Question

Vijaya Stambh was built in 1448 to commemorate the victory over combined armies of _______ led by Mahmud Khilji.
A) Delhi and Agra
B) Malwa and Gujarat
C) Gujarat and Bundelkhand
D) Marathas and Nizams

Answer 1

Hint: Rana Kumbha was conceived in a Hindu Rajput family of the Sisodia tribe. Kumbha was the successor of Rana Mokal Singh of Mewar and Sobhagya Devi. Sobhagya Devi was the daughter of Jaitmal Sankhla, the Paramara fief-holder of Runkot in the province of Marwar.

Complete Answer:
Rana Kumbha in the wake of consolidating his kingdom began a mission to conquer the neighboring states. He vanquished Sambhar, Ajmer, and Ranthambore among different areas. He additionally oppressed the Rajput territories of Dungarpur, Bundi, and Kotah. These states had recently honored the Sultans of Malwa and Gujarat bringing about threats among Mewar and the Sultans. Kumbha would additionally meddle in the governmental issues of Nagaur at long last bringing about a full-scale battle among Mewar and the Sultanates.

The Vijay Stambha is a triumph landmark situated inside Chittorgarh fort in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, India. The pinnacle was built by the Mewar ruler, Rana Kumbha, in 1448 to celebrate his triumph over the consolidated multitudes of Malwa and Gujarat driven by Mahmud Khilji. The pinnacle is devoted to Vishnu. While Vijay Stambha is actually a Kirti Stambh or Kirti Stambh, a "tower of fame".

Thus, option (B) is correct.

Note:
Sisodias, like other Rajput factions, claim to have descended from the legendary Suryavansha. Rajprashasti Mahakavyam, a seventeenth-century commendatory text authorized by Mewar's ruler Rana Raj Singh, contains a mostly legendary, halfway amazing, and incompletely recorded ancestry of the Sisodias. The work was written by Ranchhod Bhatt, a Telangana Brahmin whose family got normal endowments from the Sisodias. The parentage follows the tradition's inception to the leaders of Ayodhya, beginning with Manu, who was prevailing by a few heads from the Ikshvaku line, for example, Rama.