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What changes took place in varna-based society?

What are the difficulties historians face in using manuscripts?

In what ways has the meaning of the term “Hindustan” changed over the centuries?

What were the policies adopted by Asaf Jah to strengthen his position?

Do you think merchants and bankers today have the kind of influence they had in the eighteenth century?

How were the Sikhs organised in the eighteenth century?

How was the administration of the Ahom state organised?

How do historians divide the past into periods? Do they face any problems in doing so?

Were the Banjaras important for the economy?

How did the Rashtrakutas become powerful?

What kinds of exchanges took place between nomadic pastoralists and settled agriculturists?

Why do you think ordinary people preserved the memory of Mirabai?

Fill in the blanks:

(a) The new castes emerging within varnas were called ____________.
(b) _____________ were historical works written by the Ahoms.

(c) The ____________ mentions that Garha Katanga had 70,000 villages.
(d) As tribal states became bigger and stronger, they gave land grants to _________ and ________.

How were the debates with religious scholars important in the formation of Akbar’s ideas on governance?

How did the Mughal court suggest that everyone – the rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak – received justice equally from the emperor?

Look at Figure 4. How could that building be constructed faster today?

For either the Virashaivas or the sants of Maharashtra, discuss their attitude towards caste.

What were the policies adopted by Asaf Jah to strengthen his position?

List some of the technological changes associated with this period.

Fill in the blanks:
(a) The capital of Mirza Hakim, Akbar’s half-brother, was ____________.
(b) The five Deccan Sultanates were Berar, Khandesh, Ahmadnagar, ____________ and _________________.
(c) If zat determined a mansabdar’s rank and salary, sawar indicated his ____________ .
(d) Abul Fazl, Akbar’s friend and counsellor, helped him frame the idea of ____________ so that he could govern a society composed of many religions, cultures and castes.