SSC CGL 2023 PYQ — Question 130

SSC CGL Tier II - 2 March 2023 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q130

Who composed Tabaqat-i-Nasiri in the Delhi Sultanate period?

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is option 3 i.e. Minhaj-us-Siraj

  • Minhaj-us-Siraj composed Tabaqat-i-Nasiri in the Delhi Sultanate period for Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah.

  • He was a 13th-century Persian historian.

  • In 1227, he immigrated to Ucch and, thereafter, to Delhi.

  • The principal historian of the Mamluk Sultanate of Delhi in northern India, he wrote of the Ghurid dynasty as well.