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The correct answer is Mohammad bin tuglaq.

• Diwan-i-amir-kohi department related to Agriculture Department was established by Mohammad Bin Tuglaq.

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The correct answer is option 3.

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Muhammad bin Tughlaq:

• Muhammad bin Tughlalq was the most controversial personality in medieval Indian history.
• He was a learned, cultured and talented prince but gained a reputation for being merciless, cruel and unjust.
• He was very tolerant of religious matters.
• His innovative reforms brought him a bad name, as they were not executed properly.
• During the time of Muhammad bin Tughlaq Vijaynagar(1336) and Bahamani(1347) emerged.
• Ibn Batuta, a Moroccan traveller visited Tughlaq. He recorded his observation in his book Qitab-ul-Rihla. Later he was sent to china as an ambassador of Tughlaq.
• Muhammad Bin Tughluq issued coins in large quantities with a greater number of mints which reflects the extent of his conquests.
  • His coinage is divided into different classes. Coins which were struck in the memory of his father, coins with his own name; coins with his own name which were struck both by normal and token issues, and the coins struck in the names of ‘Abbasid Caliphs’.
  • Coins which he issued in the memory of his father were issued in gold, silver, and billon.
  • Gold tanka which he issued usually weighed around 11g. But apart from gold tankas, he had issued a gold coin which weighed around 16g, which corresponds to four pagodas.
  • This Gold Tanka was called Dinar by Ibn Battuta. Hence, statement 1 is correct.
  • He introduced a silver coin, the Adlis, which was discontinued after seven years due to a lack of popularity and acceptance among his subjects.
• Token currency:
  • ​He introduced token currency or copper coins.
  • His main aim was to save precious metals like gold and silver and introduce more money in circulation. Hence, statement 2 is not correct.
  • For this reason, copper coins were issued which had the same value as silver tanka.
  • But, Minting the copper coin was not retained as the monopoly of the government.
  • The goldsmiths began to forge the token coins on a large scale. Soon the new coins were not accepted in the markets.
  • Finally, the sultan stopped the circulation of token currency and promised to exchange silver coins for copper coins. Many people exchanged new coins but the treasury became empty.

The correct answer is Muhammad Bin Tughluq.

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• Muhammad Bin Tughluq shifted his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad.
• Muhammad bin Tughlaq himself spent a great span of life as a prince on campaign in the southern states during the reign of his father.
• He is also remembered for his wild policy swings.
• He was proficient in many Indian languages and had a huge interest in medicine.

The correct answer is Muhammad Bin Tughlaq.

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• Muhammad Bin Tughlaq shifted his capital from Delhi to Devagiri.
• He was the son of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq and also known as Prince Juan.
• He was famous for his  five ambitious projects for which he became particularly debatable:
  • Taxation in the Doab (1326 AD).
  • Transfer of Capital (1327 AD): from Delhi to Devagiri. Devagiri was thus named Daulatabad.
  • Introduction of Token Currency (1329 AD).
  • Proposed Khurasan Expedition (1329 AD).
  • Karachi Expedition (1330 AD).
• A new department of agriculture Diwani-i-Kohi was set up by him.
• He built the fortress of Adilabad and city of ‘Jahanpanah’.

The correct answer is Nasir-ud-din-Mahmud.

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• Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq also known as Nasiruddin Mohammad Shah was the last ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty.
• He ruled from 1394 to 1413.
• Timur invaded India during Nasiruddin Mahmud's reign in 1398. 
• Khizr Khan succeeded him to establish the Sayyid dynasty.

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• Firoz Shah Tughlaq (1351-89) ascended the throne of Delhi after the demise of his cousin Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq.
  • He started the imposition of Jizya on brahmans.
  • He imposed water cess Haq-i-shrib.
  • Established four new towns, Firozabad, Fatehabad, Jaunpur, and Hissar.
• Ghiyath-ud-din Tughluq Shah II (Tughluq Khan), was the grandson of Feroze Shah.
  • He was a Sultan of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
  • He ascended to the throne in 1390.
  • The duration of the reign of Tughluq Khan, was five months and eighteen days.
• Sultan Nasir-ud-din Nusrat Shah Tughluq was a ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty.
  • Nusrat Shah (Nasrat Khan) challenged the succession of Ala ud-din Sikandar Shah triggering a war of succession between Nusrat Shah and Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah that lasted for three years until 1397.
  • During that time, Nasiruddin Mahmud ruled from the city of Delhi, while Nusrat Shah ruled from Firozabad.

The correct answer is "Punjab"

Key Points  Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq: 

• He crushed the revolts in the unfriendly provinces with sturdy influence and resorted to harmony, law, and order
• He structured an improved postal system
• He encouraged agriculture in his Era.

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Ala-ud-din Khilji:

• The system of administration as set up by him was thorough and efficient.
• Sultan Alauddin maintained peace and order throughout the vast empire.
• He employed a large number of spies and they kept him informed of the activities of the people and their reactions to the measures of the Government.
• He fixed the price of commodities at a low level and his regulation of the market is one of the marvels of medieval statesmanship.
• He was also a patron of architecture and arts. He caused a new town to be built near Delhi.
• He also constructed a fairly large number of schools, inns, and mosques in different parts of his Empire.
• Amir Khusrau, the famous poet, was one of the many literary artists who enjoyed his patronage.

Important Points   Chronology of the Delhi Sultanate

The correct answer is The Tughlaq dynasty.

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• Tamerlane or Timur marched into India with his army and reached Delhi in the year 1398. 
• Attacking the Delhi Sultanate ruled by Sultan Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq.
• He started his journey from Samarkand. After crossing the Sindh river, he entered Punjab.
• He crossed Indus and captured Multan, and just walked over to Delhi without much resistance.
• Hence Tughlaq dynasty is the answer.

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• Five dynasties ruled over the Delhi Sultanate sequentially:
  • Mamluk dynasty (1206–1290)
  • Khalji dynasty (1290–1320)
  • Tughlaq dynasty (1320–1414)
  • Sayyid dynasty (1414–1451)
  • Lodi dynasty (1451–1526)

The correct answer is Muhammad Bin Tughluq.

Key Points

• Muhammad Bin Tughluq shifted his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad.
• Muhammad bin Tughlaq himself spent a great span of life as a prince on campaign in the southern states during the reign of his father.
• He is also remembered for his wild policy swings.
• He was proficient in many Indian languages and had a huge interest in medicine.

The correct answer is Muhammad bin Tughlaq.

• Muhammad bin Tughluq was the Sultan of Delhi.
  • He is also known as the wisest fool.
  • He ruled the Tughlaq dynasty from 1325 to 1351.
  • He moved his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad in 1327.
  • After two years he shifted the capital back to Delhi due to lack of water supplies and many other issues.
  • He introduced the 'token' currency in 1330.
  • The coins introduced by Muhammad bin Tughlaq were made of brass and copper.
  • The values of the coins were equal to that of gold and silver coins.
  • The use of token currency has stopped in 1333 due to the issues in trade and commerce.

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The Correct Answer is ​Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq.Key Points

• Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq was the last sultan of the Tughlaq dynasty.
• It was during the reign of him Timur invaded India in 1398 A.D.
• He crossed Indus and captured Multan, and just walked over to Delhi without much resistance.

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Akbar

• Akbar was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.
• Akbar was crowned at the age of fourteen.
• Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in India.

Alauddin Khilji

• Ala-ud-din Khalji ruled from 1296–1316.
• Alauddin was a nephew and a son-in-law of his predecessor Jalaluddin.
• Ala-ud-din was the first Sultan to pay his soldiers in cash rather than give them a share of the booty.

Feroz Shah Tughlaq

• Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq was a Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388.
• He established Sharia across his realm.

The correct answer is Tughlaq.

Important Points

• He was the founder of the Tughluq dynasty in India. 
• After assuming power, Ghazi Malik renamed himself Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq.
• After him, the dynasty was succeeded by his son Muhammad bin Tughluq.
• Rule of Tughlaq dynasty (1320–1414).

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• Word Ghazi means fighter for Islam.
• Founded the city of Tughluqabad.
• The cause of death is the structural collapse of plank on running elephants.
• The sequence of Delhi sultanate Slave-Khilji-Tughlaq Sayyid-Lodhi.
• The first Sayyid ruler of Delhi was Khizr Khan.
• The Lodi dynasty was founded by Bahlul Khan Lodi when he replaced the Sayyid dynasty.

The correct answer is Jittal.

Key Points

• Muhammad bin Tughlaq:-

• Muhammad Bin Tughlaq was the son of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq.
• His real name was Ulugh Khan or Fakhruddin Jauna.
• He ruled over Delhi sultanate from 1325 to 1351.
• Muhammad Bin Tughlaq introduced copper currency system in India.
• Ibn Battuta was a famous Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveller came to India during his regime.
• Muhammad Bin Tughlaq Transferred his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad in 1326 A.D.
• Muhammad bin Tughlaq introduced a copper coin called "Jital" in place of the silver coin.

The correct answer is Muhammad Bin Tughlaq.

• Muhammad Bin Tughlaq was the ruler of the Delhi sultanate when Ibn Batuta came to India.

Key Points

• Ibn Battuta was a traveller from Morocco.
  • He came to India during the reign of Muhammad bin-Tughlaq (1333-1347).
  • Muhammad bin-Tughlaq was impressed by his scholarship and appointed Ibn Battuta the qazi or judge of Delhi.
  • He was ordered in 1342 to proceed to China as the Sultan’s envoy to the Mongol ruler.
  • His account is often compared with that of Marco Polo, who visited China (and also India) from his home base in Venice in the late thirteenth century.
  • Ibn Battuta’s book of travels called Rihla, written in Arabic provides extremely rich and interesting details about the social and cultural life in the subcontinent in the fourteenth century.

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• Alauddin Khilji
  • He was the second sultan of the Khilji dynasty and was the most powerful king of this dynasty. He ruled for about twenty years from 1296 to 1316.
  • He became the sultan of Delhi after killing his uncle and father-in-law Jalaluddin Khilji, the founder of the Khilji dynasty.
  • Alauddin was a very ambitious person and a warmonger.
  • He liked to call himself ‘The Second Alexander’.
  • During his regime, he expanded his kingdom to a large area.
  • He conquered Gujarat, Ranathambor, Mewar, Malwa, Jalore, Warangal, and Madurai.
• Ibrahim Lodhi
  • He was the last king of the Lodhi dynasty and the last sultan of Delhi.
  • He was the son of Sikandar Lodhi. Daulat Khan Lodhi, the Governor of Punjab, invited Bahur to overthrow Ibrahim.
  • He captured Gwalior and was defeated by Rana Sanga of Mewar.
  • He was defeated and killed at the hands of Babur in the First Battle of Panipat in 1526 AD.
• Feroz Shah Tughlaq
  • He was born in 1309 and became sultan of Delhi after the demise of his cousin Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq.
  • He was the third ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty that ruled over Delhi from 1320 to 1412 AD.
  • He was in power from 1351 to 1388 AD.
  • He used to pay his army in-kind i.e Land and not in real money.
  • The British called him the ‘father of the irrigation department’ because of the many gardens and canals that he built like - The canal connecting the Yamuna to the city of Hissar. 

The correct answer is Zil-Ilahi (Shadow of God).

Key Points

• Ghiyas-ud-din Balban was the first Muslim ruler to formulate the ‘theory of kingship’ similar to the ‘theory of the divine right of the kings'.
• Balban lived and ruled from 1266 AD to 1287 AD.
• Balban himself was a member of Chalisa or Chahalgani but he broke the power of Chahalgani and restored the prestige of the crown. 
• He created a strong centralized army and established the military department Diwan-i-Arz.
• He ordered the separation of military affairs from the finance department (Diwan‑i‑Wazarat).
• He declared the sultan as representative of God on Earth. Persian court model influenced Balban’s conception of kingship. He took up the title of Zil-i-Ilahi (a shadow of God) and impressed upon the people that the king was the deputy of God (Niyabat-i-Khudai).
• He insisted on the Iranian ceremonies of sijda and paibos.
• He was a patron of Persian literature and showed special favor to Amir Khusro.

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• Qutubuddin Aibak constructed two mosques, Quwwat-ul- Islam in Delhi and Adhai din ka Jhonpra in Ajmer. He also began the construction of Qutub Minar, in honor of the famous Sufi Saint, Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki.
• Shamsuddin Iltutmish was the slave of Qutubuddin Aibak and occupied the throne of Delhi in 1211 AD after deposing Aram Bakhsh. 
• Alauddin introduced the system of Dagh (the branding of the horse) and Chehra (descriptive role of soldiers).

The correct answer is Ziauddin Barani.Key Points

• Ziauddin Barani is the author of the historical text "Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi."
• This book is a chronicle of the reign of Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq, a ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in Delhi Sultanate.
• It provides valuable insights into the political and social aspects of that period.

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