Question

Who was the Mughal ruler who died by falling from the stairs of his library.
A)Babur
B)Akbar
C)Humayun
D)Aurangzeb

Answer 1

Hint: Muslim rule extended over much of India during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE. Most of the new rulers came down into the subcontinent from what is now Afghanistan and the Mughals ruled India the longest.

Complete answer: Option A: Babur, Babur was the regnal name of Nasīr-ad-Dīn Muhammad, he was born on 6th march 1508 and was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire, who ruled over territory in what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northern India, and Bangladesh from 1530 to1556
Option B : Akbar, was popularly known as Akbar the great and was the third Mughal emperor. He died in 1605 after he fell ill with an attack of dysentery from which he never recovered.
Option C : Humayun died by falling from the steps of the library. On the evening of 24th January , 1556, with his arms full of books, was descending the staircase from his library which was situated in that group of the buildings known as Din Panah and was subsequently called "Sher Mandal". He was talking to some of his distinguished nobles and astrologers and it was arranged to hold a durbar at the time of the appearance of the planet Venus. He got up in order to descend the steep stairs after the muezzin announced the Azaan (the call to prayer).He caught his foot in his robe, slipped down several steps and fractured his skull from a rugged stone edge. He died three days later on January 26, 1556 and was buried at Purana Qila ( old fort) in Delhi, India.
Option D : Aurangzeb, was the sixth mughal emperor, his regnal title was Alamgir he died on 20th February 1707,at his military camp in Bhingar near Ahmednagar.

Thus, Option C is the right answer.

Note: Mughals created a beautiful and flourishing multicultural, multiethnic, and religiously diverse India under their reign. They began to rule parts of India from 1526 until the 1850’s.