Rajasthan Quiz: Famous Personalities of Rajasthan

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.

Jambheshwar, known as Jambhoji and born at Pipasar in 1451, founded the Bishnoi sect in 1485 and laid down the twenty-nine rules from which the sect takes its name, several of them forbidding the felling of green trees and the killing of animals.

He took office on 7 April 1949, when the united state of Rajasthan was formed out of the princely states of Rajputana, and so heads the list of the state's Chief Ministers.

Barhath composed the thirteen sorthas known as Chetawani ra Chungatya to persuade Maharana Fateh Singh of Mewar to stay away from the Delhi Durbar of 1903, and the verses are treated as a landmark of patriotic Rajasthani writing.

Shekhawat, who had served as Chief Minister of Rajasthan, was elected Vice-President of India and held the office from 2002 to 2007, which makes him the best-known holder of a national constitutional post from the state.

Kumbha of Mewar built the hill fort of Kumbhalgarh and raised the Vijay Stambh, the tower of victory, at Chittorgarh after his victory over Mahmud Khilji; he was also a scholar and wrote the Sangeet Raj.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.