Madhya Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 2

Chhattisgarh was created out of the eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 2000 under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000.

The Narmada is about 1,312 kilometres long in all, and roughly 1,077 kilometres of that course lies inside Madhya Pradesh, which makes it by a wide margin the longest river of the state.

The trough between the Vindhya and the Satpura sank along two roughly parallel faults, leaving the land on either side standing up as block mountains.

The Tropic of Cancer, 23 degrees 30 minutes north, crosses Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram, moving from west to east.

The tribunal was constituted in 1969 under the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act to settle the sharing of the Narmada, and it delivered its award in 1979, dividing the river's water among Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan and fixing the height and the rehabilitation terms of the Sardar Sarovar.

Dhupgarh rises to 1,350 metres at Pachmarhi, in Narmadapuram district, and is the highest point both of the Satpura range and of Madhya Pradesh.

The Malwa plateau, around Indore, Ujjain and Dewas, is built of basalt poured out as Deccan trap lava, and the weathering of that basalt has given it the deep black soil on which the state's cotton, wheat and soybean are grown.

The Tawa rises in the Satpura, drains the Pachmarhi and Betul country and joins the Narmada at Bandrabhan in Narmadapuram district; it is the largest of the Narmada's tributaries.

Khajuraho is in Chhatarpur district, which lies on the Bundelkhand Plateau, the tract of old granite and gneiss north of the Vindhya that takes in Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, Datia, Sagar and Damoh.

Madhya Pradesh covers 308,245 square kilometres, about 9.4 per cent of India, which makes it the second largest state after Rajasthan and the largest landlocked state of the country.

The Sardar Sarovar is the terminal dam of the Narmada valley scheme, in Gujarat, and its reservoir submerges villages upstream in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Amarkantak lies at the eastern end of the Satpura, where that range, the Maikal hills and the Vindhya come together, and three rivers begin there: the Narmada, which turns west along the rift valley, the Son, which runs east towards the Ganga, and the Johila, a tributary of the Son.

Madhya Pradesh has exactly five neighbours: Uttar Pradesh in the north, Chhattisgarh in the east, Maharashtra in the south, Gujarat in the west and Rajasthan in the north-west.

Bargi stands on the Narmada in Jabalpur district, in the upper part of the valley, and it was the first of the big dams of the Narmada valley scheme to be finished.

The Chachai falls lie in Rewa district, where the Bihad river plunges over the edge of the Vindhyan sandstone plateau.

Madhya Pradesh lies between these parallels and between 74 degrees 9 minutes east and 82 degrees 48 minutes east longitude.

At Bhedaghat, a short distance from Jabalpur, the Narmada falls over a ledge as the Dhuandhar, so called because the spray rises like smoke, and then runs for a few kilometres between white and pink marble cliffs, the Marble Rocks.

The Amarkantak plateau is a water divide: two large rivers rise on it and run in opposite directions.

The Tapti, or Tapi, begins at Multai in Betul district on the southern side of the Satpura and flows west through Maharashtra and Gujarat to the Gulf of Khambhat.

The Wainganga rises in the Seoni district of the Satpura and flows south through Balaghat into Maharashtra, where it joins the Wardha to form the Pranhita, a tributary of the Godavari.