Question

III. Answer in brief.
1.
What was known as a gasba in medieval India?
2.
Name a city that was both an administrative
and a trade centre during the Mughal Period,
3. Name one important religious town or city from
the south, east, west and north of India.
4. Name four crafts in which the people of
Medieval India were involved.
5. Write a short note on palampore cloth.
6. What is kalamkari work? Why is it called so?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.during the sultanate period (13th to 16th centuries) many of the villages district slowly grew into towns known as gasba

2.surat and a port city in Gujarat

3.katra

4.spinnig, weaving and printing

5.palampore were primarily exported to Europe and to dutch colonists in Indonesia

6.kalamkari is a type of hand painted or block painted cloth