Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 12

Raja Nahar Singh of Ballabgarh, in the present Faridabad district, sided with the rebels of Delhi, and after the city was retaken he was arrested, tried and hanged in January 1858 at Chandni Chowk in Delhi, his state being confiscated.

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.

He belonged to the Congress and was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of Haryana on 1 November 1966, the day the state came into being, heading a ministry formed from the Punjab legislators of the Haryana region.

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.

Letters recovered after the fall of Delhi showed that the two men of Hansi had written to the Mughal court in support of the revolt, and they were tried and hanged there in January 1858, their property confiscated.

On 21 April 1526 Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last sultan of the Lodi dynasty, using field guns handled by Ustad Ali Quli and Mustafa Rumi behind a line of carts and the tulughma method of flanking attack.

A senior civil servant, he took office as the first Governor of Haryana on 1 November 1966, the day the state was created, and swore in the first Chief Minister.

Shaikh Farid was the treasurer of Jahangir, and he founded Faridabad in 1607 to protect the imperial road from Delhi to Agra, building a fort, a tank and a mosque at the spot.

Chhotu Ram, born at Garhi Sampla in Rohtak district on 24 November 1881 and honoured as Deenbandhu, started the Urdu weekly Jat Gazette in 1916 to carry the case of the indebted peasant, and he used it for the rest of his career alongside his work in the Punjab legislature…

Haryana recorded 879 females for every 1,000 males in 2011. The number follows directly from the population table: 1,18,56,728 females against 1,34,94,734 males in a total of 2,53,51,462 people.

The new state began with Ambala, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jind, Karnal, Mahendragarh and Rohtak, spread over 44,212 square kilometres.

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…

Chhotu Ram helped found the Unionist Party of Punjab with Fazl-i-Husain, a party of landholders and peasants across community lines, and as a minister he carried measures for the indebted cultivator, among them the Punjab Relief of Indebtedness Act of 1934.

Ambala, and Ambala Cantt in particular, has a cluster of workshops making laboratory glassware and apparatus, surgical and dental instruments, weighing and measuring devices and household mixers, and it supplies schools, colleges and hospitals across the country.

He chaired the States Reorganisation Commission appointed in 1953, which reported in 1955 and turned down both the Punjabi Suba and a separate Hindi-speaking Haryana; the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 that followed merged PEPSU into Punjab instead.

The agreement signed in 1981 between Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan reallocated the surplus Ravi and Beas waters, and Haryana's share was fixed at roughly 3.5 million acre feet, to be carried by the proposed Sutlej Yamuna Link canal.

He began the weekly Haryana Tilak in 1923 to give the national movement in the Haryana districts a newspaper of its own, since the region's news was otherwise carried only in the Lahore papers.

Parliament set up this committee in 1965 on the demand for a Punjabi Suba under Sardar Hukam Singh, then Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

The large cantonment at Ambala, on the road from Delhi to the hills, reported restiveness among its sepoys in May 1857, and some accounts place signs of it even before the outbreak at Meerut on 10 May.

In 1966 the area now in Faridabad district formed part of Gurgaon district; Faridabad became a district of its own only in 1979, and Panchkula followed in 1995.