EACH OTHER BUT THE HISTORIANS DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THE FIRST VERSION UNTIL THE ______. IT REMAINED LOST IN LARGE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS.

Answer 4

1356 AND ANOTHER 2 YEARS LATER.
1960s .

Question 5

NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW FOODS AND BEVERAGES IN MEDIEVAL INDIA?

Answer 5

● NEW TECHNOLOGIES
1 PERSIAN WHEEL IN IRRIGATION
2 SPINNING WHEEL IN WEAVING
3 FIREARMS IN COMBAT
● NEW FOODS AND BEVERAGES
1 POTATOES
2 CORN
3 CHILLIES
4 TEA
5 COFFEE

Question 6

WAHT DOES KAYASTHAS MEAN?

Answer 6

A CASTE OF SCRIBES AND SECRETARIES.

Question 7

WHAT WERE JATIS AND THEIR RULES?

Answer 7

AS THE SOCIETY BECAME MORE DIFFERENTIATED, PEOPLE WERE GROUPED INTO JATIS OR SUBCASTES AND RANKED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR OCCUPATIONS.
1 RANKS WERE NOT FIXED PERMANENTLY, AND VARIED ACCORDING TO THE POWER, INFLUENCE AND RESOURCE CONTROLLED BY MEMBERS OF THE JATI.
2 THE STATUS OF THE SAME JATI COULD VARY FROM AREA TO AREA.
3 JATIS FRAMED THEIR OWN RULES AND REGULATIONS.
4 THESE REGULATIONS WERE ENFORCED BY AN ASSEMBLY OF ELDERS (JATI PANCHAYATS)
5 JATIS WERE ALSO REQUIRED TO FOLLOW THE RULES OF THEIR VILLAGES.

Question 8

EXTENT OF EMPIRE OF GHIYASUDDIN BALBAN?

Answer 8

DELHI SULTAN GHIYASUDDIN BALABN (1266-1287) EMPIRE STRETCHED FROM BENGAL (GAUDA) IN THE EAST TO GHAZNI (GAJJANA) IN AFGHANISTAN IN THE WEST AND INCLUDED ALL OF SOUTH INDIA.

Question 9

WORD PATRON IN MEDIEVAL INDIA MEANS?

Answer 9

AN INFLUENTIAL WEALTHY INDIVIDUAL WHO SUPPORTS ANOTHER PERSON, AN ARTISTE, A CRAFTSPERSON, A LEARNED MAN OR A NOBLE.

Question 10

TRUE/FALSE
OCCASIONALLY DYNASTIES LIKE THE CHOLAS, KHALJIS, TUGHLUQS AND MUGHALS WERE ABLE TO BUILD AN EMPIRE THAT WAS PAN-REGIONAL- SPANNING DIVERSE REGION.

Answer 10

TRUE.

Question 11

TRUE/FALSE
WHEN THE MUGHAL EMPIRE DECLINED IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, IT LED TO THE RE-EMERGENCE OF REGIONAL STATES. BUT YEARS OF IMPERIAL, PAN REGIONAL RULE HAD ALTERED THE CHARACTER OF THE REGIONS.

Answer 11

TRUE.

Question 12

TRUE/FALSE
THROUGH THE THOUSAND YEARS BETWEEN 700 AND 1750 THE CHARACTER OF THE DIFFERENT REGIONS DID NOT GROW IN ISOLATION. THESE REGIONS FELT THE IMPACT OF LARGER PAN REGIONAL FORCES OF INTEGRATION WITHOUT EVER QUITE LOSING THEIR DISTINCTIVENESS.

Answer 12

TRUE.

Question 13

TERM ULAMAS MEANING IN MEDIEVAL INDIA?

Answer 13

LEARNED THEOLOGIANS AND JURISTS.
THEY PERFORM RELIGIOUS, JURIDICIAL AND TEACHING FUNCTIONS.
ULAMA (PLURAL OF ALIM OR ONE WHO KNOWS) ARE SCHOLARS OF ISLAMIC STUDIES.

Question 14

TERM KHALIFAS MEANING?

Answer 14

LEADERS.

Question 15

ISLAMIC SCHOOLS OF LAW?

Answer 15

1 MALIKI
2 HANAFI (MOST FOLLOWED)
3 SHAFI’I
4 HANBALI

Question 16

WE DO NOT FIND INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE PERIOD AFTER 700.
TRUE/FALSE.

Answer 16

FALSE.
THEY STILL RELY ON COINS, INSCRIPTIONS, ARCHITECTURE AND TEXTUAL RECORDS FOR INFORMATION. BUT THERE IS ALSO CONSIDERABLE DISCONTINUITY.