WBCS Preliminary Examination 2021 — General Studies · Question 98 of 200

Answer: (B) Iqtiaruddin Bin Baktiar Khilji

Ikhtiyaruddin Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, a general under Qutbuddin Aibak, surprised Nadia (Nabadwip) around 1204-05, forcing Lakshmana Sena to flee to East Bengal, and set up his capital at Lakhnauti (Gaur); he had earlier destroyed Nalanda, Vikramashila and Odantapuri and died in 1206 after a failed Tibet expedition. Timur invaded Delhi in 1398; Chengiz Khan reached only the Indus in 1221 (in Iltutmish's time); Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan was Akbar's noble and a Hindi poet (Rahim's dohas). The main source for Bakhtiyar's raid is Minhaj-us-Siraj's Tabaqat-i-Nasiri.