Madhya Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 9

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.

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.

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

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.

Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar, an archaeologist from Ujjain, noticed the rocky outcrops from a train in 1957 and went on to explore and record the shelters and their paintings.

The Singrauli field lies in the Gondwana basin of the east of the state and extends across the border into Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh.

Bhoja, the Paramara king of Dhar in the first half of the eleventh century, is credited with a long list of works, of which the Samarangana Sutradhara on architecture and town planning and the Saraswatikanthabharana on poetics are the best known.

The Kadaknath is a black fleshed fowl reared by tribal families in Jhabua and the neighbouring districts of western Madhya Pradesh.

The Great Stupa, Stupa 1 at Sanchi, was raised in brick in the third century before Christ in the reign of Ashoka, who also set up a pillar at the site bearing the schism edict and crowned by a lion capital.

The Bhoj wetland is the pair of lakes at Bhopal, the Upper Lake built in the eleventh century in the time of Raja Bhoj and the Lower Lake beside it, and it was added to the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance in 2002, the first Ramsar site of…

The Chandelas of Jejakabhukti built the temples of Khajuraho between roughly the middle of the tenth and the middle of the eleventh century, in the Nagara style, with clustered spires rising over a shrine set on a high platform.

The Chambal flows north through soft alluvium towards the Yamuna, and the monsoon run-off cuts channels into it that deepen and widen every year into the badlands called bihad, which swallow farmland and once gave the region its reputation as a refuge for outlaws.

The four toranas that stand at the cardinal points of the Great Stupa were carved in the first century before Christ in the Satavahana period, and an inscription on one of them records the gift of ivory carvers of Vidisha.

The Baghelkhand plateau occupies the eastern part of the state, over Rewa, Satna, Sidhi, Shahdol and Anuppur.

The Kandariya Mahadeva is the largest and the most fully developed temple at Khajuraho, dedicated to Shiva and generally attributed to the reign of Vidyadhara in the first half of the eleventh century.

The Nimar plain is the lower part of the Narmada valley, around Khandwa, Khargone and Barwani, shut in by the Vindhyan scarp on the north and the Satpura on the south.

The relic caskets of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the two chief disciples of the Buddha, were found in Stupa 3 at Sanchi, which stands a short distance north-east of the Great Stupa and has a single gateway.

Prithviraj the Third of Ajmer and Delhi attacked the Chandela country in 1182 and defeated Paramardideva, also called Parmal, near Mahoba.

Ujjain stands on the Shipra, also written Kshipra, a tributary of the Chambal, and it is on the ghats of this river that the Simhastha, the Kumbh of Ujjain, is held every twelve years.

Sher Shah Suri died at Kalinjar in 1545 when a gunpowder explosion during the siege of the fort burned him fatally.