What is a shikhara?

What are the difficulties historians face in using manuscripts?

What changes took place in varna-based society?

In what ways has the meaning of the term “Hindustan” changed over the centuries?

Do you think merchants and bankers today have the kind of influence they had in the eighteenth century?

What were the policies adopted by Asaf Jah to strengthen his position?

How do historians divide the past into periods? Do they face any problems in doing so?

How were the Sikhs organised in the eighteenth century?

What was the impact of the Mongol invasions on the Delhi Sultanate?

How was the administration of the Ahom state organised?

Why do you think many teachers rejected prevalent religious beliefs and practices?

Who lived in the “Black Towns” in cities such as Madras?

What were the major beliefs and practices of the Sufis?

Why do you think towns grew around temples?

How important were craftspersons for the building and maintenance of temples?

An inscription in Shah Jahan’s diwan-i khas in Delhi stated: “If there is Paradise on Earth, it is here, it is here, it is here.” How was this image created?

What role did the Yamuna play in the layout of the new Mughal city at Shahjahanabad?

What are the difficulties historians face in using manuscripts?

Fill in the blanks:
(a) Archives are places where ——————— are kept.
(b) —————— was a fourteenth-century chronicler.
(c) ——, ———, ———, ——— and ——— were some of the new crops introduced into the subcontinent during this period.

Why were the Delhi Sultans interested in cutting down forests? Does deforestation occur for the same reasons today?

How was the administration of the Ahom state organised?