Question: What dynasty captured most of central India?
Answer: Khilji dynasty

Question: What language was created during the Delhi Sultanate? 
Answer: Urdu

Question: Who was the only female sultana to be enthroned in a Indo-Islamic empire?
Answer: Razia Sultana

Question: By what is the fusion of Islamic and Indian cultures called?
Answer: Indo-Muslim

Question: What Turko-Mongol attacked and defeated the Sultan of Tughlaq dynasty?
Answer: Timur

Question: On what date did Timur beat the Delhi Sultan?
Answer: 17 December 1398

Question: In what shape did Timur leave the city of Delhi?
Answer: in ruins

Question: How many prisoners of war were executed in the sack of Delhi?
Answer: 100,000

Question: What were exempted from death by Timur when ordering Delhi sacked?
Answer: sayyids

Question: In what year was Sangama Dynasty formed?
Answer: 1336

Question: At what location are the best known monuments in the south of India?
Answer: Hampi

Question: What mathematician founded the Kerala school of astronomy? 
Answer: Madhava of Sangamagrama

Question: When was the Kerala school established?
Answer: 14th century

Question: What did the Vijayanagara Empire promote to unify Indian culture?
Answer: Hinduism

Question: From the mid 13th century, what dominated politics in northern India?
Answer: Delhi Sultanate

Question: What empire dominated in the south of India in the 13th century?
Answer: Vijayanagar Empire

Question: What group dominated in western and central India at the start of the 13th century?
Answer: Rajputs

Question: Gajapati Kingdom was powerful in the east for how many centuries?
Answer: six centuries

Question: What empire beat the last Bahmani Sultanate?
Answer: Vijayanagara Empire

Question: What kingdom came to power in Assam?
Answer: Ahom Kingdom

Question: What was the span of time fro the Ahom Kingdom?
Answer: 1228–1826

Question: What event caused the end of Ahom rule in Assam?
Answer: British rule

Question: With what religion did the Ahom merge?
Answer: Hindu

Question: What group repeatedly tried and failed to conquer the Ahom?
Answer: Muslim rulers of Delhi

Question: What empire did Babur found in northern India?
Answer: Mughal Empire

Question: Who defeated Babur's son in 1540?
Answer: Sher Shah Suri

Question: Of what nationality was Sher Shah Suri?
Answer: Afghan

Question: At what place did Akbar's army defeat Hemu in 1556?
Answer: Second Battle of Panipat

Question: By what route did Babur enter India?
Answer: Khyber Pass

Question: By what date did the Mughal dynasty rule most of India?
Answer: 1600

Question: What famous monument did Shah Jahan build at Agra?
Answer: Taj Mahal

Question: What reached it height during the reign of Shah Jehan?
Answer: Mughal architecture

Question: What actions caused the decline of the Mughal Empire?
Answer: Maratha military resurgence

Question: During whose reign did the Mughal Empire reach its greatest expanse?
Answer: Aurangzeb

Question: What groups invaded and damaged the Mughals?
Answer: Marathas and Afghans

Question: Who attacked and plundered Delhi in 1737?
Answer: Maratha general Bajirao

Question: Who was the final Commander-in-chief of the Mughal army?
Answer: Nizam-ul-mulk

Question: What was the site of the final battle for the Mughals?
Answer: Bhopal

Question: What was the Indian Rebellion of 1857 also called?
Answer: 1857 War of Independence

Question: What was the richest of all the dynasties?
Answer: The Mughals

Question: What policy made the Mughals a successful dynasty? 
Answer: integration with Indian culture

Question: Which Mughal ruler tried to form a good relationship with non-Muslims?
Answer: emperor Akbar

Question: Which Mughal ruler tried to establish complete dominance over the Hindu populace?
Answer: Aurangazeb

Question: With what styles did Mughal Rulers merge their Tuko-Persian culture?
Answer: ancient Indian

Question: The rise of what dynasty followed the era of the Mughals?
Answer: Maratha suzerainty

Question: What founding was of importance in the  decline of the Mughals?
Answer: Maratha confederacy

Question: Who consolidated the Maratha kingdom?
Answer: Chatrapati Shivaji

Question: What did J.N. Sarkar say of Shivaji's nation building?
Answer: great constructive genius

Question: Who made the Marathas a strong power?
Answer: Peshwa Bajirao I

Question: By when had the Maratha kingdom become an empire?
Answer: early 18th century

Question: Who ruled the Maratha Empire?
Answer: Peshwas

Question: What were Peshwas?
Answer: prime ministers

Question: By what year had the Maratha Empire covered most of the subcontinent?
Answer: 1760

Question: In the end, what empire defeated the Maratha Empire?
Answer: British

Question: Followers what religion were the rulers of the Punjabi Kingdom?
Answer: Sikh religion

Question: What was the time span of the Punjabi Kingdom?
Answer: 1799 to 1849

Question: Who was the leader of the Punjabis? 
Answer: Maharaja Ranjit Singh

Question: On what was the disciplined force Singh relied? 
Answer: Sikh army

Question: Who finally was able to conquer the Sikh Empire?
Answer: British

Question: To what Kingdom did many small kingdoms pay tribute?
Answer: Marathas

Question: What kingdom was founded in Mysore in 1400 CE?
Answer: Wodeyar

Question: What groups was Mysore fighting in the later half of the 18th century?
Answer: British and Marathas

Question: What country promised aid to Mysore to fight the British?
Answer: the French

Question: Who took over rule of Mysore in the 18th century?
Answer: Hyder Ali

Question: In what country was the trading base for the Dutch?
Answer: Ceylon

Question: Where did the British initially establish a trading base?
Answer: port of Surat

Question: What was the third European country to establish trading with India?
Answer: French

Question: What actions by the Indian kingdoms gave the European traders the opportunity to acquire lands and influence?
Answer: internal conflicts

Question: To whom did the foreigners lose most of their acquired lands?
Answer: British

Question: What ruler opposed the British use of permits and ended up at war?
Answer: Nawab of Bengal Siraj Ud Daulah

Question: What British company was heavily involved in the defeat of the Nawab's forces?
Answer: East India Company

Question: Who did the East India Company appoint as Governor of Bengal?
Answer: Robert Clive

Question: What type of land taxation system did the East India Company instigate in Bengal?
Answer: feudal

Question: How did the East India Company handle trade in Bengal?
Answer: monopolized

Question: What whole region did the East India company get control over after the Carnatic Wars?
Answer: Carnatic

Question: During what time were the Anglo-Mysore Wars?
Answer: 1766–1799

Question: When were the Anglo-Maratha Wars fought?
Answer: 1772–1818

Question: To what dynasty was Kashmir sold in 1849?
Answer: Dogra Dynasty of Jammu

Question: After the sale of Kashmir, what did the area become?
Answer: princely state

Question: What did the soldiers rebel against in the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
Answer: Company's rule

Question: What happened to the rebels of the Rebellion?
Answer: brutally suppressed

Question: What force took control of the company and the situation?
Answer: British government

Question: What did the British government intend to keep in regards to India?
Answer: full control

Question: What did the British government remove that had caused the Rebellion?
Answer: grievances

Question: To what entity was all the power of the East India Company transferred?
Answer: British Crown

Question: How did Britain govern the vast area of India?
Answer: provinces

Question: Over what did Britain have direct control?
Answer: Company's lands

Question: What kind of influence did the British Crown have over the rest of India that was not under Company rule?
Answer: indirect influence

Question: How many princely states were there in India in 1947?
Answer: 565