Question

1. Name the two foreign travelers whose accounts helps us to know about the towns flourished in the medieval period.
2.Ralph Fitch described which place as bigger as and more populous than London.
3. Which Mughal ruler made Delhi as his capital and named it Shahjahanabad?
4. Name the daughter of Shah-Jahan.
5. Which shopping complex was made by Shah-Jahan’s daughter in Delhi?
6. Name five famous temple towns.
7. Name two dargahs of famous sufi saints.
8. For which work Bidar was famous?
9. What was the capital of the kingdom of Golconda?
10. Name a prominent center for different kinds of silk fabrics.
11. Name a famous center of horse trade. ​

Answer 1

1. Sir Thomas Roe and Ralph Fitch

2. Fatehpur Sikri.

3. The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, the grandson of Akbar.

4. Jahanara Begum.

5. The historic Chandni Chowk.

6. Kedarnath, Badrinath, Rishikesh, Ujjain, Haridwar.

7. Dargah of Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki, Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia.

8. Bidri handicraft products.

9. Hyderabad.

10. Important centres of silk textiles each from different states:

Karnataka: Mysore, Kolar, Mandya, Tumkur

West Bengal: Bishnupur, Baswa, Bankura

Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Salem

Andhra Pradesh and Telangana: Kurnool and Adilabad districts respectively.

Assam: Goalpara, Kamrup

Bihar: Palamau, Hazaribagh

Jammu and Kashmir: Anantnag, Doda

Chhattisgarh: Bilaspur, Bastar

11. Suchandra Ghosh.