Arrange the following events in a chronological sequence:
A. Giovanni Careri, passed through India
B. Humayun was defeated by Sher Shah
C. First phase of Humayun’s reign
D. Ain-i-Akbari was completed
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → C, B, D, A
(C) First phase of Humayun’s reign — 1530-40. Humayun ruled after his father Babur, the first Mughal emperor.
(B) Humayun was defeated by Sher Shah — 1540. After the defeat Humayun lived in exile at the Safavid court until 1555, when he won back his lost territories.
(D) Ain-i-Akbari was completed — 1598, in the forty-second year of Akbar’s reign. Abu’l Fazl wrote it at Akbar’s order, and it went through five revisions before it was finished.
(A) Giovanni Careri passed through India — c. 1690, during the reign of Aurangzeb. This Italian traveller described how silver travelled across the world to reach India.
NCERT (2025-26): “7. The Flow of Silver … The testimony of an Italian traveller, Giovanni Careri, who passed through India c. 1690, provides a graphic account about the way silver travelled across the globe to reach India. It also gives us an idea of the phenomenal amounts of cash and commodity transactions in seventeenth-century India. 8. The Ain-i Akbari of Abu’l Fazl Allami … The Ain-i Akbari was the culmination of a large historical, administrative project of classification undertaken by Abu’l Fazl at the order of Emperor Akbar. It was completed in 1598, the forty-second regnal year of the emperor, after having gone through five revisions.…”
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