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Question
Answer the following question in one or two words/ sentences :
Give any one example to show that Mahmud was a patron of learning.
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Solution
He was a patron of art and learning and enjoyed the company of learned scholars and poets. The Persian poet Firdausi, an author of the great epic Shahnama, and the great Persian historian and mathematician Al Beruni were among the eminent scholars patronized by Mahmud.
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| 2. AD 1192 | (b) Muhammad Ghori defeated Prithviraj Chauhan at Tarain |
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Qutbuddin Aibak took control of Muhammad Ghori’s ________ possessions and laid the foundation of the __________.
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| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Mahmud of Ghazni | (a) general of Ghori |
| 2. First Battle of Tarain | (b) Prithviraj was defeated by Muhammad Ghori |
| 3. Second Battle of Tarain | (c) Prithviraj defeated Muhammad Ghori |
| 4. Qutbuddin Aibak | (d) patron of art and learning |
| 5. Muhammad bin Bakhtiar Khalji | (e) viceroy of Ghori |
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