Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 15

Barsana, remembered as Radha's village, holds the best known Lathmar Holi, in which the women of Barsana playfully beat back the men who come from Nandgaon with long sticks, and the play is repeated the next day at Nandgaon.

After attaining enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, the Buddha walked to the deer park at Sarnath, near Varanasi, and preached to the five companions who had earlier left him.

The Nauchandi Mela of Meerut is held on the ground that holds both the Nauchandi Devi temple and the dargah of Bale Miyan, and it begins on the Sunday after Holi.

Of the four Kumbh sites, Nashik and the neighbouring Trimbakeshwar stand on the Godavari, which rises at Trimbakeshwar itself; the Nashik Kumbh comes when both Jupiter and the Sun are in Leo.

Asaf-ud-Daula of Awadh had the Bara Imambara built at Lucknow in 1784 as a famine relief work, so that labourers could earn wages through a year of scarcity.

Article 3 allows Parliament by law to form a new state by separating territory from any state, by uniting two or more states or parts of them, and to increase or diminish the area of a state or alter its boundaries or name.

Dev Deepawali falls on the full moon of Kartik, fifteen days after Diwali, when lakhs of earthen lamps are lit on the steps of the Varanasi ghats and floated on the river; the Ganga Mahotsav of music and crafts closes on the same day.

A severe famine struck Awadh, and the Nawab set thousands to work on the Bara Imambara in 1784 so that wages reached the hungry, with the story that nobles worked at night to pull down part of the day's building and keep the work going.

Kushinagar, in the east of the state near Gorakhpur, was the capital of the Malla republic, and the Buddha died there under sal trees; the event is called mahaparinirvana.

After Hugh Rose took the fort of Jhansi in April 1858 the Rani escaped, joined Tatya Tope, and with him seized Gwalior from the Scindia's forces.

The Ramlila of Ramnagar, patronised by the Kashi Naresh, is staged across the town itself, with different localities standing for Ayodhya, Janakpur, Chitrakoot and Lanka, and it runs for about a month from Bhadrapada.

Jain tradition holds that Parshvanatha, the twenty third tirthankara and the immediate predecessor of Mahavira, was born at Varanasi as a prince of that city, and he is remembered as the teacher whose followers Mahavira's order absorbed.

Uttar Pradesh has three World Heritage Sites and all three are in Agra district: the Taj Mahal, built by Shah Jahan in white marble for Mumtaz Mahal; the Agra Fort, raised by Akbar in red sandstone on the Yamuna; and Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar's planned capital with the Buland Darwaza, the…

He was appointed governor of Awadh by the Mughal emperor in 1722 and, like the Nizam in the Deccan and the Nawab in Bengal, turned the post into a hereditary one as imperial authority weakened.

Dewa, in Barabanki district, holds the dargah of the Sufi saint Haji Waris Ali Shah, and its annual fair in Kartik draws a large crowd and a well-known mushaira, with Hindus and Muslims both taking part.

Malaviya, a Congress leader from Allahabad, founded the Banaras Hindu University in 1916 and served as its head for many years; the university remains the largest institution the national movement created in the province.

Bateshwar lies in Agra district on the Yamuna, where a long row of Shiva temples stands along the ghat; its Kartik Purnima fair is both a bathing fair and one of the biggest animal fairs of Uttar Pradesh, and the Jain tirtha of Shauripur is close by.

Commercial services on the north south corridor of the Lucknow Metro began in September 2017, making the state capital the first city of Uttar Pradesh with a metro of its own.

The Kajli or Kajliyan fair of Mahoba is held just after Raksha Bandhan and recalls the battle in which the Bundelkhand heroes Alha and Udal are said to have defended the town; the Alha ballads of the region are sung at it.

The census is taken under the Census Act of 1948, which gives the Union Government power to notify the exercise, appoint census officers and require every person to answer their questions, while making the answers confidential and not usable as evidence.