Rajasthan Mixed Quiz: Set 26

The Rajasthan Lokayukta and Up-Lokayuktas Act was passed in 1973, which places Rajasthan among the earliest states to set up the office after Maharashtra, and the Lokayukta inquires into allegations of corruption and abuse of office against ministers and other public servants, reporting to the Governor.

The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly has two hundred seats filled by direct election from territorial constituencies, and the figure matters for a second reason: the Council of Ministers may not exceed fifteen per cent of that strength, which gives a ceiling of thirty ministers including the Chief Minister.

Pearl millet needs little water and stands high temperature, which suits the sandy soils of western Rajasthan, and the state leads the country in its production; it is grown as a kharif crop in Barmer, Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Nagaur and Jodhpur and eaten as the staple bread of the region.

This committee, which reported in 1957 after studying the working of the Community Development Programme, held that rural development could not succeed without participation, and recommended democratic decentralisation through elected bodies at three levels, the village panchayat, the panchayat samiti at the block and the zila parishad at the district.

Keoladeo, a man-made wetland created by the rulers of Bharatpur and long known for the migratory birds that wintered there, was inscribed in 1985 and is the oldest World Heritage property of the state; it had already been recognised as a Ramsar wetland in 1981.

It is the speech of Jodhpur, Pali, Nagaur, Barmer and Jalore, that is of the largest region of the state, and the Dingal poetry of the Charan poets was composed in it; its speakers also carried it across India with the trading communities of Marwar.

Article 243E fixes a term of five years for every panchayat, requires the election to be completed before the term expires, and provides that where a panchayat is dissolved early the fresh body holds office only for the remainder of the original five year period, so dissolution cannot be used…

Gangaur is the worship of Gauri, that is Parvati, with Ishar, that is Shiva, and the name itself joins Gan for Shiva with Gaur for Gauri.

Mustard is the leading rabi oilseed of the state, grown with light irrigation in Bharatpur, Alwar, Sawai Madhopur, Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh, and Rajasthan has long been the largest producer in the country; the oilseed trade of Bharatpur and the many oil mills of the eastern districts rest on it.

Jambhoji, born at Pipasar in Nagaur district, laid down this code, among whose rules are the bans on cutting green trees and on killing animals, and the sect has its main seat at Mukam near Nokha in Bikaner district.

The serial property inscribed in 2013 covers exactly six forts: Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh in Rajsamand, Ranthambore in Sawai Madhopur, Amber near Jaipur, Jaisalmer, and Gagron in Jhalawar.

Lahariya takes its name from the word for a wave, and its diagonal stripes, produced by rolling the cloth and tying it before dyeing, are said to stand for the running water of the rains; safas and odhnis of this pattern are worn in Sawan and at the Teej festival…

Rampura Agucha is the state's best known lead and zinc deposit and one of the largest zinc producing mines in the world; Rajasthan is the only state in India that supplies lead and zinc concentrates, the other mines being Zawar near Udaipur, the oldest of them, and Rajpura Dariba.

The Bhils of Mewar perform Gavari for about forty days after Rakshabandhan in honour of the goddess, moving from village to village with fixed characters and episodes while the performers keep strict vows for the whole period, which makes it the longest and most elaborate folk performance of Rajasthan.

The Hawa Mahal, the screen of latticed windows on the edge of the city palace complex, was built in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh and designed by the architect Lal Chand Ustad, so that the women of the household could watch processions in the street without being seen.

The seventh stage, on 1 November 1956, brought the Abu Road tehsil from Bombay state into Rajasthan, together with Ajmer-Merwara and the Sunel Tappa area, and this is how Mount Abu became a part of Rajasthan.

The Khetri belt, with the nearby Kolihan mine, is the chief source of copper in Rajasthan and one of the main copper areas of India, worked by Hindustan Copper Limited; the ore is smelted and refined in the same region.

The Dilwara group of Jain temples stands at Mount Abu, the only hill station of Rajasthan, and is built in white marble; the Vimal Vasahi is dedicated to Adinath and the Luna Vasahi to Neminath, and the carved ceilings and pillars are the reason for its fame.

Makrana supplies the fine white marble used in the Taj Mahal and in the Victoria Memorial, and its quarries were recognised as a global heritage stone resource; marble is also cut at Kishangarh in Ajmer district, the largest marble market of the country.

The Vijay Stambh inside Chittorgarh Fort, the largest fort of India by area, was raised by Rana Kumbha of Mewar in the fifteenth century to mark his victory over Mahmud Khilji of Malwa.