CBSE Class 12 History Imperial Capital Vijaynagar Assignment

CBSE Class 12 History Imperial Capital Vijaynagar Assignment. Based on CBSE and CCE guidelines. The students should read these basic concepts to gain perfection which will help him to get more marks in CBSE examination.

Q.1:- Evaluate the importance of Amar Nayaka System in emergence of Vijayanagara Empire.

Ans. The amara-nayaka system was a major political innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire. It is likely that many features of this sytem were derived from the iqta system of the Delhi Sultanate.

There is a important role of this sytem to emerging the Vijayanagara empire. That shows in the following points :

(i) The amara-nayakas were military commanders who were given territories to govern by the raya. The collected taxes and other dues from peasants.

(ii) The amar nayak retained part of the revenue for personal use and for maintaining a stipulated contingent of horses and elephants.

(iii) These contingents provided the Vijayanagara Kings with an effective fighting force with which they brought the entire southern peninsula under their control. Some of the revenue was also used for the maintenance of temples and irrigation works.

(iv) The amara-nayakas sent tribute to the King annually and personally appeared in the royal court with gifts to express their loyalty.

(v) Kings occasionally asserted their control over them by transferring them from one place to another.

Q2:- What do you think were the advantages and disadvantages of enclosing agricultural land within the fortified area of the city ?

Ans. There are many advantages and disadvantages of enclosing agricultural land within the fortified area of the Vijayanagara empire.

1. Abdur Razzaq noted that "between the first, second and third walls there are cultivated fields, gardens and houses.

2. The detailed statements have been corroborated by present day archaeologists, who have also found evidence of an agricultural tract between the sacred centre and the urban core.

3. We knew different sources that in Vijayanagara empire and other southern kingdom agricultural tracts were incorporated within the fortified areas. Often, the objective of medieval sieges was to strave the defenders into submission. These sieges could last four several months and sometimes even years.

4. Normally rulers tried to be prepared for adverse situations or natural calamities by building large granaries within fortified areas. The rulers of Vijayanagara adopted a more expensive and elaborate strategy of protecting the agricultural belt itself.

5. Whenever, Kingdom was attacked by the enemies at the time of heaping harvest they could easily brunt the dry crops of the farmers. But these fields was safe in ordinary situation from wild animals.

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