Q40. The First Battle of Tarain occurred in which year?
[SSC Stenographer — 2019]
A. 1178
B. 1191
C. 1192
D. 1194
Answer: B. 1191
Explanation: Muhammad Ghori’s 1191 campaign ended in defeat at Tarain. He returned in 1192 and used mobile cavalry tactics to secure a decisive victory.
Q39. Muhammad Ghori’s victory over Prithviraj in 1192 was aided principally by which military advantage?
[APPSC Group-I — 2019]
A. Gunpowder artillery
B. Superior Turkish cavalry and military technology
C. European infantry
D. Naval superiority
Answer: B. Superior Turkish cavalry and military technology
Explanation: Mobile mounted archers, superior horses and tactical flexibility contributed significantly to the Ghurid victory over the more traditionally organised Rajput forces at Tarain.
Q38. Rajasthan’s folk deity Gogaji is traditionally regarded as a contemporary of which invader?
[RPSC — 2019]
A. Muhammad-bin-Qasim
B. Mahmud of Ghazni
C. Muhammad Ghori
D. Timur
Answer: B. Mahmud of Ghazni
Explanation: Rajasthan traditions place Gogaji around the period of Mahmud’s eleventh-century invasions, linking regional heroic traditions with resistance to external incursions.
Q37. Which Ghurid commander became associated with Delhi and northern India after Muhammad Ghori’s death?
[MPSC Rajyaseva — 2019]
A. Qutb-ud-din Aibak
B. Bakhtiyar Khalji
C. Yildiz
D. Qubacha
Answer: A. Qutb-ud-din Aibak
Explanation: After Ghori’s death, his former commanders controlled separate regions: Aibak dominated Delhi, Qubacha Sindh, Yildiz Ghazni and Bakhtiyar’s successors eastern territories.
Q36. In which year did Muhammad Ghori begin his Indian campaigns by attacking Multan?
[SSC CPO — 2019]
A. 1089
B. 1175
C. 1287
D. 1475
Answer: B. 1175
Explanation: Ghori captured Multan in 1175 as an early step in his eastward expansion. His subsequent campaigns increasingly targeted the politically divided north Indian kingdoms.
Q35. Who wrote Kitab-ul-Hind?
[WBCS Preliminary Examination — 2018]
A. Al-Masudi
B. Al-Biruni
C. Sulaiman
D. Firdausi
Answer: B. Al-Biruni
Explanation: Al-Biruni’s multidisciplinary study provides detailed observations about Indian religion, science, caste, geography and customs during the age of Mahmud of Ghazni.
Q34. Prithviraj Chauhan was defeated by Muhammad Ghori in which battle?
[RRB Group D — 2018]
A. First Battle of Tarain
B. Second Battle of Tarain
C. Chandawar
D. Khanwa
Answer: B. Second Battle of Tarain
Explanation: Ghori’s 1192 victory at the Second Battle of Tarain marked a decisive shift in the political balance of northern India in favour of Turkish forces.
Q33. Who was the author of Kitab-ul-Hind?
[RRB Group D — 2018]
A. Al-Biruni
B. Ibn Battuta
C. Barani
D. Firdausi
Answer: A. Al-Biruni
Explanation: Al-Biruni’s Arabic account reflects years of engagement with Sanskrit scholarship and provides an unusually comparative study of Indian intellectual and social life.
Q32. Al-Biruni came into India in connection with the campaigns of which ruler?
[RRB Group D — 2018]
A. Mahmud of Ghazni
B. Muhammad Ghori
C. Iltutmish
D. Alauddin Khalji
Answer: A. Mahmud of Ghazni
Explanation: Al-Biruni became associated with the Ghaznavid court after Mahmud conquered Khwarazm and later gained extensive firsthand knowledge of Indian learning and society.
Q31. In which year did Qutb-ud-din Aibak become an independent ruler?
[RRB Group D — 2018]
A. 1191
B. 1192
C. 1206
D. 1211
Answer: C. 1206
Explanation: Muhammad Ghori died in 1206. Aibak thereafter established independent rule over important former Ghurid territories in India, inaugurating the Delhi Sultanate’s Mamluk dynasty.
