Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 13

Lajpat Rai started his legal practice at Hisar in 1886, took part in the municipal and Arya Samaj work of the town and in early Congress organisation there, and only later moved to Lahore, from where he became a national figure.

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…

The city is administered by the Governor of Punjab as its Administrator, and the Punjab and Haryana High Court sits there, serving both states and the Union Territory.

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.

Rakhigarhi lies in Hisar district, where its mounds spread across more than one village and cover a larger area than any other Harappan site in India.

Akbar was only about thirteen when Humayun died, and the campaign against Hemu was conducted by his guardian and regent Bairam Khan, who insisted on marching to Panipat rather than retreating to Kabul.

The fair is held at Surajkund in Faridabad district, close to the Delhi border, where the amphitheatre-shaped reservoir attributed to the Tomar king Surajpal gives the place its name and its setting.

After Guru Gobind Singh's death Banda Singh Bahadur led the Sikh rising of 1709 and 1710, took Samana and Sadhaura and fortified Lohgarh in the Sivalik hills of what is now Yamunanagar district, making it his capital and striking coins and a seal in the name of the Gurus.

The Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 added the hill districts of the old Punjab, among them Shimla, Kangra, Kullu and Lahaul and Spiti, along with parts of adjoining districts, to Himachal Pradesh, which was then a Union Territory and became a full state in 1971.

Density is the population divided by the area, and for Haryana that is 2,53,51,462 people spread over 44,212 square kilometres, which works out to 573.

He founded the town in 1354 and called it Hisar-e-Firoza, the fort of Firoz, and built a palace complex there that still holds the Gujari Mahal and the Lat ki Masjid, a mosque that reuses an older pillar shaft.

Rakhigarhi lies in Hisar district and covers the land of two villages, Rakhi Khas and Rakhi Shahpur, on a dried channel of the Drishadvati, today called the Chautang.

The Surajkund mela was started in 1987 as a crafts fair of the state, and it has been held every February since, bringing craftspeople and folk performers from across the country to the grounds at Surajkund.

Bahadurgarh stands on the Delhi border on the Rohtak road and holds a large number of footwear units along with ceramic, tile and sanitaryware factories, besides engineering and packaging works.

Because the dams and canals served more than one successor state, the Act apportioned rights in the Bhakra-Nangal and Beas projects and created a board to administer and operate them.

A sprinkler breaks water into drops and spreads it like rain, so the field does not have to be levelled and no flowing sheet of water is needed.

The tomb stands on a mound at Thanesar, built in marble and sandstone with a tall Persian dome in a walled garden, and the resemblance to a small Mughal mausoleum has earned it the name Taj Mahal of Haryana.

The fair runs for a fortnight every February, which is also the reason it is counted with the Taj Mahotsav at Agra and the Khajuraho Dance Festival as the February events of north and central India.

Babur had the Kabuli Bagh mosque raised at Panipat to mark his victory over Ibrahim Lodi in the first battle of Panipat in 1526, and tradition says it was named after his queen Mussammat Kabuli Begum.

Gita Jayanti falls on the Ekadashi of the bright half of Margashirsha, the day called Mokshada Ekadashi, which is held to be the day the Bhagavad Gita was spoken at Kurukshetra; the state keeps it as the International Gita Mahotsav.