UGC NET History Practice Question

Nuh Sipihr (The Nine Skies), a poetic work highlighting the cultural synthesis, languages, flora, and fauna of India, was written by:

Amir Khusrau ✓

Hasan Sijzi

Ziauddin Barani

Utbi

Amir Khusrau's Nuh Sipihr is notable for its enthusiastic, celebratory description of India's languages, climate, and natural wealth — often cited as an early expression of a distinctly Indo-Persian cultural identity and pride in India itself.

The French physician Francois Bernier, author of Travels in the Mogul Empire, was primarily attached to which Mughal prince as a physician?

Dara Shikoh ✓

Shah Shuja

Murad Bakhsh

Aurangzeb

Bernier served as physician to Dara Shikoh before the War of Succession, later remaining in India and writing his influential Travels in the Mogul Empire — a widely-read, if sometimes generalized, European perspective on Mughal state and society.

Ma'asir-i-Alamgiri, which completed the history of Aurangzeb's entire 50-year reign after his death, was written by:

Saqi Mustaid Khan ✓

Mirza Muhammad Kazim

Ishwardas Nagar

Bhimsen

Since Aurangzeb had discontinued official chronicling of his own reign after the Alamgirnama's early years, Saqi Mustaid Khan compiled the Ma'asir-i-Alamgiri after the emperor's death to provide a complete year-by-year record of the full 50-year reign.

Which Portuguese traveler visited Vijayanagara around 1520-1522 during the reign of Krishnadevaraya and left a detailed narrative?

Duarte Barbosa

Domingo Paes ✓

Fernao Nuniz

Garcia de Orta

Domingo Paes visited Vijayanagara during Krishnadevaraya's reign and left one of the most vivid eyewitness descriptions of the city's grandeur, markets, and court ceremony — a key independent source alongside Nuniz's later, more chronicle-focused account.

Chachnama, the primary source for the Arab conquest of Sind, was originally written in Arabic and translated into Persian by:

Ali Kufi ✓

Al-Baladhuri

Al-Masudi

Al-Beruni

The original Arabic account of Muhammad bin Qasim's conquest of Sind was translated into Persian by Ali Kufi in the 13th century as the Chachnama — the surviving Persian version is the main source historians rely on for the Arab conquest, the Arabic original being lost.

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