Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner is remembered for which of the following?
- A.Founding the city of Jaisalmer
- B.Building the Jantar Mantar at Jaipur
- C.The Gang Canal and signing the Treaty of Versailles
- D.Resisting Akbar from Siwana and Bhadrajun
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, the Gang Canal and signing the Treaty of Versailles. Ganga Singh ruled Bikaner from 1887 to 1943 and is called the maker of modern Bikaner. He brought Sutlej water into the desert through the canal opened in 1927 that bears his name, raised the Ganga Risala camel corps that served in imperial campaigns, represented India at the Imperial War Conference, signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and became the first chancellor of the Chamber of Princes.
Option A is wrong because Jaisalmer was founded by Rawal Jaisal in 1156. Option B is wrong because the Jantar Mantar was built by Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur. Option D is wrong because resistance to Akbar from Siwana and Bhadrajun was the work of Rao Chandrasen of Marwar in the sixteenth century, not of a twentieth-century ruler of Bikaner.
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Practice Questions
View allWho founded the city of Bikaner, and in which year?
- A.Rao Jodha, in 1459
- B.Rao Bika, in 1488
- C.Rao Maldeo, in 1532
- D.Rao Chandrasen, in 1562
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Rao Bika was a son of Rao Jodha of Marwar, and he moved north into the Jangladesh tract with his uncle Kandhal and carved out a new state there, naming his capital after himself in 1488.
Read the full explanation →Jaipur was founded in 1727 by which Kachhwaha ruler?
- A.Raja Bharmal
- B.Man Singh I
- C.Sawai Jai Singh II
- D.Sawai Pratap Singh
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He decided that the cramped hill capital of Amer could not hold a growing state, and in 1727 he laid out Jaipur on level ground as a planned city of straight streets and rectangular blocks, with Vidyadhar Bhattacharya as its planner.
Read the full explanation →Which ruler of Amer was the first Rajput ruler of Rajasthan to accept an alliance with Akbar in 1562?
- A.Raja Bharmal
- B.Rawal Jaisal
- C.Rao Ratan Singh
- D.Mirza Raja Jai Singh I
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In 1562 Bharmal of Amer, pressed by rivals and by imperial officers in the region, offered his submission to Akbar and sealed it with a marriage alliance; his daughter, known as Mariam-uz-Zamani, became the mother of Jahangir.
Read the full explanation →The Junagarh fort of Bikaner was built in 1589 by which ruler?
- A.Rao Bika
- B.Raja Rai Singh
- C.Maharaja Ganga Singh
- D.Rao Jodha
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Rai Singh of Bikaner was a leading general of Akbar, served in Gujarat and the Deccan, and used the wealth and prestige of that service to raise the Junagarh fort in 1589 on the plain beside his capital.
Read the full explanation →Jaisalmer was founded in 1156 by Rawal Jaisal, who belonged to which Rajput clan?
- A.Bhati
- B.Hada
- C.Naruka
- D.Deora
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The Bhati Rajputs held the western desert, first at Lodurva, and Rawal Jaisal shifted to the Trikuta hill in 1156 to found Jaisalmer, where his successors built the yellow sandstone Sonar Quila that is still inhabited.
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