CLASS XII OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS -Theme 5 Questions

HISTORY CLASS-XII

L-5 THROUGH THE EYES OF TRAVELLERS

	OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS
Q1) Match the correct options
TRAVELLERS	NATIVE PLACE	TIME	BOOK
A) AL-BIRUNI	MOROCCO	11th C	TRAVELS IN MUGHAL
B) IBN BATTUTA	FRANCE	17th C	KITAB-UL-HIND
C) FRANCOIS BERNIER	UZBEKISTAN	14th C	RIHLA

Q2)  AL-Biruni was not equipped in______________Language.

Q3) How Al-Beruni reached  Ghazni ?

Q4) Name the traveller who was appointed Qazi by the Muhammad Bin Tughlaq ?

Q5) Name the traveller who have mentioned India as strange nation when he saw the populated port of Calicut.

Q6) In how many chapters Kitab-Ul-Hind was divided?

Q7) Mention the distinctive structure adopted by Al-Biruni in his writings? Q8) In which language Kitab-Ul-Hind was written ?

Q9) Mention any two languages from which Al-Biruni translated into Arabic

Q10) Name the traveller to belong to respectable and educated family known for their expertise in Sharia ?

Q11) Name the Portuguese who wrote a detailed account of trade and society in south India . Q12) Name the portuguese who translated Indian text into European language.

Q13) Name the French who travelled to India six times and fascinated with the trading conditions in India.

Q14) Name the French traveller who compared India to Iran and the Ottoman Empire. Q15) Name the Italian doctor who settled down in India and never return back.

Q16) Name the French doctor and Philosopher who came to India during Mughal rule. Q17) Francois Bernier was physician to_____________.

Q18) Francois Bernier was appointed as Intellectual and Scientist by ____________. Q19) Bernier dedicated his major writings to ____________.

Q20) Who saw India as a bleak situation in comparison to development in Europe ?

Q21) Who said that Sanskrit was different from Arabic and Persian and concepts could not be easily translated ?

Q22) Name the traveller who faced problem of differences in religious belief and practices ? Q23) What is the literal meaning of Antyaja ?

Q24) Who disapproved the notion of pollution in caste system? Q25) Name the traveller appointed as Qazi by Mohd. Bin Tuglaq.

Q26) Mention Two things which were new to IBN BATTUTA.

Q27) Name the traveller who was amazed by efficiency of the Postal system in India. Q28) Who was a Firm believer in the virtues of private property ?

Q29) Name the traveller who believed that the crown ownership of land as being harmful for the people as well as the state ?

Q30) Name the traveller who said that the fundamental difference between India and Europe was lack of property ?

Q31) Who said that there is no middle class in India ?

Q32) Who said that Mughal king is the king of beggars and barbarians ?

Q33) Name the writer who described the land revenue system as remuneration of sovereignty under Mughals?

Q34) Who used the account of Bernier to develop the idea of oriental despotism in Asia ? Q35) Who founded the concept of the Asiatic mode of production in 19th century ?

Q36)Name the traveller who noticed the existence of prosperous merchant community engaged in long distance trade

Q37) Who had translated the work of Euclid, a greek Mathematician, in the Sanskrit ? Q38)In which language Al-Biruni translated Patanjali’s Grammar ?

Q39)                            is the science of measurement.

Q40) Who referred the people of East of Indus as Hindu, their land Hindustan and their language as Hindavi ?

Q41)Arabs called The Region East of the river Sindhu as ________________.

Q42) Who said “Robbers were not the only hazard for long journeys the travelers could feel homesick or fall ill” ?

Q43)Who described India as “A Strange Nation” ?

Q44) Whose travelogue is an interesting mixture of Emotions and Perceptions?

Q45)What was not appreciated by Abdur Razzaq in India? Q46) What was appreciated by Abdur Razzaq?

Q47)Name the Dutch traveller who visited India in 17th Century ? Q48) Who was shocked to see widespread poverty in India?

Q49)Who said “Poverty is so great and miserable that the life of the people was as the home of

Shark and the dwelling place of bitter woe” ?

Q50)who said “So much is wrong from the peasants that even dry bread is scarcely left to fill their stomach” ?

Q51)Who described Mughal cities as “Camp towns” ?

Q52)Bernier described the group of Merchants in western India as-----------------------------

Q53) Name the traveller who had described about the Prevalence of slavery in India ? Q54) ____________ came to India in 1620’s and became sanyasi.

Q55) ____________________ came to North India in 1740’s and was disappointed with Indian condition.

Q56) Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi came to ______________ part of India in 1440’s.