What was the role of the zamindar in Mughal administration?

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?

What were the major ideas expressed by Kabir? How did he express these?

The Buddha                               namghar
Shankaradeva                          worship of Vishnu
Nizamuddin Auliya                    questioned social differences
Nayanars                                  Sufi saint
Alvars                                       worship of Shiva

What is meant by the “internal” and “external” frontiers of the Sultanate?

How did a temple communicate the importance of a king?

What changes took place in varna-based society?

How was water supplied to the city of Thanjavur?

What kinds of exchanges took place between nomadic pastoralists and settled agriculturists?

What are the important architectural features of the temples of Bengal ?

What are the difficulties historians face in using manuscripts?

How were the affairs of jatis regulated?