INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Alberuni [AD 973-AD 1048] Abu Rayhan Muhammad Ibn Ahmad. Alberuni, short for, Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, was a renowned philosopher, mathematician, historian and one of the jewels in the court of sultan of Mahmud of Ghazni.

Detailed explanation-2: -The correct answer is Mahmud Ghajnavi. Alberuni was the contemporary of Mahmud Ghajnavi. He came in contact with Mahmud when he had invaded Khiva and he was presented before him as a prisoner.

Detailed explanation-3: -Al-Biruni was a traveller from Uzbekistan thousands of years ago. He wrote about the various skills of people of India for making ponds and different techniques of water conservation in ancient India.

Detailed explanation-4: -He has been called variously the “founder of Indology", “Father of Comparative Religion", “Father of modern geodesy", and the first anthropologist. Al-Biruni was well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist, and linguist.

Detailed explanation-5: -Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi, or just Ferdowsi was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh, which is one of the world’s longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the national epic of Greater Iran.