Delhi | MCQs

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• The third Delhi Durbar was held in 1911 to celebrate the coronation of King George V.
• The Delhi Durbar was an Indian imperial-style mass assembly organized by the British to mark the succession of an Emperor or Empress of India.
• The Durbar was held three times, in 1877, 1903 and 1911, at the height of the British Empire. 
• The 1911 Durbar was the only one that a sovereign, George V, attended.

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Delhi Sultanate lasted from 1206 to 1526.

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Purana Qila is one of the oldest forts in Delhi, India.

Built by the second Mughal Emperor Humayun and Surid Sultan Sher Shah Suri.

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Alaud-Dīn Khaljī, born Ali Gurshasp, was a Turco-Afghan emperor of the Khalji dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate in the Indian subcontinent

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Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, was the founder of the Tughluq dynasty in India.

who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1320 to 1325.

He founded the city of Tughluqabad.