From the free UGC NET History Mock Test 4 — Unit 4: Sources of Medieval Indian History unit-wise mock test — real question, real answer, real explanation.
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.
Who authored the Humayunnama, providing crucial insights into court life and royal women during early Mughal rule?
Maham Anaga
Gulbadan Begum ✓
Hamida Banu Begum
Nur Jahan
Gulbadan Begum, Babur's daughter and Humayun's half-sister, wrote the Humayunnama at Akbar's request — a rare and valuable source written by a Mughal woman, offering perspective on royal domestic and female life largely absent from male court chronicles.
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Itihaaskar — UGC NET/JRF & UPSC History Optional notes by Parveen Malik (B.Tech. (CSE), M.A. (History), History JRF). Also spelt Itihaskar.
