Indian States & UTs Mixed Quiz: Set 37

Assam lies at the heart of the region and touches Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya and West Bengal, that is seven Indian states, besides the foreign neighbours Bhutan and Bangladesh.

The Mekhela Chador is a two-piece dress of Assamese women: the mekhela is the lower garment wrapped like a sarong and pleated at the front, and the chador is the upper cloth draped over the shoulder and tucked into the mekhela.

Pano Bhaju is the traditional attire of Hindu women of Goa, the pano being the draped cloth and the bhaju the blouse worn with it, usually completed with ornaments at the neck and the hair.

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.

Keibul Lamjao lies on the southern part of Loktak Lake near Imphal and floats on phumdis, the thick mats of soil and rotting plant matter that drift on the water.

The Seven Sisters are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura, the seven states that were carved out of the old Assam province and its Union Territories between 1963 and 1987.

Mundum Neriyathum is the oldest surviving form of dress of Keralite women: the mundu is the lower garment and the neriyathu the upper cloth, both usually in off-white cotton with a kara, the golden or coloured border.

The Nine Degree Channel runs between Minicoy, the southernmost island of Lakshadweep, and the main body of the group to its north, where Kalpeni lies.

Article 371A was inserted when Nagaland was created and protects Naga customary law and practice, land and resources, so that an Act of Parliament on these matters applies to the state only if its Assembly so decides, and it gives the Governor a special responsibility for law and order.

The Eighth Schedule began with fourteen languages in 1950, and three amendments took the list to twenty-two: Sindhi in 1967, Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali in 1992, and Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali by the Ninety-second Amendment passed in 2003.

The nauvari saree takes its name from the nine vars or yards of cloth it uses, and it is draped without a petticoat, the pleats passed between the legs in the kasta or sakachcha style that allows free movement.

A road inspector in the public works department, he began collecting discarded stones, broken crockery, bangles, tiles and electrical waste in the 1950s and built a secret garden of sculptures on land that was officially a forest buffer.

Tripura juts into Bangladesh, which wraps around its north, west and south, so the state is joined to India only along its eastern side, where it meets Assam and Mizoram.

The policy won Sikkim the Future Policy Gold Award given by the Food and Agriculture Organization in 2018. The same small Himalayan state holds two more firsts worth remembering: it banned plastic carry bags as early as 1998, and it was the first state declared free of open defecation.

The jainsem is the dress of Khasi women, made of several pieces of cloth fastened at the shoulders so that it falls in a loose cylinder, and the dhara is the length of cloth draped over it; Garo women of the same state wear the dakmanda, and Jaintia women the…

The principal seat of the Madhya Pradesh High Court is at Jabalpur, with benches at Gwalior and Indore, while the capital of the state is Bhopal.

Majuli lies in the Brahmaputra in Assam, upstream of Jorhat, and is the largest river island; it is also the seat of the Vaishnavite satras founded in the tradition of Srimanta Sankardeva, and it was made a district of Assam, the first island district of the country.

The puanchei is the festive wrap of Mizo women, woven in bands of black, red, white and green, and it is the dress worn for the Cheraw or bamboo dance and at the Chapchar Kut festival, usually with the kawrchei blouse.

The Hornbill festival is held at Kisama near Kohima and opens on 1 December, the day Nagaland became a state in 1963; it brings the major Naga tribes together and is called the festival of festivals, and the hornbill of its name is the bird that appears in Naga headgear…

The rignai is the lower wrap woven on a loin loom by the tribal women of Tripura, and the risa is the narrower cloth worn over the upper body, a girl receiving her first risa in the Risa Sormani ceremony; the rikutu is the larger wrap used as a shawl.