ML Answer the following in one sentence.
1. How do royal decrees help historians?
2. Name two biographies and two autobio
graphies written during the medieval period.
3. What are dohas?
4. What is calligraphy?
5. How do writings of foreign travellers help in reconstructing history?
I. Answer the following questions in brief.
1. Write about the periodisation of Indian history especially in the medieval period.
2 What do you know about the materials that were used while writing literary works in the
period in India?
3. What are the court chronicles? Give examples.
4. What were the major historical developments during the medieval period?
V. Answer the following questions in detail
1. In what ways has the meaning of the term 'Hindustan' changed over the centuries?
Answers
Answer:
Royal decree are the orders of king and queen or the mention of royal orders . it is a source of historical evidence for historians regarding that particular time.
Akbar nama written by Abul fazal and Padshah nama written by Abdul hamid lahori
Autobiographies -Tuzuki babari written by babar and
Tuzuki - Jahangiri written by jahangir.
3.Dohas is a form of self contained rhyming couplet in poetry composed in Matrika metre . for eg. dohas of kabir ,dohas of Tulsidas.4. calligrsphy is an art of beautifully writting using special pen and brush .
5.Foriegn travellers visited india and spent many years there. they wrote about india like Ibn Batuta wrote kitab ul Rehla , which gives detailed information about 13 to 14 century . some historical events are not mentoined in indian native history like invasion of Alexender in 300 bc ,we know about it from foriegn accounts.
periodations of medival india -
early mediva period -:600 -1200 A.D
Later medival period-: 1300- 1600 A.D
late medival period1 or early modern period 1600,-1800 A.D.
3. court chronicles are documents written in courts by court poets like Abas khan sherwani wrote Tarikhi -shershahi.
4.During medival peroid many foriegners visited india and wrote about india . Tehnology of warfare were introduced like gunpowder. coins were used by rulers . Beautiful buildings and mounoments were constructed. Agriculture and trade was improved.
1. The term hindustan was used by persians and mughals for areas around indus river then it was used by inhabitants of india as hind after partition it continued as the name for Reoubic of india.