Match List I with List II
List-I List-II
Building Built by
a) Kabuli Bagh Mosque 1) Qutb ud-Din Aibak
b) Adhai Din Ka Jhopra 2) Nur Jahan
c) Allahabad Fort 3) Akbar
d)

Question

Match List I with List II
List-I    List-II
Building    Built by
a)    Kabuli Bagh Mosque    1)    Qutb ud-Din Aibak
b)    Adhai Din Ka Jhopra    2)    Nur Jahan
c)    Allahabad Fort    3)    Akbar
d)    Itmad-ud-Daulah Mausoleum    4)    Babar
Select the correct answer using the codes given below :
a    b    c    d

UnlockIAS · Accepted Answer

Correct — A, 4 1 3 2. Take the four pairings one at a time. (a) Kabuli Bagh Mosque — 4, Babar. It stands at Panipat in Haryana and was built in 1527 by Babur to mark his victory over Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the First Battle of Panipat the previous year; it is named after Kabuli Begum, Babur's wife, and the mosque with its enclosure wall is a Monument of National Importance. (b) Adhai Din Ka Jhopra — 1, Qutb ud-Din Aibak. The Ajmer mosque, the oldest surviving monument in that city, was commissioned by Qutb ud-Din Aibak in 1192, designed by Abu Bakr of Herat, completed in 1199, and later enhanced by Iltutmish in 1213. (c) Allahabad Fort — 3, Akbar. Akbar raised it in 1583 at Prayag on the bank of the Yamuna near its confluence with the Ganga; Abu'l-Fazl records in the Akbarnama that the emperor had long wished to found a great city at Piyag, and the Archaeological Survey classes the fort a monument of national importance. (d) Itmad-ud-Daulah Mausoleum — 2, Nur Jahan. Built at Agra between 1622 and 1628, it was commissioned by Nur Jahan for her father Mirza Ghiyas Beg, the Persian noble who was made vazir after her marriage to Jahangir in 1611 and who carried the title I'timad-ud-Daulah, 'pillar of the state'. That gives a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2, which is the code 4 1 3 2 and only option A carries it. Note also that the same four pairings, sorted by date — Ajmer 1192-1199, Panipat 1527, Allahabad 1583, Agra 1622-1628 — line up in exactly the order Aibak, Babur, Akbar, Nur Jahan, so the mapping is forced by chronology alone. Two spellings in the printed list are worth fixing in your notes, because they are what you will search under later. The booklet's 'Adhai Din Ka Jhopra' is the monument catalogued as the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra, the 'shed of two and a half days', at Ajmer; its 'Itmad-ud-Daulah Mausoleum' is catalogued as the Tomb of I'timad-ud-Daulah at Agra. Neither variant changes the attribution, and neither was the point of the question — but a student who revises from the booklet spelling alone will not find the standard entry.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Gets only b-1 right and breaks the other three. It hands the Kabuli Bagh Mosque to Nur Jahan, who became Jahangir's consort in 1611 — eighty-four years after that mosque was finished in 1527. It hands the Allahabad Fort to Babar, who died in 1530, fifty-three years before the fort was built in 1583. And it hands the Itmad-ud-Daulah Mausoleum to Akbar, who died in 1605. Three chronological impossibilities in one code.  (c) The sharpest trap on the question, because it gets the first half exactly right — Kabuli Bagh to Babar and Adhai Din Ka Jhopra to Aibak — and then simply swaps the last two, giving the Allahabad Fort to Nur Jahan and the Itmad-ud-Daulah Mausoleum to Akbar. A candidate who is sure of Panipat and Ajmer but hazy about which Mughal built which monument on the Yamuna lands here. Akbar died in 1605; Mirza Ghiyas Beg died in 1622 and his tomb was begun that year.  (d) The mirror-image trap: it gets the second half right — Allahabad Fort to Akbar and Itmad-ud-Daulah to Nur Jahan — and swaps the first two, giving the Kabuli Bagh Mosque to Qutb ud-Din Aibak and the Adhai Din Ka Jhopra to Babar. Aibak died in 1210, three centuries before the 1527 mosque at Panipat, and Babur first entered India in 1526, more than three centuries after the Ajmer mosque was completed in 1199.

Concept: The four buildings are milestones along the whole arc of Indo-Islamic architecture in north India, which is why an examiner can set them as one list. The Adhai Din Ka Jhopra belongs to the very first Ghurid-Sultanate phase: begun in 1192, the year of the second battle of Tarain, on a site that had carried a Sanskrit college commissioned by the Chahamana king Vigraharaja IV, of which a tablet dated 1153 survives. It was raised mostly by Indian masons working under Afghan supervision, reused temple pillars, and kept much of its Indian ornament — Alexander Cunningham called it the Great Mosque of Ajmer, and Iltutmish added to it in 1213. Three centuries later the Kabuli Bagh Mosque opens the Mughal record as a victory monument rather than a palace. Akbar's Allahabad Fort belongs to the imperial red-sandstone phase, the same programme of massive river forts that had already produced the rebuilt Agra Fort from 1565. The Tomb of I'timad-ud-Daulah then marks the decisive turn: it is the first Mughal building finished in white marble, moving away from the red sandstone of Humayun's Tomb and Akbar's tomb at Sikandra and towards the marble and pietra dura that culminate in the Taj Mahal. Its walls are Rajasthan marble inlaid with carnelian, jasper, lapis lazuli, onyx and topaz, lit through carved jali screens, with four octagonal corner minarets about thirteen metres high — which is why it is nicknamed the Baby Taj and treated as the Taj's model.

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