QUIZ – 2020: INSIGHTS STATIC QUIZ, 28 May 2020 – History

Solution: d)

Many crafts persons and merchants formed associations known as shrenis.

These shrenis of crafts persons provided training, procured raw material, and distributed the finished product.

Then shrenis of merchants organised the trade.

Shrenis also served as banks, where rich men and women deposited money.

This was invested, and part of the interest was returned or used to support religious institutions such as monasteries.

Solution: a)

Muqtis or iqtadars were the holders of the land assignments or iqtas. They collected the assigned revenues from their iqtas, paid the soldiers their salaries and maintained the required army

Solution: b)

The English East India Company was established in 1600 as per the Royal Charter issued by the Queen of England, Elizabeth I. The Company had sent Captain Hawkins to the court of the Mughal Emperor, Jahangir in 1608 to secure permission to establish a “factory” (store house of goods) at Surat. It was turned down initially.

Solution: a)
Razia Sultana was the fifth Mamluk Sultan and the only female ever to rule as the Sultan of Delhi. She was the daughter of the third ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, Shams-ud-din Iltutmish, and granddaughter of the first Sultan of Delhi, Qutb ud din Aibak.

She gave up purdah and proved to be an efficient ruler both in administering her government and in leading forces at war.

Solution: c)

The Swaraj Party was formed on 9 January 1923 by Indian politicians and members of the Indian National Congress who had opposed Gandhi’s suspension of all civil resistance on 5 February 1922 in response to the Chauri Chaura tragedy, where policemen were killed by a mob of protestors.

The two most important leaders were Chittaranjan Das, who was its president and Motilal Nehru, who was its secretary.