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A. Tick (3) the right option :

1. Murshid Quli Khan was the governor of ______________ .
(a) Bengal (b) Mysore (c) Avadh
2. Sawai Raja Jai Singh founded the city of ______________ .
(a) Mathura (b) Banaras (c) Jaipur
3. The Kohinoor and the Peacock Throne were taken away by ______________ .

(a) Nadir Shah (b) Ahmad Shah Abdali (c) Timur
4. The Marathas encouraged ______________ .
(a) agriculture (b) trade (c) both of these
5. ______________ united the 12 misls in the Punjab.
(a) Guru Gobind Singh (b) Banda Bahadur (c) Maharaja Ranjit Singh

6. ____________ of Ambar erected observatories at Jaipur, Delhi and Ujjain.
(a) Badan Singh (b) Sawai Raja Jai Singh (c) Suraj Mal
7. Tipu Sultan was died at ______________ in ______________ .
(a) Punjab, 1718 (b) Awadh, 1722 (c) Seringapatnam, 1799
8. The Marathas charged chauth from ______________ .

(a) people inside the territories (b) people outside the territories
(c) both of them
B. Match the following :

1. Jaziya u u One-tenth of land revenue charged by the Marathas from
their rulers on the promise of assistance.

2. Later Mughals u u A tax imposed on non-Muslims going on pilgrimage.
3. Female infanticide u u The Mughal rulers after Aurangzeb.
4. Misl u u Killing of girl-child.
5. Guerilla tactics u u A confederacy or province under the Sikhs.

6. Sardeshmukhi u u The soldiers who do not fight a direct battle, but sneak attack.
C. Name any two :
1. regional political formations in the eighteenth century : (a) ______________ (b) ______________
2. important Jat rulers : (a) ______________ (b) ______________
3. Maratha rulers : (a) ______________ (b) ______________
4. ministerial posts under the Marathas : (a) ______________ (b) ______________

5. Sikh states : (a) ______________ (b) ______________
6. successors of Murshid Quli Khan : (a) ______________ (b) ______________

D. Write which regional formations fought the following battles :
1. Third Battle of Panipat : ________________________________________________________
2. First Anglo-Mysore War : ________________________________________________________

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