Prelims High-Yield Explanations & Traps

• the evidence for rebellions
• that Aurangzeb insulted
• in the formation of Akbar’s ideas on governance?
• was the income from land revenue to
• for the Mughals to recruit
• today?
• in an age of rapid political change
• the small tank in the Jami
• ruler at that time
• architectural innovations
• aspects of Mughal
• how the
• how the garden palaces of
• centres of trade
• pattern of
• temple towns included
• part of
• from the sixteenth century
• role in the construction of palaces, big
• of carrying stones

Essential Definitions & Formulas

Which do you think

a fairer division of inheritance: primogeniture or coparcenary ? Mughal Relations with Other Rulers Take a look at Table 1 once again.

The third volume

the Ain-i Akbari.

Akbari

its rich statistical details about things as diverse as crops, yields, prices, wages and revenues.

The adjoining document

an order (farman) of Nur Jahan.

Bigot An individual who

intolerant of another person’s religious beliefs or culture.

As in the wide expanse of the divine compassion there

room for all classes and the followers of all creeds, so .

India today

also made up of many social and cultural units.

Notice that the surface of the minar

curved and angular.

The Qutb Minar

five storeys high.

Bundi in Rajasthan

the largest among the fifty step wells that were built to meet the need for water.

Can you make out that the shikhara of the Rajarajeshvara temple

twice as high as that of the Kandariya Mahadeva? Fig.

Even now a village near the temple

called Charupallam, the “Village of the Incline”.

The Taj Mahal

on the left.

Where

the emperor’s residence? The city appears to be very crowded, but did you notice the many large gardens as well? Can you find the main street and the jami masjid? Yamuna River Yamuna River Taj Mahal 2021-22 71 develop this architectural form as a means to control the access that nobles had to the river.

This style of architecture

from north-east Iran (Khurasan) and was used in Fatehpur Sikri.

How

the “trabeate” principle of architecture different from the “arcuate”? 2.

What

a shikhara? 3.

What

pietra-dura? 4.

If there

Paradise on Earth, it is here, it is here, it is here.

Find out whether there

a statue of or a memorial to a great person in your village or town.

NCERT Thought Questions

• more about Akbar’s other contemporaries – the ruler of England, Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603); the Safavid ruler of Iran,
• whether there is a statue of or a memorial to a great person in your village or town. Why was it
• more about present-day taxes on markets: who collects these, how are they collected and what

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