The Decline of the Mughal empire

A ................... outsider was preferable to the non-Muslim Marathas

• Muslim

• Christian

• male

• None of above

The effective end of Mughal rule put Muslims at a .............................

• advantage

• disadvantage

• edge

• asset

Afghans win the battle of ....................

• Panipat

• Khanwa

• Chausa

• Haldighati

The Afghan army was made up of ......... cavalry

• 29,000

• 41800

• 39,000

.......................Marathas defeated a Mughal army outside Delhi and in the following year overran the strategically important town of Malwa

• 1733

• 1732

• 1737

• 1745

Maratha power expanded across central.....................

• Bengal

• India

• Punjab

• Afghanistan

Mughal rule had depended on local officials carrying out the instructions of the government in.................

• Hyderabad

• Bombay

• Delhi

• Calcutta

Mughal rule had relied on local ................. loyally obeying the emperor

• servants

• princes

• kings

• people

Mughal provincial governors declared...........................

• Captivity

• inadequacy

• disadvantage

• enslavement

The most serious challenge to Mughal authority came from the ............................

• Marathas

• The Ahoms

• Persian empire

• None of above