Haryana Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers

A sprinkler breaks water into drops and spreads it like rain, so the field does not have to be levelled and no flowing sheet of water is needed.

In check or check basin irrigation the field is levelled and divided into small rectangular plots, each enclosed by low bunds or levees, and water is let into one plot at a time until the required depth stands in it.

The Jhelum is called Vitasta in the Rigveda, and it is one of the seven rivers of the Sapta Sindhu, the land in which the hymns were composed.

The Census of 2011 found that 31.16 per cent of Indians lived in urban areas and the remaining 68.84 per cent in villages.

Among the union territories Puducherry recorded 1,037 females for every 1,000 males in 2011, the only union territory with more women than men and the highest figure in that group.

The Census of 2011 recorded 879 females for every 1,000 males in Haryana, the lowest figure of any state in the country, against a national average of 943.

The correct answer, as marked in the paper, is D, Kankrej. The Kankrej of the Kutch and Banaskantha country is rated the best of the Indian dual purpose cattle breeds: it is the largest and heaviest of them, its bullocks have the fastest and most enduring gait of any Indian…

The Merino, of Spanish origin and now reared in large numbers in Australia, is the standard fine wool sheep of the world, its fleece being soft, dense and of very small fibre diameter.

The corrected lactometer reading, written CLR, is the figure read on the neck of a lactometer floating in milk, and the specific gravity is obtained from it by the simple relation one plus the reading divided by one thousand.

In the Gerber test a measured quantity of milk is mixed with sulphuric acid and amyl alcohol in a butyrometer and spun in a centrifuge; the acid digests everything but the fat, which rises into the graduated neck of the tube and is read off directly as a percentage.

The Hariana is the indigenous cattle breed of the Rohtak, Hisar, Jind and Gurugram tract, a dual purpose animal that gives milk and whose bullocks were once the standard draught animal of the north western plains.

Ambala lies in the north-eastern corner of Haryana, inside the command of the canals drawn from the Yamuna system, and its fields are watered mainly by that flow supply rather than by any other source; the Dadupur head on the Western Yamuna Canal was built to carry water into this…

The Shatapatha Brahmana belongs to the Shukla or White Yajurveda and the Taittiriya Brahmana to the Krishna or Black Yajurveda, so both are Brahmana texts of the Yajurveda.

These three receive the largest number of hymns in the Rigveda. Indra, the war god and breaker of forts, has the greatest number; Agni, the fire that carries the offering to the gods, comes next; and Soma, both a plant and a god, has the whole of the ninth mandala…

The Gayatri Mantra first appears in the third mandala of the Rigveda and is ascribed to the sage Vishvamitra. It is addressed to Savitr, the sun, and it is composed in the Gayatri metre, from which it takes its popular name.