SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 18 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 6 of 100

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What position did Hindu Beg hold during Humayun’s reign?

(a)Rajput chief
(b)Court scholar
(c)Provincial governor
(d)Spiritual guide

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Hindu Beg was a Mughal noble and commander, not a chief, a scholar or a saint.

An inscription in the Jama Masjid at Sambhal says Babur's general Mir Hindu Beg built it on Babur's orders by 6 December 1526. Historian Catherine Asher reads it as Babur's permission to a regional governor to build a mosque. A governing noble is what option (c) describes.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Rajput chief — 'Hindu' in the name misleads. Beg is a Turkic title of rank, and Hindu Beg built a mosque on Babur's orders. He was a Mughal noble, not a Rajput chief.
(b)
Court scholar — He appears in the record as Babur's general, a man of arms and administration, not a scholar at court.
(d)
Spiritual guide — He was a military noble, Babur's general, not a Sufi or a spiritual guide to the emperor.

Concept

Babur and Humayun ruled through nobles, begs and amirs, who led troops and were given charge of territories.

Seven months after Panipat (1526), Mir Hindu Beg finished the Sambhal Jama Masjid, and its inscription calls him Babur's general. Historian Catherine Asher reads that inscription as Babur's permission to a regional governor to build a mosque.

An honest limit: the sources checked for this card record Hindu Beg as Babur's general at Sambhal, and none of them names the province he held under Humayun.

What they do settle is the kind of man he was, a noble who commanded and governed, and option (c) is the one that describes that.

Key facts

An inscription in the Sambhal Jama Masjid says Babur's general Mir Hindu Beg built it on Babur's orders by 6 December 1526.
Historian Catherine Asher reads the Sambhal inscription as Babur's permission to a regional governor to build a mosque.
Beg is a Turkic title of rank, so the name Hindu Beg does not make him a Hindu chief.

Study next

Humayun and Sher Khan: the battles of Chausa (1539) and Kannauj (1540)How Humayun shared the empire with his brothers Kamran, Askari and Hindal

Common traps

Reading 'Hindu' in the name as a Rajput or Hindu chief.
Confusing Hindu Beg with Hindal, Humayun's brother.

Humayun's reign is also asked at 19 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.7 (the Battle of Chausa, 1539) and 19 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.9 (Kamran's share: Afghanistan and Punjab).

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