How did the Mughal court suggest that everyone – the rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak – received justice equally from the emperor?
These steps were as given below:
- Behind emperor’s throne were a sequence of peitra dura inlays that depicted the legendary greek god Orpheus, playing lute.
- It was accepted that Orpheus music could calm down ferocious beasts until they co-existed together peaceably.
- This is communicated that the king’s justice would treat his highs and the lows equally that created a world where all could stay together in harmony.
What role did the Yamuna play in the layout of the new Mughal city at Shahjahanabad?
What is a shikhara?
An inscription in Shah Jahan’s diwan-i khas in Delhi stated: “If there is Paradise on Earth, it is here, it is here, it is here.” How was this image created?
The rich and powerful construct large houses today. In what ways were the constructions of kings and their courtiers different in the past?
How is the “trabeate” principle of architecture different from the “arcuate”?
What are the elements of a Mughal chahar bagh garden?
What is pietra-dura?
How did a temple communicate the importance of a king?
Look at Figure 4. How could that building be constructed faster today?
Who was considered a “foreigner” in the past?
Match the following:
Gurjara-Pratiharas Western Deccan
Rashtrakutas Bengal
Palas Gujarat and Rajasthan
Cholas Tamil Nadu
Which ruler first established his or her capital at Delhi?
Match the following:
mansab Marwar
Mongol governor
Sisodiya Rajput Uzbeg
Rathor Rajput Mewar
Nur Jahan rank
subadar Jahangir
Fill in the blanks:
(a) The Rajarajeshvara temple was built in ———.
(b) Ajmer is associated with the Sufi saint ————.
(c) Hampi was the capital of the ———— Empire.
(d) The Dutch established a settlement at ———— in Andhra Pradesh.
Match the following:
garh khel
tanda chaurasi
labourer caravan
clan Garha Katanga
Sib Singh Ahom state
Durgawati paik
The Buddha namghar
Shankaradeva worship of Vishnu
Nizamuddin Auliya questioned social differences
Nayanars Sufi saint
Alvars worship of Shiva
Anantavarman Kerala
Jagannatha Bengal
Mahodayapuram Orissa
Lilatilakam Kangra
Mangalakavya Puri
Miniature Kerala
Match the following:
subadar a revenue farmer
faujdar a high noble
ijaradar provincial governor
misl Maratha peasant warriors
chauth a Mughal military commander
kunbis a band of Sikh warriors
umara tax levied by the Marathas
State whether true or false:
(a) We do not find inscriptions for the period after 700.
(b) The Marathas asserted their political importance during this period.
(c) Forest-dwellers were sometimes pushed out of their lands with the spread of agricultural settlements.
(d) Sultan Ghiyasuddin Balban controlled Assam, Manipur and Kashmir.
What kind of irrigation works were developed in the Tamil region?
How do historians divide the past into periods? Do they face any problems in doing so?
Why were temples built in Bengal?
What kinds of exchanges took place between nomadic pastoralists and settled agriculturists?
Do you think merchants and bankers today have the kind of influence they had in the eighteenth century?
Anantavarman Kerala
Jagannatha Bengal
Mahodayapuram Orissa
Lilatilakam Kangra
Mangalakavya Puri
Miniature Kerala
Match the following:
mansab Marwar
Mongol governor
Sisodiya Rajput Uzbeg
Rathor Rajput Mewar
Nur Jahan rank
subadar Jahangir
What does the term pan-regional empire mean?
Who were the major patrons of Kathak?
What were the central provinces under the control of the Mughals?