Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: An Imperial Capital: Vijayanagara

Question:

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

List 1

List 2

(a) Colonel Colin Mackenzie

(i) Gajapati

(b) Rulers of Orissa

(ii) discovered ruins at Hampi

(c) Deccan Sultans  

(iii) was impressed by the fortification of Vijayanagara

(d) Abdur Razzaq

(iv) Ashvapati

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

Options:

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

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

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

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

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) Colonel Colin Mackenzie

(ii) discovered ruins at Hampi

(b) Rulers of Orissa

(i) Gajapati

(c) Deccan Sultans  

(iv) Ashvapati

(d) Abdur Razzaq

(iii) was impressed by the fortification of Vijayanagara

Explanation:

The ruins at Hampi were brought to light in 1800 by an engineer and antiquarian named Colonel Colin Mackenzie.

Rulers of Orissa were called Gajapati. Gajapati literally means lord of elephants. This was the name of a ruling lineage that was very powerful in Orissa in the fifteenth century.

In the popular traditions of Vijayanagara the Deccan Sultans are termed as ashvapati or lord of horses and the rayas are called narapati or lord of men.

Abdur Razzaq, an ambassador sent by the ruler of Persia to Calicut (present-day Kozhikode) in the fifteenth century, was greatly impressed by the fortifications and mentioned seven lines of forts.