Indian States & UTs Mixed Quiz: Set 38

Assam is called the land of the red river and blue hills, the red river being the silt-laden Brahmaputra and the blue hills those that ring its valley.

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.

The Sixth Schedule, read with Article 244, lets the tribal areas of these four states run Autonomous District Councils with their own powers over land, forests, village administration, inheritance and customary law, such as the Bodoland Territorial Council in Assam and the Khasi Hills council in Meghalaya.

The phanek is the wrap-around lower garment of Manipuri women, woven in horizontal stripes, and the innaphi is the light shawl worn over it.

The Mysore peta is the turban of the Mysore court, worn by the Wadiyar rulers and now presented as a mark of honour to distinguished guests in Karnataka; the everyday dress of men in the state is the panche or lungi with a shirt, and women wear the Ilkal saree…

Both had been Union Territories since 1972, Arunachal Pradesh after the North East Frontier Agency was renamed and Mizoram after the Mizo hills were separated from Assam, and both were raised to statehood on the same day in February 1987.

It allows Parliament by law to form a new state, increase or diminish the area of any state, alter its boundaries and change its name, by a simple majority; the Bill needs the President's recommendation, and the President must refer it to the legislature of the state affected for its…

Minicoy, the southernmost island of Lakshadweep, stands apart in language and culture from the rest of the territory.

The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act was passed in 2019 but was brought into force on Republic Day 2020, merging the two small Union Territories into one with its capital at Daman.

The correct answer is C, the Ninety-second Amendment, passed in 2003, which took the Eighth Schedule from eighteen languages to twenty-two by adding Bodo of Assam, Dogri of the Jammu region, Maithili of Bihar and Santhali, the language of the Santhal people spread over Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha.

The commission under former Chief Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan was appointed in 1966 after Maharashtra pressed its claim to Belagavi, Nippani and Karwar, areas with large Marathi-speaking populations placed in Mysore State by the reorganisation of 1956.

Chandi Mandir, a temple of the goddess Chandi, a form of Durga, stands near the city in what is now the Panchkula district of Haryana.

The correct answer is C, Daman, which was made the capital of the merged Union Territory in 2020.

The jail was built at Port Blair over those ten years in the shape of a wheel, with seven wings radiating from a central watchtower and a total of 693 cells.

Belagavi, earlier written Belgaum, lies in Karnataka but has a large Marathi-speaking population, and Maharashtra has claimed it along with Nippani and the Karwar area since the reorganisation of 1956; Karnataka has answered by building a second legislature complex there, the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha, and by holding a winter session…

Arikamedu stands on the bank of the Ariyankuppam river a few kilometres south of the territorial capital. Excavations there have produced Roman amphorae, glassware, rouletted ware and beads, and the site is generally identified with the port of Poduke listed in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.

The correct answer is B, three: Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu.

Original jurisdiction means the case begins in the Supreme Court itself, and Article 131 covers disputes between the Government of India and one or more states and between two or more states, which is the route by which land boundary suits such as the Belagavi and Kotia matters reach the…

The correct answer is A, the Tenth Amendment of 1961, which inserted Dadra and Nagar Haveli into the Constitution as a Union Territory; the area had been freed from Portuguese rule by volunteers in 1954 and administered separately until then.

It allows Parliament to provide by law for the adjudication of disputes about the use, distribution or control of the waters of inter-state rivers and river valleys, and to bar the jurisdiction of the courts in such matters; Parliament did both through the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act of 1956…