TRIBES, NOMADS AND SETTLED COMMUNITIES Flashcards
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TRUE/FALSE
UNDER DELHI SULTANS AND THE MUGHALS, THE VARNA SYSTEM HIERARCHY BETWEEN SOCIAL CLASSES DECREASED.
FALSE.
IT GREW FURTHER.
MANY SOCIETIES IN THE SUBCONTINENT DID NOT FOLLOW THE SOCIAL RULES AND RITUALS PRESCRIBED BY THE BRAHMANAS. NOR THEY WERE DIVIDED INTO NUMEROUS UNEQUAL CLASSES. SUCH SOCIETIES ARE OFTEN CALLED _________.
TRIBES.
TRIBES IN PUNJAB DURING THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURY?
KHOKHAR TRIBE WAS VERY INFLUENTIAL.
LATER, THE GAKKHARS BECAME MORE IMPORTANT.
KAMAL KHAN GAKKHAR, THE CHIEF OF GAKKHARS WAS MADE A NOBLE (MANSABDAR) BY WHICH EMPEROR?
EMPEROR AKBAR.
TRIBALS FROM MULTAN AND SIND BEFORE MUGHALS SUBDUED THEM?
LANGAHS AND ARGHUNS DOMINATED EXTENSIVE REGIONS BEFORE THEY WERE SUBDUED BY THE MUGHALS.
WHO WERE BALOCHIS AND GADDIS?
- BALOCHIS WERE ANOTHER LARGE AND POWERFUL TRIBE IN THE NORTHWEST. THEY WERE DIVIDED INTO MANY SMALLER CLANS UNDER DIFFERENT CHIEFS.
- IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYA LIVED THE SHEPHERD TRIBE OF GADDIS.
RAJA MAN SINGH, FAMOUS GENERAL OF AKBAR ATTACKED AND DEFEATED THE _______ IN 1591.
CHEROS TRIBE.
IN MANY AREAS OF PRESENT DAY BIHAR AND JHARKHAND, CHERO CHIEFDOMS HAD EMERGED BY THE TWELFTH CENTURY.
AKBAR COMPLETELY SUBDUED THE CHEROS TRIBE?
TRUE/FALSE.
AFTER THE BATTLE OF 1591, A LARGE AMOUNT OF BOOTY WAS TAKEN FROM THEM, BUT THEY WERE NOT ENTIRELY SUBDUED.
UNDER_______, MUGHAL FORCES CAPTURED MANY CHERO FORTRESSES AND SUBJUGATED THE TRIBE.
AURANGZEB.
MUNDAS AND SANTAL TRIBES LIVED IN?
ORISSA AND BENGAL.
THE MAHARASHTRA HIGHLANDS AND KARNATAKA WERE HOME TO_____,______ AND NUMEROUS OTHER TRIBES.
KOLIS, BERADS.
KOLIS ALSO LIVED IN MANY AREAS OF GUJARAT.
BANJARAS CARAVAN WAS CALLED?
TANDA.
SULTAN _______ USED THE BANJARAS TO TRANSPORT GRAIN TO THE CITY MARKETS.
EMPEROR ______ WROTE IN HIS MEMOIRS THAT THE BANJARAS CARRIED GRAIN ON THEIR BULLOCKS FROM DIFFERENT AREAS AND SOLD IT IN TOWNS.
1 ALAUDDIN KHALJI.
2 JAHANGIR WROTE IN HIS MEMOIRS.
WHAT WERE ITINERANT GROUPS?
ITINERANT GROUPS, SUCH AS CRAFTSPERSONS, PEDLARS AND ENTERTAINERS TRAVEL FROM PLACE TO PLACE PRACTICING THEIR DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONS.
_____, AN ENGLISH TRADER WHO CAME TO INDIA DURING THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, HAS DESCRIBED THE BANJARAS.
PETER MUNDY.
WHICH TRIBE MADE THE BRONZE CROCODILE?
KUTIYA KOND TRIBE, ORISSA.
A TWELFTH CENTURY INSCRIPTION FROM UYYAKONDAN UDAIYAR, IN TIRUCHIRAPALLI TALUKA (IN PRESENT DAY TAMIL NADU), DESCRIBES THE DELIBERATIONS IN A________ OF BRAHMANAS.
THEY DELIBERATED ON THE STATUS OF A GROUP KNOWN AS __________.
SABHA.
RATHKARAS (CHARIOT MAKERS).
THE RISE OF THE_______ CLANS TO THE POSITION OF RULERS SET AN EXAMPLE FOR THE TRIBAL PEOPLE TO FOLLOW.
THE RAJPUT.
GONDS LIVED IN A VAST FORESTED REGION CALLED?
GONDWANA OR COUNTRY INHABITED BY GONDS.
GONDS PRACTICED ________ CULTIVATION.
EACH CLAN HAS ITS OWN RAJA OR ____.
SHIFTING, RAI.
TRUE/FALSE.
THE AKBAR NAMA, A HISTORY OF AKBAR’S REIGN, MENTIONS THE GOND KINGDOM OF GARHA KATANGA THAT HAD 70,000 VILLAGES.
TRUE.
ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM OF GARHA KATANGA?
- THE ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM OF THESE KINGDOMS WAS BECOMING CENTRALIZED.
- KINGDOM WAS DIVIDED INTO GARHS.
- EACH GARH WAS CONTROLLED BY A PARTICULAR GOND CLAN.
- GARH WAS FURTHER DIVIDED INTO UNITS OF 84 VILLAGES CALLED CHAURASI.
- THE CHAURASI WAS SUBDIVIDED INTO BARHOTS WHICH WERE MADE UP OF 12 VILLAGES EACH.
BRAHMANS RECIEVED LAND GRANTS FROM THE GOND RAJAS AND BECAME MORE INFLUENTIAL. THE GOND CHIEFS NOW WISHED TO BE RECOGNIZED AS RAJPUTS. SO, AMAN DAS, THE GOND RAJA OF GARHA KATANGA, ASSUMED THE TITLE OF_________.
SANGRAM SHAH.
AMAN DAS, THE GOND RAJA OF GARHA KATANGA. HIS SON,________, MARRIED PRINCESS ________, THE DAUGHTER OF ____________.
DALPAT.
DURGAWATI, THE DAUGHTER OF SALBAHAN, THE CHANDEL RAJPUT OF MAHOBA.
