Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Through the Eyes of Travellers

Question:

Match the following options in List 1 correctly with those in List 2:

List 1

List 2

(a) Mandwi Darwaza

(i) Uluq

(b) Horse-post

(ii) Grain market

(c) Budaun Darwaza 

(iii) Dawa

(d) Foot-Post

(iv) Greatest Darwaza of Delhi

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

Options:

(a)- iv, (b)- iii, (c)- ii, (d) i

(a)- ii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d) iii

(a)- iv, (b)- iii, (c)- i, (d) ii

(a)- i, (b)- ii, (c)- iv, (d) iii

Correct Answer:

(a)- ii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d) iii

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2 - (a)- ii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d) iii

The correct Match is:

List 1

List 2

(a) Mandwi Darwaza

(ii) Inside it there was a Grain market

(b) Horse-post

(i) Uluq

(c) Budaun Darwaza 

(iv) Greatest Darwaza of Delhi

(d) Foot-Post

(iii) Dawa

Explanation:

Ibn Battuta’s account of Delhi stated that there were twenty eight gates of this city which are called darwaza, and of these, the Budaun darwaza is the greatest; inside the Mandwi darwaza there is a grain market; adjacent to the Gul darwaza there is an orchard.

This is how Ibn Battuta describes the postal system: In India the postal system is of two kinds. The horsepost, called uluq, is run by royal horses stationed at a distance of every four miles. The foot-post has three stations per mile; it is called dawa, that is one-third of a mile ... Now, at every third of a mile there is a wellpopulated village, outside which are three pavilions in which sit men with girded loins ready to start. Each of them carries a rod, two cubits in length, with copper bells at the top.