Indian States & UTs Quiz: Punjab GK

On that day the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 came into force: Haryana was created as a separate state, the hill districts such as Kangra, Kullu and Shimla were transferred to Himachal Pradesh, and Chandigarh was made a Union Territory to serve as the capital of both Punjab and Haryana.

Chandigarh was planned in the 1950s as the new capital of Punjab after Lahore went to Pakistan.

The name Punjab joins the Persian words panj, five, and ab, water, for the land watered by the Sutlej, the Beas, the Ravi, the Chenab and the Jhelum.

Bhakra is a concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej in the Shivalik gorge at Bhakra, and the lake behind it is the Gobind Sagar.

Harike, also called Hari ke Pattan, was formed by a barrage built where the Beas joins the Sutlej, and it is the largest wetland of northern India.

The correct answer is B, Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh Guru, who founded the settlement around the sacred tank that gave the city its name.

It was Baisakhi day, and a crowd had gathered in the walled Jallianwala Bagh at Amritsar to protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of local leaders.

Punjab was annexed by Lord Dalhousie at the close of the Second Anglo Sikh War, after the battles of Chillianwala and Gujrat, and the young Maharaja Dalip Singh was pensioned off.

On Baisakhi in 1699 Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru, initiated the Panj Piare there and founded the Khalsa, giving it the five articles of faith.

Giddha, also spelt Gidda, is the women's folk dance of Punjab, danced in a ring to the clapping of hands and to boliyan, short verses sung by the dancers themselves.

The Punjab Vidhan Sabha is a single chamber house of 117 elected members, the strength fixed for the state after the reorganisation of 1966 and the delimitation that followed; Punjab has no Legislative Council.

Ropar, the modern Rupnagar on the left bank of the Sutlej, was the first Harappan site excavated after Independence, and its trenches showed a sequence of occupation from the Harappan period through Painted Grey Ware to later historical levels.