MCQ on Delhi Sultanate Administration

Question 1. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched? 

(A) Diwan-i-Arz – Muhammad Tughluq

(B) Diwan-i-Kohi – Alauddin Khalji

(C) Diwan-i-Mustakhraj – Balban

(D) Diwan-i-Bandagan – Tughluq

Question 2. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(A) Diwan-i-Riyasat – Balban

(B) Diwan-i-Khairat – Firuz Tughluq

(C) Diwan-i-Amir Kohi – Muhammad Tughluq

(D) Diwan-i-Mushtakharaj – Alauddin Khalji

Question 3.The historian Baruni refused to consider the state in India under Delhi Sultans as truly Islamic because_______.

(A) The religious freedom was accorded to non-Muslims

(B) The Sultan supplemented the Muslim law by framing his regulations

(C) The Muslim theologists were often disregarded

(D) The majority of the population did not follow Islam

Question 4. The most rulers (amirs) and sultans of Sultanate period belonged to class.

(A) Arabs

(B) Tatars

(C) Mongols

(D) Turkish

Question 5. ‘Diwan-E-Arj’ department was associated with_______.

(A) Finance

(B) Defence

(C) Foreign

(D) Royal correspondence

Question 6. Which one of the following dynasties saw the heyday of the Wizarat? 

(A) The Lodi

(B) The Tughluq

(C) The Khalji

(D) The Ilbari

Question 7. Which medieval king of India introduced the ‘Iqta system’?

(A) Iltutmish

(B) Alauddin Khalji

(C) Balban

(D) None of the above

Question 8. Supreme rural officials of land revenue in Sultanate period?

(A) Patwari

(B) Malik

(C) Ravat

(D) Chaudhary

Question 9. ‘Sharb’ was a tax levied on________.

(A) Industry

(B) Non-Muslims

(C) Irrigation

(D) Trade

Question 10. Zawabits were concerned with________.

(A) Agricultural taxes

(B) Laws regulating mint house

(C) Law regulating mansab system

(D) State laws

Question 11. Hadis is________.

(A) Mansabdar

(B) Tax of Sultanate period

(C) Settlement Law

(D) Islamic Law

Question 12. Fawazil in the Sultanate period meant_______.

(A) Illegal exactions extracted from the peasants

(B) Excess amount paid to the exchequer by the Iqtadars

(C) Revenue assigned in lieu of salary

(D) Extra payment to the nobles

Question 13. Who among the following started ‘Tanka’ silver coin?

(A) Balban

(B) Iltutmish

(C) Qutbuddin Aybak

(D) Alauddin Khalji

Question 14. Who was the medieval king responsible for introducing the silver coin called ‘Tanka’ in North India?

(A) Muhammad Tughluq

(B) Alauddin Khalji

(C) Razia

(D) Iltutmish

Question 15. Coins-Tanka, Shashgani and Jital of Sultanate period was made of which of the following metals?

(A) Gold, Zinc, Copper

(B) Silver, Zinc, Copper

(C) Gold, Silver, Copper

(D) Silver, Copper

Question 16. On whose coins the name of the last Caliph of Baghdad appeared for the first time? 

(A) Alauddin Masud Shah

(B) Alauddin Khalji

(C) Iltutmish

(D) Qutbuddin Aybak

Question 17. Match List-I and List-II and choose your answer from the code given below.

Question 18. Which of the following indicates taxes levied on the land product?

1.  Kharaj
2.  Khums
3.  Ushr
4.  Muktai

Select your answer from the following code.

(A) Only 1, 3 and 4

(B) Only 1, 2 and 3

(C) Only 2 and 3

(D) Only 1

Question 19. Find out the two main currencies of the Sultanate period from the code given below.

1. Dam
2. Jital
3. Rupiya
4. Tanka

(A) 2 and 4

(B) 2 and 3

(C) 1 and 3

(D) 1 and 2