Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 9

Faridabad was the most populous district of Haryana in 2011 and also the district with the highest density of population.

The Jhelum is called Vitasta in the Rigveda, and it is one of the seven rivers of the Sapta Sindhu, the land in which the hymns were composed.

Banawali in Fatehabad district, excavated by R. S. Bisht, gave a terracotta model of a plough, which is one of the clearest pieces of evidence for ploughed fields in the Harappan world; the other famous evidence is the ploughed field surface found at Kalibangan in Rajasthan.

The Census of 2011 recorded 879 females for every 1,000 males in Haryana, the lowest figure of any state in the country, against a national average of 943.

Prithviraj Chauhan III, the Chahamana ruler of Ajmer and Delhi, met Muhammad Ghori at Tarain, the modern Taraori in Karnal district of Haryana, in 1191.

Panipat weaves durries, carpets, blankets and furnishing fabrics for the home and export markets, and it is also the largest centre in India for pulling old woollen clothing into fibre and spinning it again into yarn, a trade for which the city is known across the world.

He founded Hisar-e-Firoza in 1354, built its fort and palace complex with the Gujari Mahal inside, and brought canals from the Yamuna to water the town, a line the British later rebuilt as the Western Yamuna Canal.

The Delhi sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq had a canal cut from the Yamuna in the fourteenth century to carry water westwards towards Hisar, where he founded Hisar Firoza, and that channel is the ancestor of today's Western Yamuna Canal.

Mewat recorded 907 females for every 1,000 males in 2011, the highest of any district in Haryana, even though the same district had the lowest literacy rate in the state.

The buffalo research institute was set up at Hisar because the town sits in the Murrah tract and already had the agricultural university and a very large government livestock farm, so breeding stock and expertise were at hand.

The Manusmriti describes Brahmavarta as the holy land created by the gods between the Saraswati and the Drishadvati, and that strip of country is the plain of present-day Haryana.

The Murrah is a jet black buffalo with short tightly curled horns, bred in Rohtak, Jind, Hisar and the neighbouring districts.

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 commission headed by Justice J. C. Shah was appointed in 1966 to work out the division of Punjab, and on its recommendation the Hindi-speaking districts were formed into Haryana, the hill districts went to Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh became a union territory.

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 Western Yamuna Canal draws its supply from the Hathnikund barrage in Yamunanagar district and carries Yamuna water across Karnal, Panipat, Rohtak, Jind and Hisar, making it the backbone of irrigation in northern and central Haryana.

Census appears as entry 69 of the Union List in the Seventh Schedule, so only Parliament can legislate on it, and the operation is carried out for the whole country under one law, the Census Act of 1948.

Jyotisar, a short distance from the town of Kurukshetra, is held by tradition to be the spot where Krishna spoke the Gita to Arjuna before the Mahabharata war, and an old banyan tree there is shown as a witness to it.

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.

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.