UGC NET History Practice Question

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.

The chronicle Tarikh-i-Mubaraksahi, the sole contemporary primary source for the history of the Sayyid Dynasty of Delhi, was written by:

Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi ✓

Rizqullah Mushtaqi

Ali Muhammad Khan

Khwandamir

Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi's Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi is the only substantial contemporary chronicle covering the short-lived Sayyid dynasty, making it disproportionately important for reconstructing this transitional, poorly-documented period of Sultanate history.

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