Rajasthan Mixed Quiz: Set 2

The Great Boundary Fault runs along the Chambal valley in south-eastern Rajasthan and separates the Vindhyan rocks of the Hadoti plateau from the much older Aravalli system to its west.

It rises at Janapav hill near Mhow in the Vindhyan range of Madhya Pradesh, enters Rajasthan in Chittorgarh district and flows past Kota, Bundi, Sawai Madhopur, Karauli and Dholpur to join the Yamuna, and because it is fed by the heavier rainfall of the Malwa plateau it carries water through…

The Bhorat plateau is the high, flat tract of the southern Aravalli lying between Gogunda in Udaipur district and Kumbhalgarh in Rajsamand, with an average height above twelve hundred metres.

The Tropic of Cancer lies at 23 degrees 30 minutes north and crosses eight Indian states: Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.

The lake spreads over the districts of Jaipur, Nagaur and Ajmer, is fed by the Mendha, Rupangarh, Khari and Khandel streams, has been worked for salt for centuries and was declared a Ramsar site in 1990, drawing flamingos in winter.

Guru Shikhar stands on Mount Abu in Sirohi district and, at 1,722 metres, is the highest point of the Aravalli Range and of Rajasthan.

Sambhar is the largest saline lake of Rajasthan and of India, lying in the inland drainage tract on the eastern edge of the desert, where the Mendha and the Rupangarh end their course.

The Banas runs about 480 kilometres north-east across the state and joins the Chambal at Rameshwar Ghat in Sawai Madhopur, gathering the Berach, Kothari, Khari, Dai, Morel and Kalisil on the way, and its name means the hope of the forest.

The Aravalli trends from south-west to north-east, which is roughly the direction in which the Arabian Sea branch of the monsoon travels.

Rajasthan covers 342,239 square kilometres, about 10.4 per cent of the area of India, and it has been the largest state of the country since Madhya Pradesh was divided and Chhattisgarh created in November 2000.

The correct answer is A, Maharana Jai Singh of Mewar, who dammed the Gomti river in the late seventeenth century to make the lake in Udaipur district; it is the largest artificial freshwater lake of Rajasthan and is surrounded by the Jaisamand wildlife sanctuary, with marble pavilions and the Hawa…

The Aravalli was folded in Precambrian times, long before the Himalaya existed, and hundreds of millions of years of erosion have worn it down to a chain of residual hills whose rocks carry zinc, lead, copper and marble.

The south-eastern plateau of Rajasthan has two parts: the Vindhyan scarpland of sandstone and the Deccan lava plateau, which is the Malwa plateau of basalt continuing into Rajasthan.

The Luni begins in the Naga hills near Ajmer and is called the Sagarmati in its first stretch; after the Sarsuti joins it near Govindgarh the combined stream is called the Luni, and it finally spreads into the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat.

Mount Abu, in Sirohi district, is the only hill station of Rajasthan.

Rajasthan lies between these parallels and between 69 degrees 30 minutes east and 78 degrees 17 minutes east longitude, which places the whole state in the north-western, sub-tropical part of India, with only its southern tip in Banswara touching the Tropic of Cancer.

Nakki lake lies at Mount Abu, the only hill station of Rajasthan, in Sirohi district, and the local story that it was dug out with nails gives it its name; Toad Rock stands on its edge and the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi were immersed in it.

The Aravalli runs diagonally from the south-west to the north-east and splits Rajasthan into two unequal parts: roughly three-fifths of the state lies west of the range, in the sandy plain and the Thar, and about two-fifths lies to its east, in the plains and the plateau.

Keoladeo Ghana National Park at Bharatpur, once the duck shooting reserve of the Bharatpur rulers, was listed in 1981 and is also a World Heritage Site famous for its winter migratory birds; the Sambhar salt lake was listed in 1990 and attracts flamingos.

The Luni is the main river of western Rajasthan. It rises in the Naga hills near Ajmer, runs about 495 kilometres to the south-west through the Godwar belt and empties into the Rann of Kutch.