Test: Indo Islamic Culture - 2 - UPSC MCQ

Match the following provincial architectural structure with the rulers who built them:

The Atala Devi masjid and the Lal-Darwaza mosque were built by the Sharqis who ruled over

Minarets were absent in the building of

The most ambitious structure of its kind ever raised in eastern India was the Adina Masjid at Pandua. It was built by

The Dakhil Darwaza is a striking form of the Bengal style of architecture. It is to be found in the ruins of

In which province brick and timber were the principal building materials?

Which of the following provinces was a seat of Hindu craftsmanship?

The tall curved spiral roof and the mandapam (ante-room) were features of which style of architecture?

Match the following architectural works with the centuries in which they were built:

Mitakshara was a famous Hindu school of law.It is associated with

Match the following works with their authors who wrote in Sanskrit:

In about A.D. 1300, a number of works on the Mimamsa were written by

Lakshmidhara wrote Smritikalpataru . Its subject matter is

Vidagha Madhava and Lalita Madhava were written by

Smriti literature flourished in Mithila and Bengal. Two of its outstanding authors were :

Which of the following was a famous commentator on the Vedas?

In the domain of literature the greatest gift on the Muslims is

Which city emerged as the first centre for the cultivation of the Persian language?

Who wrote Fatawa-i-Jahandari?

The Hindu work, Khaliq Bari, is often atributed to

The vocabulary of Urdu has been drawn from

Match the following with their authors:

Match the following with their authors:

Which of the following Sanskrit scholars wrote Rajavinoda, a biography of Sultan Mahmud Begarha of Gujarat?

Which of the following were responsible for introducing a change in Jain miniature paintings by the fifteenth century by introducing paper?

The book Tuti Name (Book of the Parrot), written in the time of Muhammad Tughlaq, became popular and was translated from Persian into Turkish. Its author was

Who got Rajtarangani and Mahabharata translated into Persian?