The Great Banyan, one of the widest trees in the world, stands in which garden?
- A.Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bengaluru
- B.Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah
- C.Government Botanical Garden, Ooty
- D.National Botanical Research Institute garden, Lucknow
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden at Howrah. The garden at Shibpur in Howrah, across the Hooghly from Kolkata, was founded in 1787 by Colonel Robert Kyd of the East India Company and renamed after Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose. Its Great Banyan has lost its main trunk and now survives as a crown of aerial roots covering several acres, which gives it one of the largest canopies of any tree. Option A, Lalbagh in Bengaluru, is known for its Glass House and the ancient Lalbagh rock, not for the banyan. Option C, the Ooty garden of 1848, is famous for its fossil tree trunk and the annual flower show. Option D, the Lucknow garden of the National Botanical Research Institute, is a research garden and is not linked with this tree.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich Mughal ruler laid out the Aram Bagh, also called Ram Bagh, at Agra, the oldest surviving Mughal garden in India?
- A.Akbar
- B.Babur
- C.Jahangir
- D.Shah Jahan
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Babur laid out the Aram Bagh at Agra in 1528, within two years of the first battle of Panipat, and it is the oldest Mughal garden that still survives in India.
Read the full explanation →Shalimar Bagh at Srinagar was built in 1619 by which Mughal emperor?
- A.Akbar
- B.Jahangir
- C.Shah Jahan
- D.Aurangzeb
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Jahangir built Shalimar Bagh above the Dal Lake in 1619 for his queen Nur Jahan, and it is the largest of the Mughal gardens of Kashmir, laid out in terraces with the Diwan-e-Aam, the Diwan-e-Khas and a zenana garden.
Read the full explanation →Nishat Bagh at Srinagar, the Garden of Gladness, was laid out by whom?
- A.Dara Shikoh
- B.Ali Mardan Khan
- C.Asaf Khan, the brother of Nur Jahan
- D.Fidai Khan
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Nishat Bagh was laid out about 1633 by Abul Hasan Asaf Khan, Nur Jahan's brother and the father of Mumtaz Mahal.
Read the full explanation →The Pinjore Garden, now known as the Yadavindra Gardens, is located in which state?
- A.Punjab
- B.Haryana
- C.Himachal Pradesh
- D.Uttarakhand
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The Pinjore garden lies at Pinjore in Panchkula district of Haryana, on the road from Chandigarh to Shimla, and is a seven terraced Mughal garden laid out by Fidai Khan, the foster brother of Aurangzeb.
Read the full explanation →Which monument is regarded as the first garden tomb built in the Indian subcontinent?
- A.Akbar's tomb at Sikandra
- B.Humayun's Tomb at Delhi
- C.The Taj Mahal at Agra
- D.The tomb of Sher Shah Suri at Sasaram
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Humayun's Tomb was begun in 1565 by his widow Bega Begum, also called Haji Begum, with the Persian architect Mirak Mirza Ghiyas, and it is the first tomb in the subcontinent set at the centre of a charbagh crossed by water channels.
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