Indian States & UTs GK Questions with Answers – Page 17

The Bailadila range in Dantewada district holds some of the finest haematite iron ore in the world, mined by the National Mineral Development Corporation, and the name is said to come from the hump of an ox, which the range resembles.

Chitrakote Falls is in the Bastar region on the Indravati, a tributary of the Godavari, and its broad horseshoe curve, the widest fall in India, earns it the name Niagara of India.

When the state was formed in 2000 the High Court was established at Bilaspur, so the capital and the seat of the High Court are in different cities, a split the examiner likes.

The eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh, long known as the Chhattisgarh region, were separated under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000.

Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000, becoming the twenty-sixth state of India and the first of the three states created that year.

Jharkhand is bounded by Bihar to the north, West Bengal to the east, Odisha to the south, Chhattisgarh to the west and Uttar Pradesh to the north-west, so it touches five states, and Madhya Pradesh is not among them.

The Jaduguda mine in the Singhbhum belt began operating in the late nineteen sixties and is India's first and best known uranium mine, worked by the Uranium Corporation of India Limited, whose headquarters is also in the district; the same belt holds the copper mines around Ghatsila and Mosaboni.

Seraikela, in the Seraikela Kharsawan district, gives its name to one of the three recognised styles of Chhau, a masked dance drama inscribed on the UNESCO list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity in 2010; the other two styles are Mayurbhanj in Odisha, which is danced without masks, and…

Sarhul marks the new year for many tribal communities of the Chhotanagpur plateau and is celebrated when the sal tree comes into flower in spring; the village priest offers the first sal blossoms, and only after the festival may the new flowers and fruit of the season be used.

The Damodar Valley Corporation was created by an Act of Parliament in 1948 as independent India's first multipurpose river valley project, built on the American Tennessee Valley Authority model to control the floods of the Damodar, generate power and supply water across what is now Jharkhand and West Bengal; its…

Betla National Park lies in the Latehar district on the Chhotanagpur plateau and forms the core of the Palamu Tiger Reserve, which was among the first group of tiger reserves notified when Project Tiger was launched in 1973 and is often cited as the place where an early census of…

The Santhal Hul of 1855 and 1856 was raised in the Santhal Pargana region against revenue officials, moneylenders and the police, and was led by Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu along with their brothers Chand and Bhairav; its suppression led the colonial government to create a separately administered Santhal Pargana.

The word means the great tumult, and it is the name given to the movement Birsa Munda led in the Chhotanagpur region in 1899 and 1900 against landlords, moneylenders, missionaries and the colonial administration, demanding the restoration of tribal land rights; Birsa died in Ranchi jail in June 1900, and…

Standing in the Giridih district on the Chhotanagpur plateau, Parasnath is the highest point in Jharkhand and is revered by Jains as Sammed Shikhar, the place where a number of their Tirthankaras are believed to have attained liberation, which makes it one of the most important Jain pilgrimage sites in…

Ranchi is the capital of Jharkhand and the seat of its High Court, while Dumka, the headquarters of the Santhal Pargana division in the east of the state, was named the sub-capital so that administration would not be concentrated entirely in one city.

The southern, largely tribal plateau districts of Bihar were separated to form Jharkhand under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, after a demand that had been pressed since the days of the Chhotanagpur Unnati Samaj and the Adivasi Mahasabha led by Jaipal Singh Munda.

Jharkhand was created on that day under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, becoming the twenty-eighth state of India, and the date was chosen because it is the birth anniversary of the tribal leader Birsa Munda, now observed nationally as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas.

Kullu Dussehra begins on Vijayadashami, the day the Dussehra of the plains ends, runs for seven days at the Dhalpur maidan and centres on the chariot of Raghunath ji, whom the village deities of the valley come to attend; it is recognised as an international festival.

The Atal Tunnel runs about nine kilometres under the Rohtang Pass on the Pir Panjal, was inaugurated in October 2020 and gives the Lahaul valley a road to Manali through the winter, when the pass itself is closed by snow.

Lahaul and Spiti is the largest district of the state in area and one of the most thinly peopled districts in India, a cold desert beyond the Pir Panjal that holds the Tabo, Key and Dhankar monasteries and the Chandra Tal Ramsar site.