History of India - 3

Sher Shah Suri, the founder of the Sur Empire in North India, was born with the name Farid. The other options - Khurram, Salim, and Murad - were names associated with Mughal emperors (Khurram was Shah Jahan's birth name, Salim was Jahangir's, and Murad was a Mughal prince).

The Second Battle of Tarain (1192 AD) between Prithviraj Chauhan and Muhammad Ghori resulted in a victory for Ghori, establishing the foundation of Muslim rule in India.

Alauddin Khilji was the first Muslim ruler to expand his empire across almost the entire Indian subcontinent.

Timur invaded India in 1398 AD during the reign of Sultan Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughlaq, the last ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty.

Vikramshila University was founded by the Pala king Dharmapala in the 8th or 9th century.

The Battle of Talikota (1565) was fought between the combined forces of the Deccan Sultanates and the Vijayanagara Empire, led by Rama Raya.

Daulat Khan Lodhi, the governor of Punjab, invited Babur to invade India to help him overthrow Ibrahim Lodhi.

Jalaluddin Firuz Khilji founded the Khilji dynasty in 1290 AD after overthrowing the last Mamluk ruler.

Bahlol Lodhi founded the Lodhi dynasty in 1451 AD after the decline of the Sayyid dynasty.

The ancient Buddhist university of Nalanda was located in the present-day state of Bihar.

Akbar was crowned (coronated) at Kalanaur in Punjab in 1556 AD following the sudden death of his father, Humayun.

Sultan Sikandar Lodhi moved his capital from Delhi to Agra in the year 1506. 

Ghiyas ud din Balban was a prominent slave and general of Sultan Iltutmish before eventually becoming the Sultan himself.

Bairam Khan served as the regent and guardian for the young Akbar after Humayun's death, playing a crucial role in the Second Battle of Panipat.

Banda Bahadur was a Sikh military commander who was captured and executed in 1716 by the Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar. This event marked a significant point in the conflict between the Mughal Empire and the Sikh forces.

Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh Guru, founded the city of Amritsar in 1574. He established the city on land granted by the Mughal Emperor Akbar.

Akbar's tomb is located in Sikandra, which is a suburb of Agra. It was built by his son Jahangir.

Muhammad Bin Tughlaq is historically remembered for his ambitious but often failed administrative experiments, such as the transfer of the capital and the introduction of token currency. Therefore, describing him as a man of practical wisdom is considered inaccurate by historians.

The mature phase of the Indus Valley Civilization is generally dated by archaeologists to approximately 2600 BC to 1900 BC, but 3000 BC to 1500 BC is the commonly accepted broad range in many textbooks.

The early Vedic civilization is closely associated with the Saraswati river, which is frequently mentioned in the Rigveda as a sacred and mighty river.

Lothal, Kalibangan, and Ropar are well-known sites of the Indus Valley Civilization. Babylon was a contemporary civilization in Mesopotamia, not a site within the Indus Valley.

Krishnadeva Raya is widely considered the greatest ruler of the Vijayanagar Empire, known for his military conquests and patronage of art and literature.

The Second Battle of Panipat took place in 1556 between the forces of the Mughal Emperor Akbar and the Hindu king Hemu.

The Vijayanagara Empire was founded in 1336 by two brothers, Harihara and Bukka, under the guidance of the sage Vidyaranya.