Medieval and Modern Bihar — Sher Shah, Buxar and the 1912 Separation

From Nalanda's Fall to a Mughal Subah

• ›Bakhtiyar Khalji took Bihar around 1200–1206, destroying Nalanda and Vikramshila. The end of the monastic age is also the beginning of medieval Bihar.
• ›Under Akbar, Bihar became a subah — a Mughal province — with its capital at Patna
• ›Raja Man Singh, Akbar's general and governor in the east, built at Rohtasgarh
• ›Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, was born at Patna in 1666 — the site is Takht Sri Harmandir Ji, Patna Sahib, one of the five Takhts of Sikhism

These four facts are the whole of the pre-Sur and post-Sur medieval frame that Prelims asks about. The centre of gravity in between is one man, and he is the next card.

1. Sher Shah Suri defeated Humayun at Chausa in 1539. Chausa lies in which present-day district of Bihar?

2. The silver coin Rupiya, ancestor of the modern rupee, was introduced by:

3. At the Battle of Buxar in 1764, the British defeated the combined forces of:

4. By the Treaty of Allahabad of 1765, the East India Company obtained the Diwani of:

5. The leader of the 1857 revolt in Bihar, who took the field at nearly eighty years of age, was:

6. Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, was born in 1666 at:

7. Bihar was separated from the Bengal Presidency as a distinct province in:

8. Under Sher Shah Suri's revenue system, the document given to the cultivator stating his holding and dues was the: