UGC NTA NET/JRF EXAM, June 2019 (HISTORY)

Total Questions: 100

51. Which one of the following revenue grants was NOT granted to the religious intelligentsia?

Correct Answer: (d) Auqaf
Solution:

Amlak-Idrar and Inam were land grants given to religious intelligentsia. Inam revenue grant was given at the ruling period of Akbar the great to the Imams and other religious persons.

52. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

(i) Ibn Battuta speaks highly of the mangoes produced in India.
(ii) He mentions of its production through planting of the kernel.
(iii) Ibn Battuta mentions that practice of mangografting was very much in vogue in India.
Select the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) (i) and (ii)
Solution:

Ibn Battuta was a traveller from marocco. Hе arrived in Delhi in reign of Muhammad bin tughlaq in 1333. He wrote his account 'Rihla'. He was intrigued by mango. He'd write 'The fruit mango is about the size of a large damsak prone which green and quite ripe, of those which happen to fall, they salt and thus preserve themjust a lemon is preserved'.
He mentions its production through the planting of Kernel. Hence the statement Ist & 2nd is correct. However Ibn Battuta didn't mention anything about grafting of mango.

53. A number of changes were introduced by Ghiyasuddin Tughluq in Alauddin's agrarian measures. Which of the following in this context is NOT correct?

Correct Answer: (d) He also continued and encouraged the practice of farming of the land revenue.
Solution:

Solution: The reign of Allauddin Khaliji is known for efforts of consolidating an empire militarily, Administratively and economically Ghiyasuddin Tughluq founder of the Tughluq Dynasty. Who assumed the throne was now faced with organizing a new revenue system for his empire.
In order to relieve the peasantry of excessive taxation he brought the system of 'Hukum-i-hasil' (method of measurement based on crop sharing this allowed cultivators to increase productivity Ghiyasuddin Tughluq's policy was that gradually increasing the revenue collection in proportion to increase in productivity.
The practice of revenue farming was discouraged hence 4ᵗʰ option is correct.

54. Which of the following taxes fell in the category of granting free trade facilities and reduction in the taxes?

(i) Sair-dam    (ii) Muqata

(iii) Mapa        (iv) Rahdari
Select the correct answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (d) (iii) and (iv)
Solution:

All above terms related to mughal period Sair Dam was land revenue assessment and formed part of Jama.
Muqata was the plough and in western Rajasthan revenue assessment was made based on this Mapa is term for measurement.
Rahdari was a tax which was collected at every highway point and was abolished by Aurangzeb.

55. With regard to music which of the following statements is NOT correct?

Correct Answer: (c) Shah Jahan did not encourage music in his court and did not reward the musicians. Hе was interested in architectural works.
Solution:

(Shah Jahan did not encourage music in his court and did not reward the musicians. He was interested in architectural works.)
Although Sahjahan was interested in Architectural works he builds several building as Tajmahal, Red fort etc. but he also patronized music. Aurangzeb did not patronized music.

56. Who was the founder of the Rishi silsilah in Kashmir?

Correct Answer: (c) Sheikh Nuruddin
Solution:

Sheikh Nuruddin Rishi is the most celebrated Kashmiri sufi having a widespread reputation. He founded the Native order of sufis of the valley called Rishi.

57. Shah Jahan was the first Mughal emperor who introduced a new standard, namely mahimaratib. It was considered the highest honour conferred to a person. Which of the Indian rulers used to award this before Shah Jahan?

Correct Answer: (b) Sultans of Delhi
Solution:

The Mahi Maratib was the highest honour in the Mughal empire. It symbolized honour bravery and strength and the mughal emperors only conferred it upon their highest dignataries.
This honour was instituted by shah Jahan arround 1632.
It was conferred by sultans of Delhi to Indian rulers.

58. Who built the Sahibabad Garden in Shahjahanabad which was used as a serai for the richest merchants?

Correct Answer: (c) Jahan Ara Begum
Solution:

Jahan Ara Begum built sahibabad garden in Sahjahanabad used as serai for the richest merchants. In 1650 Shahjahanabad shaped in the furnace of the Imperial women's ambition of the 19 major structures that mughal women will build in the city fourteen are completed by 1650 by the wives and daughters of Shah Jahan.

59. Sufism began to run pantheistic only when the ideas of Ibn al-Arabi (d. 1240) began to exert their influences, first, through the Persian poetry of Jalaluddhin Rumi (1207-73) and Abdur Rahman Jami (1414-92) and then through the endeavours within India of Ashraf Jahangir Semnani (early fifteenth century). About the same time that the pantheism of Shankaracharya School of Vedanta was attaining increasing influence within Brahmanical thought." From the following, identify the Mughal emperor who was the first to recognise the thought?

Correct Answer: (c) Jahangir
Solution:

Sufis were muslim mystics they rejected outward religiosity and emphasised love and devotion to god and compassion toward all fellow human beings.
• It also reflected Idol warship.
• They sought union with God much as lover seeks to beloved.
So, Jahangir Identified above statement.

60. With regard to Guru Nanak which of the following statements is NOT correct?

Correct Answer: (d) He travelled Srilanka, inspite of his will to travel kashmir, he never suceeded.
Solution:

Guru Nanak was born in April 1469 at Rai Bhai Ki Talvandi now in Pakistan. He was founder of Sikhism. Nanak's preaching are mentioned in Guru Granth Sahib a holy book for Sikhs. Last and tenth Guru of Sikhs was Guru Gobind Singh.