Short answer type questions:
1. How did the Mughal Empire get its name?
2. How did Humayun lose his throne? When did he recover it?
3. Discuss about the army in the Mughal Empire.
4. What caused revolts during Aurangzeb's reign?
5. what happened in the war of succession between Aurangzeb and his brothers
Long answer type questions
1. Write about Akbar's Mansabdari system,
2. Write about Akbar's Land Revenue system
3.How did aurangzeb reverse the policies of akbar
Answers
Answer:
1. Babur and the descendants of babur were called themselves Mughals, which meant Mongol in common speech. So, the empire came to be known as the Mughal Empire.
2.After the attack of Sher Shah Suri, the governor of Bengal province, Humayun had to flee to Persia. He reclaimed his empire in 1555.
3.The Mughal Army comprised of infantry, cavalry and the cannons in later era.
4.The intolerant nature of Aurangzeb against the hindus and sikhs was the cause of many revolts. His policy of iron fists also caused nobles to revolt.
5.Aurangzeb won the war and mercilessly killed his brothers.
Answer:
The name Mughal or Moghul is a corruption of the Persian word for Mongol, the Central Asian tribe after whom Mongolia is named.
2.Humayun lost his throne after sher shah defeated twice. ... When Sher shah's son ascended the throne Humayun defeated him with the help of his Persian king friend.
3.The Mughal Emperors maintained small standing armies. The emperor's own troops were called Ahadis. They were directly recruited by the Mughal emperor himself, mainly from the emperor's own blood relatives and tribesmen. They had their own pay roll and pay master, and were better paid than regular horsemen sowars.
4.In 1675 Aurangzeb arrested and executed the Sikh Guru (spiritual leader) Tegh Bahadur, who had refused to embrace Islam; the succeeding Guru, Gobind Singh, was in open rebellion for the rest of Aurangzeb's reign. Other agrarian revolts, such as those of the Jats, were largely secular
5.The Mansabdari system was the administrative system introduced by Akbar in Mughal Empire during 1571. The word 'Mansab' is of Arabic origin meaning rank or position. Hence, Mansabdari was a system of ranking the government officials and determined their civil & military duties, along with their renumerations.
Explanation:
6.The Mughal revenue system was based on the division of the empire into subas or governorships, sarkars or districts, and parganas, consisting of number of villages which were sometimes styled mahals. (These were replaced during British rule by the somewhat large tehsils or talukas.)