pyq/2022/history-optional-i/5

Answer the following questions in about 150 words each : (10x5=50)

(a) What were ‘Brahmadeya’ grants? How do you account for the large number of such grants in the early medieval period? (10 marks, 150 words)

(b) The establishment of large number of urban settlements in North India in the thirteenth century was principally owing to the deployment of Turkish garrisons across the lands. Comment. (10 marks, 150 words)

(c) Much of the political instability after the death of Iltutmish was the doing of the Chahalgan. Elucidate. (10 marks, 150 words)

(d) The Rajput school of painting was Mughal in style and Rajput in its content. Comment. (10 marks, 150 words)

(e) Account for the rise of the Maratha power in the eighteenth century. (10 marks, 150 words)