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.
Who authored Taj-ul-Ma'asir, the first official history of the Delhi Sultanate covering Qutbuddin Aibak and Iltutmish?
Hasan Nizami ✓
Minhaj-us-Siraj
Ziauddin Barani
Isami
Hasan Nizami's Taj-ul-Ma'asir is considered the first official history of the Delhi Sultanate, covering the reigns of Qutbuddin Aibak and the early years of Iltutmish — an important, if highly ornate and panegyric-style, early Sultanate source.
Amuktamalyada, a celebrated Telugu literary treatise on statecraft and administrative duties of a king, was composed by:
Allasani Peddana
Tenali Ramakrishna
Krishnadevaraya ✓
Nandi Thimmana
Krishnadevaraya himself composed the Amuktamalyada, a Telugu literary work that also lays out principles of statecraft and a king's duties — an unusually direct royal-authored source for Vijayanagara political ideology, alongside his patronage of the Ashtadiggajas.
The Ahom royal court chronicles of Assam, compiled meticulously in prose, are officially known as:
Buranjis ✓
Bakhars
Rajatarangini
Vansavalis
Buranjis are the official Ahom court chronicles of Assam, maintained systematically over centuries — a distinctive regional chronicling tradition, comparable in function to Marathi Bakhars but a genre of its own with real administrative record-keeping rigor.
Ma'asir-ul-Umara, a comprehensive biographical encyclopedia of Mughal nobility, was compiled by:
Shah Nawaz Khan (and his son Abdul Hayy) ✓
Khafi Khan
Sujan Rai Bhandari
Abul Fazl
Shah Nawaz Khan, later completed by his son Abdul Hayy, compiled the Ma'asir-ul-Umara, a vast biographical dictionary of Mughal nobles and officers — an essential prosopographical source for reconstructing the careers of individual Mughal administrators.
Which foreign traveler provided a vivid eye-witness description of the Sati practice in the Mughal Empire during Shah Jahan's reign?
Peter Mundy
Tavernier
Bernier ✓
Manucci
Bernier's Travels in the Mogul Empire includes a widely cited firsthand description of Sati witnessed during his time in Mughal India — European travelogues like his are frequently used (with appropriate caution about bias) as social-history sources on such practices.
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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.
