Madhya Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 19

The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya was set up in 1977 and stands on the Shamla Hills at Bhopal, overlooking the Upper Lake.

Patangarh, the village of Jangarh Singh Shyam and of many Gond painters after him, lies in Dindori district in the eastern, forested part of the state, in the Gond country that also covers Mandla.

The Iqbal Samman is one of the national awards run by the culture department of Madhya Pradesh, and it honours creative and critical writing in Urdu.

Rewa was the capital of the Baghel Rajput house that gave the region its name, and the dialect shades into Awadhi towards Uttar Pradesh and into Chhattisgarhi towards the south east, which is exactly why Grierson classified it as Eastern Hindi.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born in the military cantonment of Mhow on 14 April 1891, and the town has since been renamed Dr Ambedkar Nagar.

Man Singh Tomar ruled Gwalior at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century and was the great patron of dhrupad, drawing singers to his court and encouraging composition in the spoken language rather than in Sanskrit alone.

The Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly returns 230 members from single-member territorial constituencies, of which thirty-five are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and forty-seven for the Scheduled Tribes.

Ahilyabai Holkar ruled Malwa from Maheshwar in the eighteenth century and is credited with establishing the weaving of the town, bringing in weavers and having borders designed from the carving of the local temples and fort.

The Pardhans are the bardic group within Gond society who sing the deeds of Bada Dev to the three stringed fiddle called the bana, and who receive a customary payment from the families they sing for.

It is the largest and most developed of the Khajuraho temples, built in the western group under the Chandela ruler Vidyadhara in the early eleventh century, and it shows the Nagara plan at its fullest, with a cluster of smaller shikharas rising like foothills to the main spire over the…

Jagnik was the bard of Mahoba who is credited with composing the ballad cycle on Alha and Udal, the two warrior brothers who served the Chandela ruler Parmal and fought Prithviraj Chauhan.

Maha Shivratri falls on the Chaturdashi of the dark half of Phalguna, in February or March. In Madhya Pradesh it is the largest single fair day of the year: it fills the Mahakaleshwar jyotirlinga at Ujjain, the Bhojeshwar temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district and the Shiva shrines of Pachmarhi.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born there on 25 December 1924, taught himself politics in the city's schools and colleges, served three terms as Prime Minister of India and was conferred the Bharat Ratna in 2015.

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.

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Act of 2003, says the total number of ministers including the Chief Minister in a state shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of its Legislative Assembly, and shall not be fewer than twelve.

The second Anglo-Maratha war went against the Maratha chiefs, and in 1803 Daulat Rao Scindia signed the Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon, giving up territory and accepting the Company's terms.

Bhajju Shyam, a nephew of Jangarh Singh Shyam and a painter of the Jangarh Kalam, was invited to London to paint a restaurant and recorded that journey in The London Jungle Book, in which the city is drawn through Gond imagery, the underground train as an earthworm and the double…

Lata Mangeshkar was born there on 28 September 1929, recorded in more than a dozen languages over a career of six decades and was conferred the Bharat Ratna in 2001, the same year as Ustad Bismillah Khan.

The Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2000 created Chhattisgarh on 1 November 2000, and ninety of the 320 constituencies of the undivided Madhya Pradesh Assembly fell within the new state and became its Legislative Assembly.

Azad was born at Bhabhra on 23 July 1906 in what was then the Jhabua area; after the district was reorganised the village falls in Alirajpur district.