Medieval and Modern Indian History

Banda Bahadur was a Sikh military commander who fought against the Mughal Empire. The Battle of Aminabad is not a recognized historical engagement associated with his military campaigns in 1710.

The Qutub Shahi dynasty ruled Golconda, not Ahmednagar (which was ruled by the Nizam Shahi). The Nizam Shahi dynasty ruled Ahmednagar, not Golconda. Thus, 4 and 5 are incorrectly matched.

The Battle of Talikota in 1565 was a decisive conflict that led to the collapse of the Vijayanagara Empire against the combined forces of the Deccan Sultanates.

The downfall of the Bahamani Kingdom was due to a combination of constant warfare with Vijayanagara, the resulting financial exhaustion, and the rise of weak, incompetent rulers who could not maintain central authority.

Ghiyas ud din Balban was the ninth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty of Delhi. He was the ruler of a vast empire that stretched from Bengal (Gauda) in the east to Ghazni (Gajjana) in Afghanistan in the west and included all of south India (Dravida). This was mentioned in a Sanskrit prashasti which praised him for his achievements.

After the death of Rajadhiraj Chola, the Chola kingdom began to decay. Gradually, the Pandyas, the Cheras and the Hoysalas became independent and ultimately, the Chola kingdom vanished altogether when Malik Kafur, a general of Alauddin Khilji, invaded the South. 

Hasan Nizami wrote Tajul Masir which was protanized by Qutubuddin Aibak and Itutmish of the Slave dynasty. This is a historical narrative and many scholars believe that this is the first work that mentions about the beginning of rule of Slave dynasty in the Political history of India. It is dated to the period between 1217 AD-1229 AD. 

Muhammad bin Tughlaq transferred his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad primarily because of two reasons:

• Daulatabad was centrally located and equidistant from Delhi and other important places.
• Because Delhi was within the reach of the Mongols, Daulatabad appeared to be at a safe distance from the possible Mongol attacks in the future.

Alauddin Khilji maintained a large standing army. He managed to raise such a large army by paying relatively low salaries to his soldiers and introduced market price controls to ensure that the low salaries were acceptable to his soldiers. 

Muhammad-bin-Tughluq's campaigns in the south were primarily aimed at expanding the territorial reach of the Delhi Sultanate.

Alauddin Khalji was an ambitious ruler. He needed a large army to complete his ambitious conquest. In order to maintain his large army, required money. For that, he fixed the prices of all commodities from the smallest to the biggest things. Besides price control, he kept an eye on prices or weight.

Nalanda and Vikramshila were the two most important centers of learning in India during the Pala Empire. But in 1193  army led by the Turkish leader Bakhtiyar Khilji who was the general of Qutubuddin Aibak destroyed them.

Alauddin's campaigns were driven by wealth, power, and imperialism; religion was not a primary motivation for his southern expansion.

Alauddin's price control regulations were designed to keep the cost of living low for the military and urban population, which primarily impacted the peasants who were forced to sell grain at fixed low prices.

The tripartite struggle for Kannauj involved the Gurjara-Pratiharas, the Palas, and the Rashtrakutas. The Paramaras were not part of this specific conflict.