Tag: tracing changes through a thousand years

Society became differentiated and people were grouped into jatis or sub-castes and ranked on the basis of their backgrounds and their occupations. Ranks were not fixed permanently and varied according to the power, influence and resource controlled by members of the jati. The status of the same jati could vary from area to area.

Answer- (B) - Abu Nasr Utbi

'Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi' was a book written by Ziauddin Barani during the Sultanate period in India. So it was written in medieval India, not modern India.

Manuscripts are handwritten records of the past and are in the form of books. Palm leaves were used as writing materials in the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia dating back to the 5th century BCE. Some of the most common genres were bibles, religious commentaries, philosophy, law and government texts.

Brahmanas had a lot of respect in society. Their dominant position was consolidated by the support of their patrons-new rulers searching for prestige.Patron is an influential  wealthy individual who supports another person, an artiste, a craftsperson, a learned man, or a noble.

The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism is known as that animal's habitat. It also includes the social environment and Economic lifestyle of the people as Habitat encompasses a person's usual or preferred surroundings.