Rajasthan Mixed Quiz: Set 13

The integration of the Rajputana states took place in stages, and in the fourth stage the four large states of Jodhpur, Jaipur, Bikaner and Jaisalmer were merged with the earlier union to form Greater Rajasthan on 30 March 1949, with Jaipur as the capital.

Giri Sumel, near Jaitaran in the present Pali district, was fought in 1544 between the Afghan ruler Sher Shah Suri and Rao Maldeo of Marwar.

The Hawa Mahal, the screen of latticed windows on the eastern edge of the City Palace complex, was raised in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh so that the women of the household could watch processions in the street without being seen.

He decided that the cramped hill capital of Amer could not hold a growing state, and in 1727 he laid out Jaipur on level ground as a planned city of straight streets and rectangular blocks, with Vidyadhar Bhattacharya as its planner.

The Battle of Khanwa was fought on 17 March 1527 near Fatehpur Sikri, where Babur used his artillery and the tulughma flanking movement to break the Rajput confederacy led by Maharana Sanga.

The four clans named in the Agnikula account are the Pratihara or Parihar, the Chauhan or Chahamana, the Solanki or Chaulukya and the Parmar or Paramara.

The 15th Bengal Native Infantry stationed at Nasirabad in Ajmer district rose on 28 May 1857, burnt the cantonment and marched towards Delhi, which makes Nasirabad the first centre of the revolt anywhere in Rajputana.

Sangram Singh, known as Rana Sanga, had built the widest Rajput confederacy of his age and met Babur at Khanwa near Bharatpur in 1527.

The Rathore rulers of Jodhpur used the title Maharaja, the early ones being styled Rao, as in Rao Jodha and Rao Maldeo.

Banswara, in the Wagad region of southern Rajasthan, has the largest share of Scheduled Tribes in its population, the great majority of them Bhil, and the whole district lies in the Scheduled Areas notified under the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution.

Ganga Singh ruled Bikaner from 1887 to 1943 and is called the maker of modern Bikaner.

Bairath, also called Viratnagar, in Jaipur district is the chief Mauryan site of Rajasthan.

In 1562 Bharmal of the Kachhwaha house met Akbar at Sanganer, accepted Mughal overlordship and sealed it with a matrimonial alliance; the princess who went to the Mughal household is remembered as the mother of Jahangir.

Fluorite, also called fluorspar, is mined at Mando ki Pal in Dungarpur district in the far south of the state; the mineral is used as a flux in steel making and in the chemical industry.

Thakur Kushal Singh of Auwa met a combined British and Jodhpur force at Chelawas on 18 September 1857 and defeated it, and Monck Mason, the Political Agent posted at Jodhpur, was killed in that fighting.

Thewa is the craft of a single family line of Pratapgarh in southern Rajasthan, where a thin sheet of gold is cut into a pattern and fused on to coloured glass to make pendants, boxes and plates; the craft carries a geographical indication tag.

The khejri, botanically Prosopis cineraria and called the kalp vriksha of the desert because its pods, leaves and shade all serve desert households, is the state tree of Rajasthan.

On 30 March 1949 these four large states joined the existing union to create Greater Rajasthan, Jaipur was made the capital and Maharaja Man Singh II of Jaipur was appointed Rajpramukh.

Akbar laid siege to Chittorgarh in 1567 and took it in February 1568. Maharana Udai Singh II had withdrawn to the hills, leaving the fort to Jaimal of Merta and Patta of Kelwa, who died fighting; Akbar was impressed enough to set up their statues at the Agra fort gate.

The whole of Rajputana was supervised by a single Agent to the Governor-General, and in 1857 that post was held by Patrick Lawrence, who worked from Mount Abu and spent the year keeping the princely rulers on the British side.