Rajasthan Mixed Quiz: Set 29

The northernmost point of Rajasthan lies in Sri Ganganagar district, in the far north-west of the state where it meets Punjab and Pakistan.

The districts of Rajasthan are grouped into seven divisions, with headquarters at Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Kota, Bikaner, Bharatpur and Udaipur, and each is headed by a Divisional Commissioner.

Govind Guru led the Bhagat reform movement among the Bhils of the southern districts, and the gathering of his followers on Mangarh hill on 17 November 1913 was fired upon, an episode often described as a tribal counterpart of Jallianwala Bagh.

Pathik, whose original name was Bhoop Singh, took charge of the agitation of the peasants of Bijolia in the Mewar state against heavy levies and forced labour, and turned a local grievance into the longest-running peasant movement of Rajasthan.

At the Census of 2011 Jaisalmer recorded a density of about 17 persons per square kilometre, the lowest of any district in the state, because it is the largest district by area at 38,401 square kilometres and the thinnest in population at roughly 6.7 lakh.

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.

Bhatt, who belonged to Sirohi, followed the Gandhian programme of constructive work and led the movement in the princely states, and the state remembers him by this title.

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.

Kota recorded a literacy rate of 76.56 per cent at the Census of 2011, the highest of any district in Rajasthan, well above the state figure of about 66 per cent.

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Ninety-first Constitutional Amendment of 2003, provides that the total number of ministers including the Chief Minister shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total strength of the Legislative Assembly, and fifteen per cent of Rajasthan's two hundred seats is thirty.

When trees were ordered to be felled at Khejarli in the Jodhpur state in 1730, Amrita Devi and the Bishnois of the village clasped the trees and were killed, and the episode has become the standard Indian example of community conservation; the state's wildlife protection award carries her name.

The panchayat samiti is the middle or block level tier, and its elected members choose one of themselves as Pradhan, with an Up-Pradhan as deputy.

The Tropic of Cancer clips only the extreme southern tip of Rajasthan, crossing the districts of Banswara and Dungarpur, which is why almost the whole state lies in the sub-tropical zone.

Khyal is the chief folk drama of Rajasthan, a sung play performed through the night on an open stage, and its schools are named after their artists or their places; the Kuchamani Khyal of Kuchaman is the best known of them and is associated with Lachhiram.

He commanded the company that held the post at Rezang La in Ladakh during the war of 1962 and was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for that action.

The dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, the founder of the Chishti order in India, is at Ajmer, and the Urs held there in the Islamic month of Rajab is the largest Muslim gathering in Rajasthan, attended by pilgrims of many faiths.

Salumbar, one of the eight new districts retained after the review of December 2024, belongs to Udaipur division along with Udaipur, Banswara, Chittorgarh, Dungarpur, Pratapgarh and Rajsamand.

Rathore, an army officer born at Jaisalmer, won the silver medal in men's double trap shooting at the Athens Olympics of 2004, which was then India's best individual Olympic result.

The office of Divisional Commissioner was abolished in Rajasthan in 1962 on the view that it was a needless layer between the state government and the district, and it was restored in 1987, when the state was arranged in six divisions.

Detha, who lived and worked at Borunda, collected the folk tales of the region and retold them in Rajasthani in the many volumes of Bataan ri Phulwari, and several of those stories have been adapted for the stage and the screen.