Madhya Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 20

The queen of Garha-Katanga, the Gond kingdom around present-day Jabalpur, she ruled as regent for her young son, defended her territory against Asaf Khan in 1564 and chose death over surrender when the battle turned.

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.

He became Chief Minister when the reorganised state of Madhya Pradesh came into being on 1 November 1956, having already headed the government of the earlier Central Provinces and Berar, and he died in office in December 1956, only weeks into the new state.

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.

Tansen was born at Behat near Gwalior, learnt music in that tradition, served at the court of Raja Ramchandra of Rewa before joining Akbar, and his tomb stands at Gwalior.

Gondi is the language of the Gond people, the largest tribal community of central India, spread over the Satpura and Mahakoshal belt of Madhya Pradesh and into the neighbouring states.

Article 159 requires the Governor, before entering upon his office, to make and subscribe an oath before the Chief Justice of the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the state, or in his absence before the senior-most judge of that court available.

Matki is danced by the women of Malwa and the adjoining Nimar at weddings and other family celebrations, with an earthen pot held on the head while the dancer turns to the beat of the dhol.

She administered the Holkar territory from Maheshwar in the second half of the eighteenth century, was known for a careful and just administration, and built ghats, wells and temples from the Narmada to the Ganga, including the rebuilding of the Kashi Vishwanath temple at Varanasi in 1780.

Bagh print takes its name from the village of Bagh in Dhar district, where the Khatri families print cotton and silk with hand cut wooden blocks and dye it in vegetable colours, chiefly alizarin from the madder root for red and indigo for blue.

Madhya Pradesh has a unicameral legislature: under Article 168 the legislature of the state consists of the Governor and a single House, the Vidhan Sabha.

Pithora is the ritual wall painting of the Bhil and Bhilala people of Jhabua, Alirajpur and Dhar in the west of the state.

When the state of Madhya Pradesh was formed on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act, he took office as its first Chief Minister, having earlier headed the government of the Central Provinces and Berar.

Bhoja, who ruled from Dhar in the eleventh century and is remembered as a scholar king, began the Bhojeshwar temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district on the Betwa.

It allowed the Governor of a state to nominate one member of the Anglo-Indian community to the Legislative Assembly if he was of opinion that the community needed representation and was not adequately represented in it.

The Nagdwari Mela is held at Pachmarhi in Narmadapuram district, inside the Satpura hills, at Nagpanchami in the month of Shravan.

He was born at Bhopal on 19 August 1918, headed the government of the former Bhopal state, later held Union office and the governorship of three states, served as Vice-President of India and was the ninth President of India from 1992 to 1997.

The Constitution (One Hundred and Fourth Amendment) Act of 2019 amended Article 334 so that the nomination of Anglo-Indian members to the Lok Sabha and to the State Legislative Assemblies came to an end on 25 January 2020, while extending the reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and the…

Born at Babai in the Narmadapuram district, Makhanlal Chaturvedi received the award in 1955 for his collection Him Taringini, the first time the Akademi honoured a work in Hindi.

The States Reorganisation Act came into force on that day and created Madhya Pradesh by merging the old Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal, with Bhopal as the capital of the new state.