Of the five rivers that give the Punjab its name, which one does not flow through Indian Punjab?
- A.Sutlej
- B.Beas
- C.Ravi
- D.Chenab
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Explanation
The correct answer is D, Chenab. The name Punjab joins the Persian words panj, five, and ab, water, for the land watered by the Sutlej, the Beas, the Ravi, the Chenab and the Jhelum. Partition in 1947 divided the region along the Radcliffe Line and left the Chenab and the Jhelum in Pakistan, so the Chenab does not touch Indian Punjab at all; it flows through Jammu and Kashmir before crossing the border. The Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 confirmed the split by allotting the eastern rivers to India and the western rivers, including the Chenab, to Pakistan. Options A, B and C are wrong because the Sutlej, the Beas and the Ravi all flow through or along Indian Punjab and feed its canal system, the Sutlej past Ludhiana, the Beas past Kapurthala and the Ravi along the Pakistan border.
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Practice Questions
View allThe present state of Punjab was reorganised, and Haryana carved out of it, on which date?
- A.1 November 1956
- B.1 November 1966
- C.1 May 1960
- D.1 November 2000
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On that day the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 came into force: Haryana was created as a separate state, the hill districts such as Kangra, Kullu and Shimla were transferred to Himachal Pradesh, and Chandigarh was made a Union Territory to serve as the capital of both Punjab and Haryana.
Read the full explanation →Chandigarh is the shared capital of which two states?
- A.Punjab and Himachal Pradesh
- B.Punjab and Haryana
- C.Haryana and Rajasthan
- D.Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir
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Chandigarh was planned in the 1950s as the new capital of Punjab after Lahore went to Pakistan.
Read the full explanation →The Bhakra Dam, whose reservoir is the Gobind Sagar, is built on which river?
- A.Beas
- B.Ravi
- C.Sutlej
- D.Ghaggar
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Bhakra is a concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej in the Shivalik gorge at Bhakra, and the lake behind it is the Gobind Sagar.
Read the full explanation →The Harike wetland, a Ramsar site and the head works of the Indira Gandhi Canal, lies at the confluence of which two rivers?
- A.Ravi and Beas
- B.Beas and Sutlej
- C.Sutlej and Ghaggar
- D.Ravi and Chenab
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Harike, also called Hari ke Pattan, was formed by a barrage built where the Beas joins the Sutlej, and it is the largest wetland of northern India.
Read the full explanation →The city of Amritsar was founded by which Sikh Guru?
- A.Guru Angad Dev
- B.Guru Ram Das
- C.Guru Arjan Dev
- D.Guru Hargobind
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The correct answer is B, Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh Guru, who founded the settlement around the sacred tank that gave the city its name.
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