Question

The ceremonial halls of public and private audiences were called as______during the mughal period.
(A) Mahamandapa
(B) Qibla
(C) Diwan-i-aam/ Diwan-i-khas
(D) Hasht bihisht

Answer 1

Hint: Hall of Private Audiences or the ceremonial hall of public and private audience, was a chamber in the Red Fort of Delhi constructed in 1648 as an area for gatherings. It was where the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan got retainers and state visitors. It was otherwise called the Shah Mahal.

Complete answer: The Mughal design, the formal corridors of the public and private crowd were known as diwan-I-aam and diwan-I khas. Put inside a huge yard, these courts were additionally depicted as chihil sutun or forty-pillared corridors.
The platform on which Shah Jahan's seat was set was much of the time portrayed as the qibla. Hasht bihist was a focal corridor encircled by eight rooms.
Through the focal point of the corridor streamed the Stream of Paradise (Nahar-I-Bihisht). The structure used to have red shades or shamianas. Over the corner-curves of the northern and southern dividers underneath the molding is engraved the section of Amir Khusrow: "If there be a heaven on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this." The French explorer François Bernier portrayed seeing the Peacock Throne here. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier depicted seeing the seat in the Diwan-I-Am, to where it was most likely moved, and portrayed five more modest seats with four on each corner and one in the hall.

Option C is correct answer

Note: A door on the north side of the former Diwan-I-Am crowd corridor prompted the deepest court of the royal residence called Jalau Khana and the Diwan-I-Khas. Originally there were two fenced-in areas on the west of the lobby, one for the aristocrats and the other for those of a lower rank. These arcaded courts were devastated after the Indian Rebellion of 1857.