Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 11

Kala Amb, on the edge of Panipat town, is the site where the Marathas and the Afghans fought on 14 January 1761.

Timur, the Turkish ruler of Samarkand, invaded India in 1398 during the reign of Nasiruddin Mahmud Tughlaq, came down the Yamuna route and sacked the Haryana towns of Tohana, Fatehabad, Sirsa, Kaithal and Hisar before taking and plundering Delhi.

The Satnamis were a sect of peasants and artisans of the Narnaul and Mewat country who rose in 1672 after a quarrel with a Mughal foot soldier grew into a general rising.

Ghori returned to Tarain a year after his defeat with a larger force of mounted archers, drew the heavy Rajput cavalry out of formation with a feigned retreat and destroyed it.

The ruler of Rewari in the Ahirwal country took charge of the administration there in 1857, raised troops, cast cannon at Rampura and sent help to the rebel government in Delhi.

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.

On that day the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 came into force and the Hindi-speaking districts of the old State of Punjab became the new State of Haryana, with seven districts and Chandigarh as a shared capital.

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.

The Arab general Muhammad bin Qasim invaded Sindh in 712 AD on behalf of the Umayyad governor of Iraq, defeated and killed Raja Dahir at Raor and annexed Sindh and Multan.

Jagadhri, now part of the Yamunanagar urban area, has an old industry of brass, bronze and other metal utensils, with rolling, beating and polishing done in workshops across the town, and its market supplies vessels to north India.

The town was laid out by its first Nawab, Faujdar Khan, in the time of the later Mughals and was named after the emperor Farrukhsiyar.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of the canal in 1982 at Kapoori in Patiala district, after the 1981 agreement between Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan on the sharing of the Ravi and Beas waters.

Nasibpur lies next to Narnaul in the south of present-day Haryana, and it was there that Rao Tula Ram's forces, with Rao Kishan Singh and contingents from the rebel side, met the British column.

Vita is the brand under which it sells milk, ghee, butter, paneer, curd and sweets, and the milk behind the brand is gathered on the three tier Anand pattern: village societies collect it, district unions pool it and the federation processes and markets it through plants at Jind, Rohtak, Ambala…

Parliament passed it as Act No. 31 of 1966 after the Shah Commission reported, and it created Haryana, made Chandigarh a Union Territory and joint capital, transferred the hill areas to Himachal Pradesh, kept a common High Court for both states and set up a board for the Bhakra-Nangal and…

This is the drier half of Haryana, where rainfall is low, summers are hot and the soil is light, and cotton suits those conditions better than paddy does.

The Company and then the Crown treated the region as a punished territory after 1857: the chiefs who had joined the revolt were hanged or exiled and their estates confiscated, and in 1858 the Haryana districts were transferred from the North-Western Provinces to the province of Punjab, to be administered…

After the defeat at Nasibpur, Rao Tula Ram left India to seek foreign help against the British, travelling through Iran and Central Asia, and he died at Kabul on 23 September 1863 while still trying to build an alliance.

It was appointed on 23 April 1966 under Justice J. C. Shah of the Supreme Court, took the tehsil as its unit and the language returns of the 1961 census as its test, and submitted its report on 31 May 1966, after which the Punjab Reorganisation Act was passed.

In 1858 the government took the Delhi territory out of the North-Western Provinces and attached it to Punjab, partly as a punishment for the region's part in the revolt and partly because Punjab's administration had stayed loyal and effective.