UGC NET History Practice Question

Nuskha-i-Dilkasha, an indispensable contemporary primary source for Mughal military operations in the Deccan under Aurangzeb, was written by:

Bhimsen Saxena ✓

Ishwardas Nagar

Sujan Rai Bhandari

Saqi Mustaid Khan

Bhimsen Saxena, a Hindu official who personally served in the Deccan campaigns, wrote the Nuskha-i-Dilkasha as a firsthand military-administrative account, valuable precisely because it offers a participant's, rather than a court chronicler's, view.

The historical text Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi (a separate work continuing from Barani's coverage) was composed by:

Shams-i Siraj Afif ✓

Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi

Minhaj-us-Siraj

Fakhr-i Mudabbir

Shams-i Siraj Afif wrote his own, separate Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi focused specifically and admiringly on Firoz Shah Tughlaq's reign, distinct from — and continuing chronologically after — Barani's earlier work of the same title.

Which foreign traveler visited the court of Vijayanagara King Devaraya II as an ambassador of the Timurid ruler Shahrukh of Herat?

Nicolo Conti

Abdur Razzak ✓

Athanasius Nikitin

Domingo Paes

Abdur Razzak visited Vijayanagara as an official ambassador of the Timurid ruler Shahrukh during Devaraya II's reign, leaving a detailed formal account of court ceremony and the city's prosperity, distinct from later independent travelers like Paes.

Kitab-fi-Tahqiq-i-mali-l-Hind (Al-Biruni's India) was composed in Arabic during the 11th century following Al-Biruni's travels alongside:

Muhammad Ghori

Mahmud of Ghazni ✓

Subuktigin

Muhammad bin Qasim

Al-Biruni accompanied Mahmud of Ghazni's campaigns into India and used the access this gave him to write his remarkably systematic and comparatively fair-minded study of Indian science, religion, and society, still regarded as a landmark of early cross-cultural scholarship.

The Tazkirat-ul-Waqiat, an intimate biographical account of Emperor Humayun, was written by his ewer-bearer named:

Gulbadan Begum

Jauhar Aftabchi ✓

Bayazid Bayat

Khwandamir

Jauhar Aftabchi, Humayun's personal ewer-bearer (attendant), wrote the Tazkirat-ul-Waqiat, offering an intimate, servant's-eye account of the emperor's difficult years of exile and eventual return — a different vantage point from official court chronicles.

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