Medieval History Notes

15 chapters · 123 sections · 308 cards

Medieval History Notes & Flashcards for BPSC Prelims: 15 chapters · 123 sections · 308 cards. These notes and flashcards need JavaScript; please enable it to read them.

Arab conquest of Sindh
- Timeline
- Who sent the expedition, and why
- Sindh on the eve of the conquest
- The campaign
- Administration after the conquest
- A “triumph without results”
- Cultural contact
- Source
Mahmud of Ghazni
- Timeline
- Rise of the Ghaznavids
- Mahmud: titles and aims
- Why Mahmud succeeded
- Impact
- Sources and writers
- Source check
Muhammad Ghori
- Timeline
- The Ghurids
- Early campaigns
- The battles of Tarain
- After Tarain
- Bakhtiyar Khalji in Bihar and Bengal
- Sources
- The Prithviraj Raso legend
- Source check
Mamluk (Slave) dynasty
- Timeline
- Names for the dynasty
- Qutbuddin Aibak (1206–10)
- Iltutmish (1211–36)
- Raziya Sultan (1236–40)
- The years of the Forty (1240–66)
- Balban (1266–87)
- End of the dynasty
- Memory hook
- Source check
Khalji dynasty
- Timeline
- Character of the dynasty
- Jalaluddin Khalji (1290–96)
- Alauddin Khalji (1296–1316): the ruler
- Market reforms and price control
- Land revenue and the army
- Defending against the Mongols
- Campaigns in the north
- Malik Kafur and the south (1307–12)
- Buildings
- Amir Khusrau (1253–1325)
- Mubarak Khalji (1316–20)
- Source check
Tughlaq dynasty
- Timeline
- Character of the dynasty
- Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq (1320–25)
- Muhammad bin Tughlaq (1325–51)
- Firoz Shah Tughlaq (1351–88)
- The last Tughlaqs
- Source check
Sayyid dynasty
- Timeline
- Character of the dynasty
- The rulers
- Architecture
Lodi dynasty
- Timeline
- An Afghan dynasty
- Bahlul Lodi (1451–89)
- Sikandar Lodi (1489–1517)
- Ibrahim Lodi (1517–26)
Bahmani kingdom
- Timeline
- Alauddin Bahman Shah (1347–58)
- Muhammad Shah I (1358–75)
- Firoz Shah Bahmani (1397–1422)
- Ahmad Shah Wali (1422–36)
- Muhammad Shah III (1463–82) and Mahmud Gawan
- Break-up into the Deccan Sultanates
- Battle of Talikota (1565)
- Memory hook
- Source check
Vijayanagara empire
- Timeline
- Foundation
- Four dynasties
- Sangama highlights
- Saluva dynasty (1485–1505)
- Krishnadevaraya (1509–29)
- Administration
- Decline
- Foreign visitors
- Memory hook
- Source check
Karnata dynasty
- Timeline
- Background
- Nanyadeva (1097–1147)
- Gangadeva and the middle rulers
- Harisimhadeva (1297–1324)
Oinwar dynasty
- Timeline
- Origins
- The rulers
- Golden age of Maithili culture
- What came next
Mughal empire
- Timeline
- Babur (1526–30)
- Humayun (1530–40, 1555–56)
- Akbar (1556–1605): conquests
- Akbar: religious policy
- Akbar: administration
- Akbar: scholars and culture
- Jahangir (1605–27)
- Shah Jahan (1628–58)
- Aurangzeb (1658–1707)
- Later Mughals
- Who wrote what
- European visitors
- Memory hook
- Source check
Sur dynasty
- Timeline
- Sher Shah Suri (1540–45)
- Administration
- Roads and sarais
- Buildings
- Death and successors
- Source check
Marathas
- Timeline
- Shivaji (1627–80)
- After Shivaji
- The Peshwas
- Administration: the Ashta Pradhan
- Chauth and sardeshmukhi
- Source check