Madhya Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 7

Pithampur stands in Dhar district, about thirty kilometres south-west of Indore city, and its vehicle and auto component plants earned it the name Detroit of India.

By status of development resources are grouped as potential resources, found in a region but not yet used; developed resources, surveyed and in use; stock, which exists but cannot be used for want of technology; and reserves, the part of the stock that can be drawn on in future with…

The Bhil is the most numerous tribe of Madhya Pradesh and is concentrated in the western hills of Jhabua, Alirajpur, Dhar, Barwani, Khargone and Khandwa, with the Bhilala, Barela and Patelia counted among its groups.

This central belt, lying on the deep black soil of the Narmada valley and its Malwa fringe, grows the hard amber grained wheat known as Sharbati.

The plant stands at Govindpura in Bhopal and was set up in the 1950s as Heavy Electricals India Limited with British collaboration, before it became part of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.

The Bhimbetka rock shelters, with their prehistoric paintings, lie in the Raisen district within the limits of the Ratapani sanctuary, a teak forest of the Vindhyan range south of Bhopal that was later notified as a tiger reserve.

These western districts, with Dhar, Khargone and Khandwa, form the Bhil country of the state, a hilly tract where the tribe makes up a very large share of the people; Alirajpur and Jhabua have the highest proportion of tribal population in Madhya Pradesh and also its lowest literacy.

This is the only real alluvial tract of the state, it is the most fertile soil there and it grows wheat, mustard and gram.

Nepanagar in Burhanpur district was built as a township around the newsprint mill now run by Nepa Limited, and that mill was the first newsprint factory in India, started in the years around independence so that Indian newspapers would not depend wholly on imported paper.

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.

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

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

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.

The Baiga of Dindori, Mandla, Balaghat and Shahdol practised bewar, also called dahiya: a forest slope was cleared and burnt, seed was broadcast in the ash and the plot was abandoned after a crop or two.

Panna is the only place in India where diamonds are mined in any quantity.

Satna district has the thickest and purest limestone of the Vindhyan rocks, and a line of large cement plants works there and in neighbouring Maihar, which is why the district is called the cement capital of Madhya Pradesh.

Patalkot is a deep, almost hidden valley in Chhindwara district, sunk a few hundred metres below the surrounding plateau, and the Bharia live there as well as in parts of Jabalpur and Mandla.

Nagda in Ujjain district, on the Chambal, grew around the Grasim plant that makes viscose staple fibre, rayon grade pulp and caustic soda, and the township attached to it is called Birlagram.

Gondi, spoken by the Gonds of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Telangana, is a Dravidian language, which is striking because it is spoken deep in central India far from the south.