Indian States & UTs GK Questions with Answers – Page 7

The Ten Degree Channel runs along the ten degree north parallel and divides the Andaman group from the Nicobar group, with Little Andaman on its northern side and Car Nicobar on its southern side.

This small uninhabited island in the Andaman Sea, north-east of the territorial capital, carries the only confirmed active volcano in India and in the whole of South Asia.

Chhath Puja is the great folk festival of Bihar, kept also in eastern Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, in which women observe a long fast, stand in a river or pond and offer arghya first to the setting sun and then to the rising sun on the following morning, worshipping Surya…

The Kalbelia are a community of Rajasthan traditionally associated with snake catching, and their women dance in long black skirts with a swirling, serpentine movement to the been and the khanjari.

The great Indian bustard, called Godawan in Rajasthan, is a tall grassland bird of the Thar region and is the state bird of Rajasthan, whose state animal is the chinkara, state tree the khejri and state flower the rohida.

The red panda, a small reddish-brown mammal of the eastern Himalayan bamboo forests, is the state animal of Sikkim, which also has the blood pheasant as state bird, the rhododendron as state tree and the noble orchid as state flower.

The hangul is a subspecies of the red deer found in the Kashmir valley, and its last substantial population survives in the Dachigam National Park near Srinagar, which is why hangul and Dachigam are always asked together.

Wangala is the post-harvest thanksgiving festival of the Garo people of Meghalaya, offered to Misi Saljong the sun god, and it is called the hundred drums festival because long drums are beaten together in lines while dancers in feathered headgear move in formation.

Hojagiri is danced by the women of the Reang community of Tripura, who balance on the rim of an earthen pitcher and keep a bottle with a lit lamp steady on the head while moving only the lower half of the body, so the upper body stays almost still.

Bathukamma is celebrated for nine days around Mahalaya Amavasya in the monsoon, when women of Telangana stack seasonal flowers in the shape of a temple tower, sing round it in a circle each evening, and on the last day set it afloat in a tank or stream.

The Hornbill Festival is held each December at the Naga Heritage Village at Kisama near Kohima, where all the major tribes of Nagaland put up their morungs and present their dances, songs, crafts, wrestling and food, which is why it is called the festival of festivals.

Cheraw is the best known dance of Mizoram, in which men sit facing each other and clap long bamboo staves together in rhythm while women dancers step in and out of the closing poles.

Sattriya grew in the sattras, the Vaishnava monasteries of Assam established in the devotional movement of Srimanta Sankardeva in the sixteenth century, where it was performed by celibate monks as part of worship.

Kuchipudi takes its name from the village of Kuchipudi in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, where the dance-drama tradition of the Bhagavatulu performers grew, and Siddhendra Yogi is remembered as the teacher who shaped it.

Like the Rajya Sabha, a Legislative Council is a continuing body: it is not subject to dissolution, each member holds office for six years, and one-third of the members retire every second year, so the house is renewed in stages.

Article 170 provides that the Legislative Assembly of a state shall consist of not more than five hundred and not fewer than sixty members chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies, with lower minimums permitted by law for small states such as Goa, Sikkim and Mizoram.

The jurisdiction of the Kerala High Court, which sits at Kochi, extends over the state of Kerala and the union territory of Lakshadweep, whose capital is Kavaratti.

When the old High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad was bifurcated with effect from the first of January 2019, the Telangana High Court continued at Hyderabad and a separate High Court for Andhra Pradesh began functioning at Amaravati.

Under the Nagpur Pact of 1953, agreed when the Vidarbha region joined the new bilingual Bombay State and later Maharashtra, Nagpur was made the second capital of the state and at least one session of the legislature each year, the winter session, is held there.

The principal seat of the Madhya Pradesh High Court is at Jabalpur, with benches at Gwalior and Indore, while the capital of the state is Bhopal.