[B] Qutb-uddin Aibak
Notes: Qutbuddin Aibak, who was a general at Muhammad Ghori’s Delhi Sultanate, was succeeded by Aram Shah, and then by his former slave Iltutmish. He began the construction of Qutb Minar in Delhi. He died falling from his horse while playing Polo or Chaugan. He reigned till his death in 1210.

[D] Bajirao
Notes: Baji Rao I is acknowledged as the most influential of the nine Peshwas. He conquered Central India (Malwa) and Rajputana and extended his dominions into Gujarat in the northwest and Deccan in the south. He raided Mughal Delhi in 1738.

[D] Mohammad-Bin-Tughlaq
Notes: Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq carried out several monetary experiments and has been called a ‘Prince of Moneyers’. In 1329-30, he introduced token currency under which copper and brass coins were to have the same value as silver coins. The idea failed as he had done nothing to curb its private and unauthorized issue and thus every house became a mint.

[B] Razmnama
Notes: The Mughal Emperor Akbar was the first king to have the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, translated into Persian as ‘Razmnama’. In 1574 Akbar started a Maktab Khana or a house of translation works in Fatehpur Sikri.

[A] Guru Angad
Notes: According to Sikh tradition, Gurmukhi (literally, “from the mouth of the Guru”) was invented in the mid-16th century by Angad, the second Sikh Guru (head of the Sikh religion), in order to correct certain inadequacies in the Lahnda script so that sacred literature might be accurately recorded.