Indian States & UTs Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers

Statement 1 is true, but West Bengal, not Rajasthan, has the longest international border, and Sikkim is not the only State bordering just one State, since Meghalaya touches only Assam.

The merger was made by an Act of Parliament and the Bombay High Court still has jurisdiction, but the merged UT has two Lok Sabha seats, not three.

Bonalu is celebrated in the month of Ashada, roughly July and August, when women carry cooked rice with milk and jaggery in decorated pots on their heads as an offering to the goddess Mahakali.

When Telangana was created on 2 June 2014 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, Hyderabad became its capital, and the Act further provided that the city would serve as the common capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for a period of not more than ten years.

The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 redrew the map of India mainly on the basis of language. The demand for linguistic states grew strong after independence.

The Ahoms are a community of Assam descended from the Tai people who founded the Ahom kingdom there.

Assam is called the land of the red river and blue hills, the red river being the silt-laden Brahmaputra and the blue hills those that ring its valley.

Telangana adopted the Indian roller, known in Telugu as palapitta, as its state bird soon after the state was formed in 2014.

The two western Union Territories were joined into a single Union Territory from 26 January 2020. Parliament passed the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act in December 2019, and the merger took effect on 26 January 2020.

Goa became the first State in India where every rural household had a functional tap water connection.

Telugu is the first official language of Telangana and Urdu is the second. The place of Urdu goes back to the Hyderabad state of the Nizams, where it was the language of administration and education, and a large Urdu speaking population still lives in Hyderabad and the surrounding districts.

Telangana was separated from Andhra Pradesh and came into existence on 2 June 2014 as the twenty-ninth state of India.

Maharashtra began its Jail Tourism scheme on 26 January 2021, Republic Day, at the Yerawada Central Jail in Pune, making it the first state in the country to open a working prison to visitors.

The Manikya dynasty ruled Tripura for centuries, and its kings all took the title Manikya. Their history is recorded in the Rajmala, a chronicle in Bengali verse first compiled in the fifteenth century under Dharma Manikya.

Khabar Lahriya was started in 2002 in the Chitrakoot region of Uttar Pradesh, which lies in the Bundelkhand belt.

The city stands on the Sarayu in eastern Uttar Pradesh and is one of the oldest towns named in Indian literature.

The Parliamentary Committee headed by Sardar Hukam Singh, then Speaker of the Lok Sabha, examined the demand for a Punjabi-speaking state and recommended the division of Punjab.

Monpa is spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, not in Jammu and Kashmir. The Monpa people live mainly in the Tawang and West Kameng districts of Arunachal Pradesh, and their language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group.

Parliament passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act in 2014, and the appointed day fixed under the Act was 2 June 2014, the date on which Telangana came into being as the twenty-ninth state.

Kolathunadu, Valluvanad and Thekkumkoor were small medieval kingdoms, or swaroopams, of Kerala.