1. LIST TWO STEPS TAKEN BY NIZAM-UL-MULK-ASAF JHA TO STRENGTHEN HIS KINGDOM?
2. WHO COMPILED THE SIKH RELIGIOUS BOOK CALLED THE ADI GRANTH?
3. WHAT IS GUERILLA WARFARE?
4. WHAT IS CHAUTH?
5. WHAT IS SARDESHMUKH?
6. DEFINE THE FOLLOWING TERMS: -
· JAZIYA
· WATAN JAGIR
· GURUMUKHI
· DIWANI
7. WHAT WERE THE CAUSES OF THE DECLINE OF THE MUGHAL POWER IN INDIA?
8. WHICH FOREIGN INVADERS CAME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CRISIS IN 1739? (NADIR SHAH AND AHMAD SHAH ABDALI)
9. GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF MARATHA KINGDOM
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1=He brought skilled soldiers and administrators from northern India who welcomed the new opportunities in the south. 2) He appointed mansabdars and granted jagirs.
2=Sikh Guru Arjun
3=Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars.
4=Chauth was a regular tax or tribute imposed, from early 18th century, by the Maratha Empire in the Indian subcontinent.
5=Sardeshmukhi was a charge equal to one-tenth of the land revenue which a hereditary Deshmukh, in the time of the Mughals.
6=Jizyah, also spelled jizya, historically, a tax (the term is often incorrectly translated as a “head tax” or “poll tax”) paid by non-Muslim populations to their Muslim rulers
-Watan jagirs were persons who collected taxes from each village and gave them to mansabdars.
-the alphabet that the sacred texts of the Sikhs in whatever language are written in and that is also used by the Sikhs in secular writing in Panjabi.
-diwani means collecting the revenue on behalf of the emperor this was given by shah alam 2 to the english east India Company after they lost the battle of buxar in 1764.
7=Wars of Succession: The Mughals did not follow any law of succession like the law of primogeniture. ...
Aurangzeb's Policies: .
8= In the middle of the economic and political crisis, the ruler of Iran, Nadir Shah, attacked and plundered the city of Delhi in 1739. He took away immense amount of wealth. A series of plundering raids by the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Abdali occurred afterwards.
9=The Marathas became prominent in the 17th century under the leadership of Shivaji Maharaj, who revolted against the Adil Shahi dynasty, and carved out a kingdom with Raigad as his capital.
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