Arrange these royal acts at Khwaja Muinuddin's dargah in chronological order:
(A) Akbar offers a huge cauldron (degh) to help cook food for pilgrims
(B) Muhammad bin Tughlaq becomes the first Sultan to visit the shrine
(C) Sultan Ghiyasuddin Khalji of Malwa funds the earliest building to house the tomb
(D) Shaikhs greet the Mughal emperor Jahangir on his pilgrimage to Ajmer
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → B, C, A, D
(B) Muhammad bin Tughlaq becomes the first Sultan to visit the shrine — First. Muhammad bin Tughlaq ruled 1324-51 and was the first Sultan to visit the shrine.
(C) Sultan Ghiyasuddin Khalji of Malwa funds the earliest building to house the tomb — Second. Khalji's building came in the late fifteenth century, long after Tughlaq's visit.
(A) Akbar offers a huge cauldron (degh) to help cook food for pilgrims — Third. Akbar offered the degh in 1568, during visits he kept up until 1580.
(D) Shaikhs greet the Mughal emperor Jahangir on his pilgrimage to Ajmer — Fourth. Manohar's painting of Jahangir's pilgrimage dates to c.1615, after Akbar's time.
NCERT (2026-27): “7.2 Chishti devotionalism: ziyarat and qawwali … “first Sultan to visit the shrine, but the earliest construction to house the tomb was funded in the late fifteenth century by Sultan Ghiyasuddin Khalji of Malwa. Since the shrine was located on the trade route linking Delhi and Gujarat, it attracted a lot of travellers.” “By the sixteenth century the shrine had become very popular; in fact it was the spirited singing of pilgrims bound for Ajmer that inspired Akbar to visit the tomb. He went there fourteen times, sometimes two or three times a year, to seek blessings for new conquests, fulfilment of vows, and the birth of sons. He maintained this tradition until 1580. Each of these visits was celebrated by generous gifts, which were recorded in imperial documents. For example, in 1568 he offered a huge cauldron (degh) to facilitate cooking for pilgrims. He also had a mosque constructed within the compound of the dargah.” “Fig. 6.13 Shaikhs greeting the Mughal emperor Jahangir on his pilgrimage to Ajmer, painting by an artist named Manohar, c.1615” |