Indian History MCQ Set-18

Delhi Sultanate MCQ for SSC, UPSC , NDA, State PSC, Railway recruitment examinations, Police recruitment examinations and related government job recruitments examinations by the state governments and the union government of India.

Q.1 Who among the following was the first Sultan of Delhi?

A. Qutb al-Din Aibak

B. Ibrahim Lodi

C. Ulugh Khan

D. Muhammad Ghori

Answer: A. Qutb al-Din Aibak

Note: Qutb al-Din Aibak was the ruler of an independent kingdom that evolved into the Delhi Sultanate ruled by the Mamluk dynasty.

Q.2 Who among the following was the last Sultan of Delhi?

A. Malik Kafur

B. Ibrahim Lodhi

C. Ulugh Khan

D. Muhammad Ghori

Answer: B. Ibrahim Lodhi

Note: Ibrahim Lodi of Lodi dynasty was the last Sultan of Delhi Sultanate and the last ruler of the Lodi dynasty.

Q.3 How many dynasties ruled Delhi during the period of Delhi Sultanate?

A. 5

B. 6

C. 7

D. 4

Answer: A. 5

Note:  During this period of Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526), over three hundred years, five dynasties ruled in Delhi. These were: the Slave dynasty (1206-90), Khilji dynasty (1290-1320), Tughlaq dynasty (1320-1413), Sayyid dynasty (1414-51), and Lodhi dynasty (1451-1526).

Q.4 Who among the following is called as the “Slave of a Slave”?

A. Qutb al-Din Aibak

B. Ibrahim Lodi

C. Shams ud-Din Iltumish

D. None of these

Answer: C. Shams ud-Din Iltumish

Note: Shams ud-Din Iltumish was known as the “slave of a slave” as he succeeded Qutb al-Din Aibak founder of slave dynasty in India. Iltutmish is called the real founder of the slave dynasty.

Q.5 Which of the following Sultan of Delhi Sultanate to issue regular currency and to declare Delhi as the capital of his empire?

A. Qutb al-Din Aibak

B. Ibrahim Lodi

C. Shams ud-Din Iltumish

D. Ulugh Khan

Answer: C. Shams ud-Din Iltumish

Note: Shams ud-Din Iltumish introduced the silver tanka and the copper jital – the two basic coins of the Sultanate period.

Q.6 Which of the following Sultan of Delhi Sultanate is said to have begun the Islamic rule in Bengal?

A. Qutb al-Din Aibak

B. Ibrahim Lodi

C. Shams ud-Din Iltumish

D. Bakhtiyar Khalji

Answer: D. Bakhtiyar Khalji

Q.7 Who among the following Sultan of Delhi Sultanate was responsible for destruction of the Nalanda University

A. Bakhtiyar Khalji

B. Ulugh Khan

C. Ibrahim Lodhi

D. Qutb al-Din Aibak

Answer: A. Bakhtiyar Khalji

Q.8 Which among the following mean “Turkan-i-Chahalgani”?

A. A group 40 nobles

B. A tax system during the Delhi Sultanate era

C. Group of 40 Islamic representatives

D. None of these

Answer: A. A group 40 nobles 

Note: Turkan-i-Chahalgani was the council of 40 Turkic and non-Turkic nobles that administered the Delhi Sultanate under the Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate.

Q.9 Who among the following was the Sultan of Delhi Sultanate when Alauddin Khalji raided Devagiri?

A. Jalaluddin Khaliji

B, Ulugh Khan

C. Qutb al-Din Aibak

D. None of these

Answer: A. Jalaluddin Khaliji

Note: When Jalaluddin Khaliji was the Sultan of Delhi, Alauddin Khalji was the governor of Kara and he secretly raided Devagiri because he intended to use the wealth obtained from this raid for dethroning the Sultan.

Q.10 Who among the following was the founder of the Tughlaq Dynasty in Delhi?

A. Ghazi Malik

B. Ulugh Khan

C. Muhammad Bin Tughlaq

D. None of these

Answer: A. Ghazi Malik

Note: Ghazi Malik assumed the throne under the title of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq in 1320 and thus the Tughlaq dynasty started to rule Delhi.

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