Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists :
List – I (Ruling Dynasties)
A. Pallava
B. Pandya
C. Yadava
D. Kaktiya
List – II (Capitals)
1. Waranga

Question

Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists :
List – I (Ruling Dynasties)
A. Pallava
B. Pandya
C. Yadava
D. Kaktiya
List – II (Capitals)
1. Warangal
2. Kanchi
3. Madura
4. Devagiri
Codes :

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Correct — B, A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1. All four pairs are standard and independently verifiable. The Pallavas ruled from Kanchi (Kanchipuram) in northern Tamil Nadu, the seat from which Mahendravarman I and Narasimhavarman I built the rock-cut and structural temple tradition that culminates at Mamallapuram and in the Kailasanatha temple at Kanchi itself. The Pandyas ruled from Madura (Madurai) on the Vaigai, their capital from Sangam times through the thirteenth-century revival under the Sundara Pandyas, with Korkai as their pearl-fishery port. The Yadavas — the Seunas — ruled from Devagiri in the western Deccan, the hill fortress that Alauddin Khalji raided in 1296 and that Muhammad bin Tughlaq later renamed Daulatabad and made his second capital. The Kakatiyas ruled from Warangal, called Orugallu in Telugu, the capital of Ganapatideva, Rudrama Devi and Prataparudra until the Delhi Sultanate took it in 1323. Only code (b) carries all four of these pairings.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) It puts Pallava at Kanchi and Yadava at Devagiri correctly, then swaps the remaining two: it makes Warangal the Pandya capital and Madura the Kakatiya capital. Warangal is unambiguously Kakatiya and Madurai unambiguously Pandya, so the last two legs are inverted.  (c) This is the plain 1-2-3-4 sequence and every pair fails. It places the Pallavas at Warangal, the Pandyas at Kanchi, the Yadavas at Madurai and the Kakatiyas at Devagiri. A single check — Pallava must be Kanchi — knocks it out at once.  (d) Pallava-Kanchi and Kakatiya-Warangal are right, but it hands Devagiri to the Pandyas and Madurai to the Yadavas. Devagiri is deep in the western Deccan and was never a Tamil capital, while Madurai lies at the southern tip of the peninsula and was never held by the Seuna Yadavas.

Concept: The list spans two eras of peninsular history. The Pallavas of Kanchi (roughly sixth to ninth centuries) and the Pandyas of Madurai are the older Tamil powers, locked with the Chalukyas and later the Cholas in the classic triangular contests of south India. The Yadavas of Devagiri and the Kakatiyas of Warangal belong to the twelfth-to-fourteenth-century Deccan, both emerging from the wreck of the Later Chalukya empire, both patrons of major temple architecture, and both destroyed within a generation by the Khalji and Tughlaq expeditions southwards — the Yadavas finally annexed in 1317-18 and the Kakatiyas in 1323. Learning them as dynasty-capital pairs also fixes the political map that the Delhi Sultanate marched into.

State PCS 2019 Q55 — History PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2019 Q55 — History PYQ with Answer