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Alberuni was the contemporary of1. Mahmud Ghajnavi2. Mohammed Ghori3. Allauddin Khalji4. Mohammad Bin Tughlaq

Answer» Correct Answer - Option 1 : Mahmud Ghajnavi

The correct answer is Mahmud Ghajnavi.

  • Alberuni was the contemporary of Mahmud Ghajnavi.
  • He came in contact with Mahmud when he had invaded Khiva and he was presented before him as a prisoner.
  • In his book Tahqiq-i-Hind in which he portrays the social, political, religious, and economic condition of the then India

  • Abu Rihan Mohammad Bin Ahmad is popularly known as Alberuni who was born in 973 AD in the Khiza region and one of the Jewel of Mahmud’s Courts.
  • He was a renowned philosopher, a mathematician, and a historian.
  • According to the Alberuni, people of the Indian sub-continent were excellent philosophers, good mathematicians, and astronomers.
  • He criticized the hypocrisy of Brahmin Scholars because despite explaining the scientific values of ancient text, they preferred to mislead the masses and to keep them steeped in ignorance and superstitious.

  • Mohammed Ghori
    • Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad Ghori, also known as Muhammad of Ghor, was the Sultan of the Ghurid Empire along with his brother Ghiyath ad-Din Muhammad from 1173 to 1202 and as the sole ruler from 1202 to 1206.
    • Full name: Shihab ad-Din 
    • Born: 1149, Ghor, Afghanistan
    • Muhammad Ghori invaded India in 1175 A.D.
    • The brave Rajput chiefs of northern India headed by Prithvi Raj Chauhan defeated him in the First Battle of Terrain in 1191 A.D. 
  • Allauddin Khalji​
    • Allauddin Khalji​ followed the Divine Right Theory of Kingship.
    • He introduced four ordinances to prevent repeated revolts.
    • He impounded pious grants and free grants of lands
    • He restructured the spy system.
    • He banned social parties and wine.
    • He introduced a permanent standing army.
    • He started the system of branding of horses and a descriptive roster of individual soldiers to inhibit corruption.
    • He fixed the prices of necessary commodities that were below the normal market rates.
  • Mohammad Bin Tughlaq
    • In 1325 A.D. Junakhan, the crown prince sworn the title Muhammad-bin-Tughluq.
    • Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq stood for the administrative and political unity of India.
    • In 1327 A.D., he captured Warangal.


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