Muslim Invasion on India

Total Questions: 38

21. The word 'Hindu' as a reference to the people of Hind (India) was first used by : [I.A.S. (Pre) 1995]

Correct Answer: (d) The Arabs
Solution:Most of the scholars feel that the name "Hindu" was pronounced by invaders who could not pronounce the name of the Indus River. As mentioned in Rig-Veda, Bharata is defined as 'Sapta Sindhu.' Iranians termed this country as Hindustan and Greeks called it 'India. About the Indian people, the word 'Hindu' was first used by Arabians.

22. First Muslim attack on India occurred in the year [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 1995]

Correct Answer: (d) None of these
Solution:King Dahir of Sindh fought the battle with Muhammad-Bin- Qasim, the first successful Muslim invader who defeated Dahir in this battle. He arrived at the coast of Sindh in 712 A.D. (Now in Pakistan) and was successful in defeating and killing Dahir.

Note: There is a dispute about the exact date of the first successful Muslim invasion on India. According to V.D. Mahajan, this date is 711 A.D. but according to Harish Chandra Verma, this date is 712 A.D.

23. When Muhammad-Bin-Qasim conquered Sindh [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 1991]

Correct Answer: (c) 712 A.D.
Solution:King Dahir of Sindh fought the battle with Muhammad-Bin- Qasim, the first successful Muslim invader who defeated Dahir in this battle. He arrived at the coast of Sindh in 712 A.D. (Now in Pakistan) and was successful in defeating and killing Dahir.

Note: There is a dispute about the exact date of the first successful Muslim invasion on India. According to V.D. Mahajan, this date is 711 A.D. but according to Harish Chandra Verma, this date is 712 A.D.

24. First Muslim invader in India was [U.P. Lower Sub. (Pre) 2002]

Correct Answer: (c) Muhammad-Bin-Qasim
Solution:The first successful Muslim invader of India was Muhammad- Bin-Qasim. In the beginning of the 8 century under the leadership of Muhammad Bin-Qasim, a part of India was unsuccessfully attacked.

The empire of Arabs couldn't spread towards the cast of Sindh and Multan, and it gradually declined. In the words of Dr. Stenley Lanepool "Although Arabs conquered Sindh, but it remained only an episode in history of India and Islam. This was an incomplete victory". Their incomplete task was done by Turks.

25. The first Muslim invaders of India were - [U.P. Lower Sub. (Pre) 2015]

Correct Answer: (c) The Arabs
Solution:The very first successful Muslim invasion on India took place in Sindh in the year 712 A.D. by the Arabs under the leadership of Mohammad-Bin-Qasim. He displaced Raja Dahir who ruled Sindh from his capital Arod (near modern Karachi).

26. Muhammad-Bin-Qasin was a - [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 1992]

Correct Answer: (c) Arab
Solution:Muhammad-Bin-Qasim was an Arab ruler born around 695 A.D. He was the nephew and son-in-law of Iraq's King Al-Hajjaj. At the age of seventeen, he was sent by Caliph-al-Walid to lead an army to Sindh (India).

27. According to Chachnama, what was the Capital of the Indus Country in the 6ᵗʰ and 7ᵗʰ century ? [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2020]

Correct Answer: (b) Arod
Solution:Chachnama ("Story of Chach") is one of the main historical source for the history of Sindh in the 7th to 8th century A.D, written in Persian. It takes its name from Raja Chach of Sindh whose son Dahir stood against Mohammad Bin Qasim's invasion of Sindh in 8th Century A.D. Text states that  Arod served as capital of the Indus country in the 6th and 7th century. Hence option (b) is correct.

28. Who among the following was the was the founder of Ghaznavid dynasty ? [U.P. Lower Sub. (Pre) 2015]

Correct Answer: (a) Alptigin
Solution:Towards the end of the ninth century, Trans-oxiana, Khurasan and parts of Iran were being ruled by the Samanids who were Iranian by descent. Among the Samanid governor there was a Turkish Slave, Alaptigin, who, in course of time, established an independent kingdom with its capital at Ghazni and founded Ghaznavid dynasty, which soon took over the control of Samanid Kingdom.

29. Assertion (A) : Mohd. Ghazni invaded India seventeen times. [U.P. Lower Sub. (Spl) (Pre) 2004]

Reason (R) : He wanted to establish permanent Muslim Empire in India.

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Correct Answer: (b) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
Solution:Turkish conqueror Mahmud of Ghazni succeeded his father in 998 A.D. He established a huge empire in Central Asia with it's capital at Ghazni (Afganistan). For 17 times he attacked India from 999 A.D. to 1027 A.D. He was a ruthless invader and plunderer of wealth. In these invasions, his aim was not to establish any permanent Muslim rule in India but to take away the huge wealth of the country.

30. Which of the following Chandela King was not defeated by Mahmud Ghaznavi - [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 1991]

Correct Answer: (b) Vidyadhar
Solution:The Chandela dynasty is famous in Indian history for the King Vidyadhar, who repulsed the attacks of Mahmud Ghaznavi during 1019-20 A.D. From the ninth century to the 13th century, the Chandelas ruled over Central India. Their first capital city was Khajuraho, which was later shifted to Mahoba.