Madhya Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 10

Avanti was one of the sixteen mahajanapadas of the sixth century before Christ, and it was divided into two parts: the north, ruled from Ujjayini or Ujjain, and the south, ruled from Mahishmati, which is identified with Maheshwar on the Narmada.

The Bhimbetka rock shelters lie in Raisen district, in the foothills of the Vindhyan range south of Bhopal, within the forest now protected as Ratapani.

Garha-Katanga, the Gond kingdom around Jabalpur and Mandla, was ruled by Rani Durgavati as regent for her young son Bir Narayan after the early death of her husband Dalpat Shah.

The Paramaras ruled Malwa from Dhar from about the ninth century until Alauddin Khalji's army took the country in 1305.

Malhar Rao was a cavalry commander in the service of Peshwa Baji Rao I during the Maratha conquest of Malwa, and in 1733 he was granted territory there, which became the Holkar state.

The Bank Note Press at Dewas prints currency notes and is a unit of the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India.

Rani Avantibai Lodhi governed Ramgarh, a small estate in the Mandla region of the Narmada valley, after the death of her husband.

These three communities of the state are classed as particularly vulnerable tribal groups, a category identified by pre-agricultural practices, very low literacy, small and stagnant or declining numbers and relative isolation.

The Mahakaleshwar temple at Ujjain is one of the twelve jyotirlingas, and it is singled out in every list because its lingam faces south, the only one of the twelve to do so; the bhasma aarti performed there before dawn is equally famous.

The Vindhyan limestone of Satna is thick, pure and close to the surface, so cement works clustered there and the district became the cement capital of the state, with Damoh, Katni, Jabalpur and Neemuch following.

Asaf Khan, a commander serving Akbar, invaded Garha-Katanga in 1564. Rani Durgavati met him in the field, and when she was wounded by arrows and saw the battle turning, she took her own life rather than be captured.

Balaghat lies in the wet south eastern corner of the state, where rainfall is high and red and yellow soils suit paddy, and the district has long grown Chinnor, a short grained aromatic rice valued for its fragrance after cooking.

Ahilyabai, the widow of Khande Rao Holkar, governed the state from 1767 to 1795 and made Maheshwar on the north bank of the Narmada her capital, building the fort palace, the ghats and the temples that still stand there.

Pench lies in Seoni and Chhindwara districts and continues across the state line into the Nagpur district of Maharashtra, so that each state manages its own Pench reserve on either side of the Pench river that gives the park its name; the forest is teak country and is often linked…

Shankar Shah was the head of the Gond royal line of Garha-Mandla, the house of Sangram Shah and Rani Durgavati, which had been reduced to a pension by the Company.

Laterite forms where heavy rain and warm temperatures wash the silica and bases out of the soil and leave iron and aluminium oxides behind, so it appears on the high rainfall plateau of eastern Madhya Pradesh, where rainfall crosses 1,400 millimetres.

The pillar stands at Besnagar beside Vidisha. It was set up in the second century before Christ by Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador sent by Antialcidas, the Indo-Greek king of Taxila, to the court of king Bhagabhadra.

Sangram Shah, also called Aman Das, was the Gond ruler of Garha-Katanga in the first half of the sixteenth century and is said in tradition to have brought fifty-two garhs, or forts, under his authority, which is why the kingdom is sometimes described as a kingdom of fifty-two forts.

The temple building and repair that Ahilyabai carried out from Maheshwar reached far beyond her own state, and the rebuilding of the Kashi Vishwanath temple at Varanasi in 1780 is the work most often asked.

After the loss of Gwalior in June 1858 Tatya Tope fought a guerrilla war for about ten months through Guna, Rajgarh, Jhalawar and the Chambal ravines, crossing and recrossing the Narmada to avoid British columns.