1. What does the word "mulk" mean?
2. Which term denotes a foreigner or outsider of a country?
3. During the Bahmani period, migrants from the armies of the Khilji and Tughlaq clans who settled in the Deccan came to be known as?
4. Muslims who migrated to the Bahmani empire from Iran, Iraq, Arabia, and Turkey were called?
5. Which Bahmani king appointed Mohammed Gavan, an Aphaki, as prime minister?
6. Aphakis in the Bahmani empire belonged to which sect of Islam, in contrast to the Sunni deccanies?
7. In which city was the Bahmani prime minister Mahmud Gavan assassinated by deccani nobles?
8. In which year did the Bahmani empire collapse as a result of aphaki–deccani rivalry?
9. How many successor kingdoms emerged from the breakdown of the Bahmani empire?
10. Who founded the Qutub Shahi dynasty?
11. In 1674, Miir Jumla's successor Abul Hasan Tanisha appointed Madanna to which position?
12. The mulki issue did not arise during the Qutub Shahi period mainly because the rulers respected which of the following?
13. Who founded the Asaf Jahi dynasty in Hyderabad?
14. During which Nizam's reign did the mulki problem intensify, marking the start of organised mulki movements?
15. Salarjung-I's administrative and revenue reforms primarily drew migrants to Hyderabad from which two North Indian communities?
16. Which two officials, assistants of Salarjung-I, played a key role in facilitating the arrival of non-mulkis?
17. The collapse of the Mughal empire, which drove many job-seekers to migrate to Hyderabad, followed which 1857 event?
18. Salarjung-I was compelled to appoint educated men from which university, despite his reluctance to employ non-mulkis?
19. Which of the following was denied to non-mulki officers under Salarjung-I's administration?
20. Salarjung-I rejected a proposal to replace which language with Urdu as the official language of the state?
21. In which year did Salarjung-I issue the first Mulki Orders confining employment in Hyderabad's administrative offices to mulkis?
22. Mulkis submitted a memorandum to Mahboob Ali Khan alleging Salarjung-II's bias towards non-mulkis. What was this memorandum called?
23. In the Employees' Civil List of 1886, what percentage of employees were born in Hyderabad State?
24. In which year was the first official gazette using the word "mulki" issued by Mahboob Ali Khan?
25. As per the 1888 gazette, how many years of residence in the state qualified a person as mulki?
26. In which year was Maharaja Sir Kishan Parshad, a Hindu mulki, appointed Diwan of Hyderabad?
27. What approximate percentage of Hyderabad state's population was Hindu at the time the mulki–non-mulki conflict peaked?
28. Which finance minister under Kishan Parshad divided Urdu into "Northern Urdu" and "Southern Urdu"?
29. The 1910 government notification for the protection of mulkis mandated that job recruitment be conducted through which method rather than political intervention?
30. Which Diwan is remembered as the "godfather of the mulki movement"?
31. Which magazine used to publish news favouring mulki rights?
32. Which magazine, favouring non-mulkis, published that non-mulkis were descendants of people invited by Salarjung?
33. Rai Balamukund, the first Hindu mulki graduate in Hyderabad state, belonged to which caste?
34. In which year was Rai Balamukund appointed Chief Justice of the Hyderabad High Court?
35. In which year did Mir Osman Ali Khan establish Osmania University?
36. What was the medium of instruction started at Osmania University?
37. Osmania University's Urdu translation department used which form of Urdu, causing a divide with the Deccani Urdu spoken locally?
38. Which Osmania University professor proposed the concept of "Deccan Nationalism"?
39. In which year was the Idara-e-Adabiyat-e-Urdu library, associated with Deccan Nationalism, started by OU's mulki professors?
40. The Muslim Sovereignty theory, which emerged in opposition to Deccan Nationalism, was later widely used by which organisation?
41. In which year did Mir Osman Ali Khan issue the Farman defining "Mulki Rules"?
42. Under the 1919 Farman, a person completing how many years of permanent residence in Hyderabad state could be considered mulki (with an affidavit of non-return)?
43. Under the 1919 Farman, which officials were given authority to issue Mulki Certificates?
44. Under the 1919 Farman, whose decision was declared final on an appeal against a rejected mulki certificate application?
45. The 1919 Farman established which independent body for the selection of employees?
46. In which year did the Civil Services Executive Council appoint a committee to study civil services?
47. Following the 1938 committee's report, a Farman issued on 27 April 1947 created which body?
48. The Hyderabad Public Service Commission, formed in 1947, comprised a chairman and how many other members?
49. In which year was the Osmania Graduates Association, a mulki political organisation, formed in Hyderabad?
50. Which organisation, formed in 1921, aimed at achieving constitutional reforms in Hyderabad state?
51. The Society of Union and Progress, formed in 1926 to motivate people towards a responsible government, was established by Hyderabadi students studying in which city?
52. Under whose leadership was the Hyderabad Association started in 1930?
53. What did the Hyderabad Association, started in 1930, primarily demand?
54. In which year did Mir Osman Ali Khan issue a Farman giving priority to educated, efficient mulkis in recruitment?
55. The 1933 Farman was issued partly in response to the direct appointment of officials from which region to senior posts in Hyderabad in 1930?
56. Which Hyderabad Kotwal supported mulki activists in connection with the 1933 Farman?
57. In which year was the Nizam Subjects League (Nizam Mulki League) formed?
58. What was the Nizam Subjects League called in Telugu?
59. Who served as President of the Nizam Subjects League?
60. Who served as Treasurer of the Nizam Subjects League?
61. Consider the following pairs regarding the Nizam Subjects League:
(I) President – Nawab Sir Nizamat Jung
(II) Treasurer – Barrister Noushid Chinay
(III) Vice-President – Dr. Lateef Sayyid
Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?
62. Sayyid Abid Hassan, a secretary of the Nizam Subjects League, authored a book titled?
63. A committee formed under whose leadership, following pressure from the Nizam Subjects League, led to amendments strengthening the Mulki Rules in 1939?
64. What development within the Nizam's own attitude eventually caused public enthusiasm for the Nizam Subjects League to cool?
65. In which year was the Nizam Subjects League dissolved?
66. Which organisation did Muslim intellectuals influenced by the Muslim Sovereignty ideology join after leaving the Nizam Subjects League?
67. A split within the Nizam Subjects League in 1937 led Hindu members to leave and form which organisation?
68. In which year was the Aravamudam Iyengar Committee appointed by the Nizam's government for political reforms?
69. On which date did Operation Polo (Police Action) end Nizam rule in Hyderabad?
70. Who served as Military Governor of Hyderabad from September 1948 to December 1949?
71. From which region did J. N. Chaudhuri, the first Military Governor of Hyderabad, hail?
72. M. K. Vellodi introduced English and Telugu as official languages in place of which language?
73. The new government resolved that, by 1 January 1954, what percentage of civil posts would be filled by categories other than the single social class that had earlier dominated them?
74. Who was appointed Public Service Commission officer after independence to help address corruption in employment?
75. Employment exchanges to fill lower- and mid-level government posts were set up in Hyderabad, Warangal, and which other city?
76. Consider the following statements regarding the 1949 Mulki Regulations issued under M. K. Vellodi's administration:
(I) Provision 1(A) defined mulki as a person native by birth
(II) Provision 1(C) required the father to have completed 15 years of government service by the time of the person's birth
(III) Government appointments were held to not require compliance with these two provisions
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
77. Which newspaper reported repeated violations of the Mulki Rules after Hyderabad's merger with India?
78. The developments of large-scale Andhra recruitment and mistreatment of Telangana people ultimately led to which movement in 1952?
79. Which scholar's institution patronised "Northern" (non-mulki) Urdu?
80. Deccani (mulki) Urdu was patronised by the Acharya Peetham of which scholar?
81. Consider the following pairs regarding Urdu institutional patronage:
(I) Northern Urdu – Idara Adabiyat-e-Urdu
(II) Deccani Urdu – Anjuman Tarraqi-e-Urdu
Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?
82. Which translation department was set up at Osmania University to translate reference texts into Urdu?
83. The scholarly translations produced by Osmania University's translation department are noted as remaining useful today in which country?
84. Under whose presidency was the Hyderabad People's Education Conference session held in April 1941?
85. Consider the following resolutions adopted at the April 1941 Hyderabad People's Education Conference:
(I) Instruction up to Matriculation should be in the student's own mother tongue
(II) Hindi and Sanskrit should be taught as languages
(III) Students should be permitted to sing Vande Mataram
Which of the above is/are correct?
86. As President of the Prajamandali, who submitted a memorandum to the state government in May 1941 demanding instruction in Telugu, Marathi, and Kannada?
87. Joshi's May 1941 memorandum demanded that primary education be made free and which other quality?
88. Consider the following demands made in Joshi's May 1941 memorandum to the state government:
(I) Instruction should be conducted in Telugu, Marathi, and Kannada
(II) Orders banning Khaki schools should be withdrawn
(III) Regional languages should be declared official languages in their respective regions
Which of the above is/are correct?
89. As presiding chairman of the Hyderabad Prajaa Vidya Mahasabha, who delivered a historic address on 11 November 1944?
90. In his 1944 address, Burgula Ramakrishna Rao argued it made no sense to continue teaching students not native to which language in that same language?
91. Burgula Ramakrishna Rao's 1944 address noted that access to schools using which medium of instruction remained difficult for Hindu children?
