Arrange the following historical events in a chronological order:
(A) Humayun defeated by Sher Shah
(B) The ‘diwani’ of Bengal transferred to the East India Company
(C) Babur defeats Ibrahim Lodi
(D) Completion of Ain-i Akbari
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (C), (A), (D), (B)
(C) Babur defeats Ibrahim Lodi — 1526. Babur defeated the Delhi Sultan at Panipat and became the first Mughal emperor.
(A) Humayun defeated by Sher Shah — 1540. After the defeat Humayun lived in exile at the Safavid court until 1555.
(D) Completion of Ain-i Akbari — 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.
(B) The ‘diwani’ of Bengal transferred to the East India Company — 1765, the latest of the four events, more than a century and a half after the Ain was completed.
NCERT (2025-26): “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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