Question

Humayun's Tomb, built in 1570, is a fine specimen of great ____ architecture.

1. British
2. Chola
3. Mughal
4. Magadh

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Mughal

The correct answer is Mughal.

• Humayun's Tomb, built-in 1570, is a fine specimen of great Mughal architecture.
  • Humayun's tomb in the capital Delhi is a fine specimen of the great Mughal architecture.
  • Built-in 1570, the tomb is of particular cultural significance as it was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent.
  • Humayun's tomb is the tomb of the Mughal Emperor in Delhi, India.
  • The tomb was commissioned by Humayun's first wife and chief consort, Empress Bega Begum.
  •  In 1558 designed by Mirak Mirza Ghiyas and his son, Sayyid Muhammad.
• Hence, the correct option is 3.

• British :
  • British architects in India in the later 19th century, especially in public and government buildings in the British Raj.
  • The All India War Memorial Arch, also known as the India Gate is one of the monuments built by the British.
  • The monument was designed by the famous British architect Edward Lutyens and was completed in 1931.
  • This impressive structure is also a work of art by the British architect Edward Lutyens.
  •  The 1490s, while other historians date the empire from the early 1600s.
  • The end of the empire came in the years after World War 2, with most of Britain's colonies ruling themselves independently by the late 1960s.
• Chola :
  • ​The Cholas ruled for more than 1,500 years, making them one of the longest-ruling families in human history, if not the longest.
  • The Chola Empire was based in the Kaveri River Valley, which runs southeast through Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and the southern Deccan Plateau to the Bay of Bengal.
  • The Chola dynasty was a Tamil thalassocracy empire of southern India, one of the longest-ruling dynasties in the world's history.
• Magadha :
  • The Hindu Mahabharata calls Brihadratha the first ruler of Magadha.
  • King Bimbisara of the Haryanka dynasty led an active and expansive policy, conquering the Kingdom of Anga in what is now West Bengal.
  • King Bimbisara was killed by his son, Prince Ajatashatru.
  • Magadha was an ancient Indian kingdom in southern Bihar, and was counted as one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas, 'Great Kingdoms' of ancient India.
  • Magadha played an important role in the development of Jainism and Buddhism, and two of India's greatest empires, the Maurya Empire and the Gupta Empire, originated in Magadha.