SSC CGL Medieval History Questions (Medieval India GK MCQ, Rajputs to Marathas) – Free Chapter Test 2026 in Hindi & English

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Tap below to see all the tests. They follow the order of the syllabus — Test 1 starts with the Rajputs and the struggle for Kannauj, Test 14 ends with the later Mughals and the Marathas — so you can take them one after another or jump to the period you are revising. Choose English or हिंदी on any test.

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Set at real SSC CGL and CHSL level. Each test mixes the four ways SSC asks history — direct one-line questions, statement questions, match the following and assertion–reason — and no fact is asked twice across the 350 questions.

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Medieval Indian History is a fact chapter. SSC does not ask you to explain why the Delhi Sultanate declined; it asks who introduced the silver tanka, who wrote the Ain-i-Akbari, or where the Battle of Talikota was fought. The options are always four names from the same table — four Sultans, four Mughal emperors, four Bhakti saints — so a half-remembered fact is exactly what the paper is built to catch.

Marks are lost in three places. The first is look-alike names: Ghiyasuddin Balban and Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, Muhammad bin Tughlaq and Muhammad Ghori, Bahadur Shah I and Bahadur Shah Zafar. The second is monument–builder pairs: Alai Darwaza and Alauddin Khalji, Buland Darwaza and Akbar, Charminar and Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah. The third is book–author pairs: Tarikh-i-Firozshahi and Barani, Humayun-nama and Gulbadan Begum, Padmavat and Malik Muhammad Jayasi. The tests here are built around exactly these three.

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How Many Medieval History Questions Are Asked in SSC CGL?

History as a whole — ancient, medieval and modern — gives three to four of the 25 General Awareness questions in most SSC CGL Tier I shifts, and Medieval India is usually one or two of them. CHSL, MTS and the Tier II General Awareness paper follow the same pattern. The topics below are the ones SSC returns to most often, roughly in order.

Topic	How often	What is usually asked
Mughal Empire	Very frequent	Battles and years, rulers' titles, monuments, mansabdari, court historians
Delhi Sultanate	Very frequent	Dynasty founders, reforms, coins, Alauddin's markets, Muhammad bin Tughlaq's experiments
Bhakti, Sufi and Sikh Gurus	Frequent	Saints and their philosophy or texts, Sufi orders, the ten Gurus
Vijayanagara and Bahmani	Frequent	Founders, Krishnadeva Raya, Talikota, foreign travellers, Gol Gumbaz
Cholas and other southern kingdoms	Regular	Rajaraja and Rajendra, Brihadeeshvara temple, village assemblies, Hoysala temples
Rajputs, regional kingdoms and Marathas	Regular	Clans and capitals, Rana Kumbha and Sanga, Ahoms, Shivaji's Ashtapradhan

Medieval India also overlaps with Art & Culture — Sultanate and Mughal monuments, Rajput and Mughal painting and the Bhakti poets are asked under both headings.

What Each Medieval History Test Covers

The 350 questions run through the syllabus in order, 25 to a test. Where a period ends partway through a test, the next one begins in the same test.

Test	Topics
Test 1	Rajput origins and clans; Chauhans, Chandellas, Paramaras, Solankis, Tomaras and Gahadavalas; the Tripartite Struggle for Kannauj and the Palas
Test 2	Pratiharas and Rashtrakutas; Kashmir's Hindu dynasties, Rajput forts and painting schools, the Senas and the Eastern Gangas
Test 3	The Cholas — rulers, temples, administration, village assemblies; Chalukyas of Kalyani and Vengi, Hoysalas, Kakatiyas and Yadavas
Test 4	Southern literature; the Arab conquest of Sind, Mahmud of Ghazni, Muhammad Ghori and the Slave dynasty up to Balban
Test 5	Balban's military reforms; the Khiljis — Alauddin's campaigns and market reforms; the Tughlaqs up to Firoz Shah
Test 6	Firoz Shah Tughlaq, the Sayyids and the Lodis; Sultanate administration, economy, society and early monuments
Test 7	Sultanate architecture, music and literature, Amir Khusrau; Vijayanagara — rulers, travellers, Talikota, administration
Test 8	Vijayanagara economy, society and architecture; the Bahmani kingdom, Mahmud Gawan and the Deccan Sultanates
Test 9	Bijapur and Golconda monuments; regional kingdoms — Kashmir, Jaunpur, Bengal, the Ahoms, Odisha, Malwa, Gujarat and Mewar
Test 10	Sufi orders and saints; Bhakti saints from Shankaracharya and Ramanuja to Kabir, Chaitanya, Surdas and Tulsidas; the first Sikh Gurus
Test 11	The later Sikh Gurus and the Khalsa; Babur, Humayun, Sher Shah Suri and Akbar's early conquests
Test 12	Akbar's monuments, administration, mansabdari, land revenue, religious policy and Navratnas; Jahangir's early reign
Test 13	Jahangir, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb; Mughal painting, architecture, economy and trade
Test 14	The later Mughals and Nadir Shah's invasion; Shivaji, his administration, his successors and the Peshwas

The three traps that cost the most marks

Same name, different ruler. There are two Ghiyasuddins (Balban and Tughlaq), two Bahadur Shahs (I and Zafar) and two Muhammad Shahs among the later Mughals and the Bahmanis. Read the dynasty in the question before the name.
The extreme answer in a statement question. “First”, “only”, “last” and “largest” are where SSC hides the wrong statement — the first true dome, the last Lodi Sultan, the only woman Sultan of Delhi. Check those words first.
Mixing up the battles. Tarain I and II, Panipat I, II and III, Khanwa, Haldighati and Talikota each have their own year and two sides — learn them as one table, not as separate facts.

Solved Examples — SSC CGL Medieval History

Q1. Who began the construction of the Qutub Minar in Delhi?
(a) Iltutmish
(b) Qutbuddin Aibak
(c) Alauddin Khalji
(d) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

Qutbuddin Aibak laid the foundation and built the first storey around 1199. His successor Iltutmish added three more storeys, and Firoz Shah Tughlaq repaired the top after lightning damage and raised a fifth. Alauddin Khalji planned the much larger Alai Minar, which was never finished. Answer: (b)

Q2. Consider the following statements about the Vijayanagara Empire:
1. It was founded in 1336 by Harihara and Bukka.
2. Its capital Hampi stood on the bank of the Tungabhadra.
3. Krishnadeva Raya wrote the Amuktamalyada in Telugu.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3

All three are correct. Harihara and Bukka of the Sangama family founded the empire in 1336, Hampi on the Tungabhadra in Karnataka was its capital, and Krishnadeva Raya of the Tuluva dynasty wrote the Amuktamalyada, a Telugu poem on the life of the poet-saint Andal. Answer: (d)

Q3. Read the Assertion (A) and Reason (R) carefully.
Assertion (A): Alauddin Khalji fixed the prices of grain, cloth and horses in Delhi.
Reason (R): He wanted to maintain a large standing army on modest salaries.
(a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true, but R is false
(d) A is false, but R is true

Alauddin kept a large permanent army to hold off the Mongols, and low fixed prices let his soldiers live on their pay. His market officers, the Shahna-i-Mandi and the Diwan-i-Riyasat, enforced the rates. Answer: (a)

Q4. ‘आइन-ए-अकबरी’ के लेखक कौन थे?
(a) अबुल फ़ज़ल
(b) अब्दुल क़ादिर बदायूँनी
(c) फ़ैज़ी
(d) निज़ामुद्दीन अहमद

आइन-ए-अकबरी अबुल फ़ज़ल ने लिखी; यह उनके अकबरनामा का तीसरा भाग है और अकबर के प्रशासन, राजस्व और समाज का विवरण देती है। बदायूँनी ने मुंतख़ब-उत-तवारीख़ और निज़ामुद्दीन अहमद ने तबक़ात-ए-अकबरी लिखी; फ़ैज़ी अबुल फ़ज़ल के बड़े भाई और दरबारी कवि थे। उत्तर: (a)

How the Medieval History Tests Work

25 questions per test, with a full question palette — answered, skipped, marked for review, not visited.
14 tests, 350 questions, in syllabus order — from the Rajputs and the Cholas to the later Mughals and the Marathas, with no fact repeated across the chapter.
All four SSC question types — direct questions, statement questions, match the following and assertion–reason.
Optional 15-minute timer — with the clock for exam speed, without it while you are still learning the facts.
Marking: +2 correct, −0.5 wrong, 0 unattempted — the same scheme as the real paper.
6–7 point solutions open after you submit — the answer, the facts around it (dates, rulers, battles, monuments, books) and what each wrong option actually refers to, so one question revises a whole topic.
English and Hindi — every test is available in both; choose the language when you start.
Free with a TrickySSC account — sign in once with Google or your mobile number, and every test is open to you.

How to Prepare Medieval History for SSC CGL

Learn it dynasty by dynasty. Founder – capital – greatest ruler – last ruler for each Sultanate dynasty, each Mughal emperor and each southern kingdom. Most SSC questions come straight out of such tables.
Keep a battle table. Tarain 1191 and 1192, Panipat 1526, 1556 and 1761, Khanwa 1527, Haldighati 1576, Talikota 1565 — with the two sides and the winner for each.
Pair every monument with its builder and every book with its author. Alai Darwaza – Alauddin, Gol Gumbaz – Muhammad Adil Shah, Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri – Jahangir, Ramcharitmanas – Tulsidas. These pairs are among the most repeated questions.
Read the solutions, not just the answer. Each solution here carries six or seven related facts — reading them is how 350 questions cover the whole chapter.
Revise in short rounds. One test a day keeps the earlier dynasties fresh while you move ahead, and then check yourself on a previous year paper.

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SSC CGL Medieval History — Frequently Asked Questions

How many Medieval History questions are asked in SSC CGL?

History as a whole gives three to four of the 25 General Awareness questions in most SSC CGL Tier I shifts, and Medieval India is usually one or two of them. CHSL, MTS and the Tier II General Awareness paper follow the same pattern.

Which Medieval India topics are most important for SSC?

The Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire come up most often, followed by the Bhakti and Sufi movements with the Sikh Gurus, Vijayanagara, the Cholas, the Marathas under Shivaji, and Sultanate and Mughal architecture.

How many tests and questions are in this chapter?

Fourteen tests of 25 questions each, 350 questions in all. They run in syllabus order, from the Rajputs and the Tripartite Struggle in Test 1 to the later Mughals and the Marathas in Test 14, and no fact is asked twice.

Are the Medieval History tests available in Hindi?

Yes. Every test is available in both English and Hindi with the same questions and the same answer key, and you choose the language when you start the test.

What kind of questions are in the tests?

All four kinds SSC uses for history: direct one-line questions, statement questions, match the following and assertion-reason. Most are direct questions, as in the real paper.

What do the solutions contain?

Six to seven short points for every question: the answer, the related facts around it such as dates, rulers, battles, monuments and books, and what each wrong option actually refers to.

Is there a timer, and what is the marking scheme?

An optional 15-minute timer per test, and the real exam marking of +2 for a correct answer, −0.5 for a wrong one and 0 for an unattempted question.

Are the Medieval History tests free?

Yes, every test is free. You need a free TrickySSC account to start one — sign in once with Google or your mobile number and every test is open to you.

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