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Q.51
Godna, a traditional art closely associated with Baiga women, is a form of which practice?
- A Tattooing the body
- B Painting on cloth scrolls
- C Making clay figurines
- D Weaving bamboo baskets
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Correct answer: (A) Tattooing the body
Godna is the tattoo art in which Baiga women traditionally carry patterns on the forehead, arms and legs as marks of identity and beauty. Scroll painting is a different tradition altogether.
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Q.52
By what affectionate name do the tribal people of Nimar and Malwa remember the Bhil rebel Tantya Bhil?
- A Tantya Mama
- B Tantya Dada
- C Bhil Baba
- D Nimar Kesari
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Correct answer: (A) Tantya Mama
Tantya Bhil, who took from the rich to help the poor, is revered as Tantya Mama; a shrine to him stands at Patalpani near Mhow.
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Q.53
Which of the following monuments is correctly matched with its builder?
- A Bhojeshwar temple, Bhojpur – Udayaditya
- B Man Mandir, Gwalior – Man Singh Tomar
- C Great Stupa, Sanchi – Kanishka
- D Jahaz Mahal, Mandu – Hoshang Shah
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Correct answer: (B) Man Mandir, Gwalior – Man Singh Tomar
Raja Man Singh Tomar (1486-1516) built the Man Mandir palace with its coloured tile work. The Bhojeshwar temple is ascribed to Raja Bhoj, the Sanchi stupa to Ashoka and the Jahaz Mahal to Ghiyasuddin Khalji.
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Q.54
Rani Durgavati was married to which Gond ruler, the son of Sangram Shah?
- A Vir Narayan
- B Hriday Shah
- C Shankar Shah
- D Dalpat Shah
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Correct answer: (D) Dalpat Shah
Durgavati married Dalpat Shah of Garha-Mandla, and after his early death she governed for their young son Vir Narayan. Shankar Shah was the Gond king executed by the British in 1857.
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Q.55
The Jantar Mantar observatory (Vedh Shala) at Ujjain was built in the 18th century by which ruler?
- A Mahadji Scindia
- B Sawai Jai Singh II
- C Malhar Rao Holkar
- D Raja Bhoj
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Correct answer: (B) Sawai Jai Singh II
Sawai Jai Singh II of Amber, who also served the Mughals as governor of Malwa, built observatories at Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Mathura and Varanasi; Ujjain was chosen for its place on the traditional prime meridian.
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Q.56
Sant Singaji, the sixteenth-century saint-poet after whom a thermal power project of Madhya Pradesh is named, belongs to which region?
- A Bundelkhand
- B Nimar
- C Baghelkhand
- D Gird (Gwalior region)
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Correct answer: (B) Nimar
Singaji was a saint of Nimar whose bhajans are sung in Nimadi, and the Shri Singaji thermal power project in Khandwa district is named after him. Isuri is the folk poet associated with Bundelkhand.
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Q.57
The Malvi dialect is spoken mainly in which part of Madhya Pradesh?
- A Indore, Ujjain and Ratlam area
- B Sagar, Chhatarpur and Tikamgarh area
- C Khargone, Khandwa and Barwani area
- D Rewa, Satna and Sidhi area
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Correct answer: (A) Indore, Ujjain and Ratlam area
Malvi is the speech of the Malwa plateau around Indore, Ujjain, Dewas and Ratlam. The Sagar-Chhatarpur belt speaks Bundeli.
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Q.58
Rana Kumbha built the Vijay Stambh at Chittorgarh to celebrate his victory over which Sultan of Malwa?
- A Mahmud Khalji I
- B Hoshang Shah
- C Ghiyasuddin Khalji
- D Baz Bahadur
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Correct answer: (A) Mahmud Khalji I
Kumbha raised the Vijay Stambh after defeating Mahmud Khalji I, founder of the Khalji line of Malwa; Mahmud in turn claimed victory and built a victory tower of his own at Mandu.
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Q.59
The unfinished Bhojeshwar Shiva temple at Bhojpur, near Bhopal, stands on the bank of which river?
- A Narmada
- B Chambal
- C Betwa
- D Ken
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Correct answer: (C) Betwa
Bhojpur, in Raisen district, overlooks the Betwa river; the temple's huge lingam and the remains of an earthen ramp for lifting stones show that work stopped midway.
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Q.60
Gondi, the language of the Gond tribe, belongs to which language family?
- A Indo-Aryan
- B Austroasiatic
- C Tibeto-Burman
- D Dravidian
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Correct answer: (D) Dravidian
Gondi is a Dravidian language of the south-central branch, related to Telugu, even though most of its speakers live in central India. Bhili, by contrast, is an Indo-Aryan language.
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Q.61
Lokrang, the festival of folk and tribal arts organised by the state culture department in Bhopal, begins every year on which date?
- A 1 November
- B 15 August
- C 2 October
- D 26 January
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Correct answer: (D) 26 January
Lokrang opens on Republic Day, 26 January, and runs for several days of folk and tribal performances. 1 November is Madhya Pradesh's foundation day.
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Q.62
The Treaty of Salbai (1782), which ended the First Anglo-Maratha War, was negotiated on the Maratha side by which chief of Gwalior?
- A Tukoji Rao Holkar I
- B Mahadji Scindia
- C Daulat Rao Scindia
- D Ranoji Scindia
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Correct answer: (B) Mahadji Scindia
Mahadji Scindia mediated the Treaty of Salbai between the East India Company and the Peshwa's government; he dominated north Indian politics until his death in 1794.
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Q.63
Madhya Pradesh shares its boundary with how many Indian states?
- A 4
- B 5
- C 6
- D 7
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Correct answer: (B) 5
Madhya Pradesh borders five states: Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. It has no coastline and no international border.
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Q.64
In Madhya Pradesh, soybean and gram are grown in which seasons respectively?
- A Kharif; rabi
- B Rabi; kharif
- C Kharif; kharif
- D Rabi; rabi
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Correct answer: (A) Kharif; rabi
Soybean is sown with the monsoon in June-July and harvested in autumn, making it a kharif crop. Gram (chickpea) is sown after the monsoon on stored soil moisture and harvested in spring, a rabi crop like wheat.
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Q.65
Which fish has been declared the state fish of Madhya Pradesh?
- A Rohu
- B Mahseer
- C Hilsa
- D Catla
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Correct answer: (B) Mahseer
Madhya Pradesh named the mahseer, a large game fish of rivers such as the Narmada, as its state fish in 2011. Hilsa is the state fish of West Bengal.
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Q.66
The Ghughua Fossil National Park, which preserves fossils of ancient plants, is in which district?
- A Dindori
- B Shahdol
- C Dhar
- D Betul
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Correct answer: (A) Dindori
Ghughua, officially the Mandla Plant Fossils National Park, is in Dindori district (carved out of Mandla) and preserves fossil trees, leaves and fruits millions of years old.
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Q.67
How many Lok Sabha seats did undivided Madhya Pradesh have before 2000?
- A 48
- B 42
- C 40
- D 36
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Correct answer: (C) 40
Undivided Madhya Pradesh elected 40 members to the Lok Sabha; after 2000, 11 seats went to Chhattisgarh and 29 stayed with Madhya Pradesh.
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Q.68
Most of the forest area of Madhya Pradesh belongs to which forest type?
- A Tropical moist deciduous
- B Tropical thorn
- C Tropical dry deciduous
- D Tropical semi-evergreen
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Correct answer: (C) Tropical dry deciduous
The bulk of the state's forests are tropical dry deciduous, with teak and mixed species shedding their leaves in the dry season. Moist deciduous sal forests occur in the wetter east and thorn forests in the drier north-west.
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Q.69
Rajwada, the multi-storeyed historic palace in the heart of Indore, was the seat of which ruling family?
- A Scindia
- B Pawar
- C Holkar
- D Bundela
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Correct answer: (C) Holkar
Rajwada was built by the Holkars, who ruled Indore, and it still stands at the centre of the old city. The Scindias ruled from Gwalior and the Pawars from Dhar and Dewas.
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Q.70
The Madhya Pradesh portion of the pilgrim town Chitrakoot, associated with Rama's exile, lies in which district?
- A Rewa
- B Panna
- C Satna
- D Chhatarpur
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Correct answer: (C) Satna
Chitrakoot straddles the Uttar Pradesh border; Kamadgiri and the Mandakini ghats on the Madhya Pradesh side are in Satna district.
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Q.71
Before the present Vidhan Bhavan was built, the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha met in which historic building in Bhopal?
- A Gauhar Mahal
- B Minto Hall
- C Sadar Manzil
- D Shaukat Mahal
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Correct answer: (B) Minto Hall
Minto Hall, named after the Viceroy Lord Minto, housed the state assembly from 1956 until the move to the new Vidhan Bhavan in the 1990s. Gauhar Mahal was built by Qudsia Begum. In November 2021 the state government announced that Minto Hall would be renamed after Kushabhau Thakre.
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Q.72
Who was the founder of the Scindia dynasty of Gwalior?
- A Mahadji Scindia
- B Daulat Rao Scindia
- C Ranoji Scindia
- D Jiwajirao Scindia
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Correct answer: (C) Ranoji Scindia
Ranoji Scindia, a commander under Peshwa Bajirao I, founded the dynasty in the 1730s; Mahadji later made Gwalior the great Maratha power of the north.
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Q.73
The Raneh falls near Khajuraho, with a canyon of coloured crystalline granite, are on which river?
- A Ken
- B Betwa
- C Dhasan
- D Son
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Correct answer: (A) Ken
Raneh falls lie on the Ken in Chhatarpur district near Khajuraho, where the river cuts a deep canyon through granite.
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Q.74
The Bina oil refinery, commissioned in 2011, is in which district of Madhya Pradesh?
- A Sagar
- B Vidisha
- C Ashoknagar
- D Damoh
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Correct answer: (A) Sagar
The refinery near Bina in Sagar district was built by Bharat Oman Refineries and receives crude oil by pipeline from Vadinar on the Gujarat coast.
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Q.75
Keshavdas, the Hindi poet who wrote Ramchandrika, Rasikpriya and Kavipriya, adorned the court of which state?
- A Gwalior
- B Rewa
- C Panna
- D Orchha
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Correct answer: (D) Orchha
Keshavdas was the court poet of Raja Indrajit Singh of Orchha in the late 16th century and is counted among the masters of the riti tradition of Hindi poetry.
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Q.76
Consider the following statements about Sanchi: 1. Relics of the Buddha's disciples Sariputta and Mahamoggallana were found in Stupa No. 3. 2. The site was first brought to modern notice in 1818 by Alexander Cunningham. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- A Only 1
- B Only 2
- C Both 1 and 2
- D Neither 1 nor 2
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Correct answer: (A) Only 1
Stupa No. 3 at Sanchi held the relics of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana. Statement 2 is wrong: General Henry Taylor reported Sanchi in 1818, and Cunningham excavated there only in 1851.
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Q.77
Before he became emperor, Ashoka served as the Mauryan viceroy at which city in present Madhya Pradesh?
- A Ujjain
- B Vidisha
- C Eran
- D Tripuri
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Correct answer: (A) Ujjain
Bindusara posted Prince Ashoka as viceroy at Ujjain, the seat of the Avanti province of the Mauryan empire.
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Q.78
Consider the following statements: 1. Raja Shankar Shah was a descendant of the Gond rulers of Garha-Mandla. 2. Raja Shankar Shah and his son Raghunath Shah were executed by being blown from cannons in 1857. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- A Only 1
- B Only 2
- C Both 1 and 2
- D Neither 1 nor 2
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Correct answer: (C) Both 1 and 2
Shankar Shah belonged to the old Gond royal line of Garha-Mandla, the house into which Rani Durgavati had married. He and Raghunath Shah were blown from cannons on 18 September 1857 for planning a revolt.
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Q.79
Which thermal power station is correctly matched with its location?
- A Satpura TPS – Singrauli
- B Vindhyachal STPS – Sarni (Betul)
- C Sanjay Gandhi TPS – Birsinghpur (Umaria)
- D Amarkantak TPS – Khandwa
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Correct answer: (C) Sanjay Gandhi TPS – Birsinghpur (Umaria)
The Sanjay Gandhi thermal power station is at Birsinghpur Pali in Umaria district. The Satpura station is at Sarni in Betul, NTPC's Vindhyachal station is in Singrauli and the Amarkantak station is in Anuppur district.
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Q.80
Consider the following statements about Maharaja Chhatrasal: 1. He was the son of Champat Rai. 2. He made Orchha the capital of his kingdom. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- A Only 1
- B Only 2
- C Both 1 and 2
- D Neither 1 nor 2
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Correct answer: (A) Only 1
Chhatrasal was the son of the Bundela chief Champat Rai, who had also fought the Mughals. Chhatrasal's kingdom was centred on Panna, not Orchha, so only statement 1 is correct.
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Q.81
Which Governor-General led the campaign of 1817-18 that broke the power of the Pindaris in central India?
- A Lord Wellesley
- B Lord Hastings
- C Lord Cornwallis
- D Lord William Bentinck
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Correct answer: (B) Lord Hastings
Lord Hastings (the Marquess of Hastings) surrounded the Pindari bands with large armies in 1817-18, and the campaign merged into the Third Anglo-Maratha War. Wellesley's term (1798-1805) was earlier.
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Q.82
Which fort did the Mughal emperor Babur describe as 'the pearl amongst the fortresses of Hind'?
- A Asirgarh
- B Chanderi
- C Raisen
- D Gwalior
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Correct answer: (D) Gwalior
The phrase is attributed to Babur, who visited Gwalior fort in 1528; the fort's palaces had been built by the Tomar rulers.
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Q.83
Before Chhattisgarh was separated in 2000, how many seats did the Vidhan Sabha of undivided Madhya Pradesh have?
- A 288
- B 403
- C 320
- D 294
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Correct answer: (C) 320
Undivided Madhya Pradesh had 320 assembly seats; 90 went to Chhattisgarh in 2000, leaving 230 in Madhya Pradesh.
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Q.84
Navdatoli, a Chalcolithic (Malwa culture) site on the Narmada opposite Maheshwar, was excavated in the 1950s under which archaeologist?
- A V. S. Wakankar
- B B. B. Lal
- C Mortimer Wheeler
- D H. D. Sankalia
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Correct answer: (D) H. D. Sankalia
H. D. Sankalia of Deccan College, Pune led the Navdatoli excavations, which revealed a farming village of the Malwa culture. Wakankar is known for Bhimbetka and Kayatha.
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Q.85
The Ashokan minor rock edict at Gujarra, one of the few inscriptions that name the emperor as 'Ashoka', is in which district?
- A Shivpuri
- B Sehore
- C Datia
- D Katni
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Correct answer: (C) Datia
Gujarra is in Datia district. Most edicts call the king Devanampiya Piyadasi, but Gujarra, like Maski in Karnataka, also gives the name Ashoka.
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Q.86
The Jhanda (Flag) Satyagraha of 1923 began at Jabalpur. To which city did it then shift, where it grew into a wider movement?
- A Wardha
- B Bombay
- C Nagpur
- D Allahabad
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Correct answer: (C) Nagpur
When the police stopped volunteers from hoisting the national flag on the Jabalpur town hall in 1923, the agitation moved to Nagpur, where volunteers from many provinces courted arrest. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was among those who took part.
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Q.87
The Jahangir Mahal at Orchha, built to honour the Mughal emperor's visit, is the work of which Bundela ruler?
- A Rudra Pratap Singh
- B Bir Singh Deo
- C Jujhar Singh
- D Chhatrasal
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Correct answer: (B) Bir Singh Deo
Bir Singh Deo, a close ally of Jahangir, built the Jahangir Mahal at Orchha in the early 17th century.
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Q.88
Red and yellow soils in Madhya Pradesh are found mainly in which part of the state?
- A The Malwa plateau around Indore and Ujjain
- B The Chambal plain of Bhind and Morena
- C The eastern districts such as Mandla, Balaghat, Shahdol and Sidhi
- D The Nimar area of Khargone and Barwani
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Correct answer: (C) The eastern districts such as Mandla, Balaghat, Shahdol and Sidhi
Red and yellow soils, coloured by iron oxides, cover the eastern part of the state, including Baghelkhand, Mandla and Balaghat. They are less fertile than black soil and are used mainly for rice and minor millets.
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Q.89
Chanderi, famous for its light handwoven sarees of silk and cotton, is in which district?
- A Guna
- B Shivpuri
- C Ashoknagar
- D Vidisha
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Correct answer: (C) Ashoknagar
Chanderi town lies in Ashoknagar district, which was carved out of Guna district in 2003. Chanderi fabric holds a Geographical Indication tag.
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Q.90
According to tradition, Tansen learnt music from which saint-musician of Vrindavan?
- A Surdas
- B Swami Haridas
- C Vallabhacharya
- D Kabir
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Correct answer: (B) Swami Haridas
Tradition holds that Tansen trained under Swami Haridas of Vrindavan, a master of Dhrupad, before rising to fame. Surdas was a Braj poet of the same era but not his teacher.
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Q.91
Mumtaz Mahal died in 1631 at which city of present Madhya Pradesh, where she was first buried before her body was taken to Agra?
- A Mandu
- B Burhanpur
- C Chanderi
- D Sironj
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Correct answer: (B) Burhanpur
Shah Jahan was campaigning in the Deccan when Mumtaz Mahal died at Burhanpur in 1631; she was buried for a time at Zainabad across the Tapti before reburial at the Taj Mahal.
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Q.92
The name Khajuraho is generally linked with which tree, said to have grown in the area?
- A Banyan
- B Sal
- C Mahua
- D Date palm (khajur)
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Correct answer: (D) Date palm (khajur)
Khajuraho, the ancient Kharjuravahaka, is believed to take its name from the khajur (date palm) trees of the area. The Chandelas built most of its temples between about 950 and 1050 CE.
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Q.93
The revolt of 1857 in the region of present Madhya Pradesh first broke out on 3 June 1857 at which cantonment?
- A Mhow
- B Sagar
- C Morar
- D Neemuch
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Correct answer: (D) Neemuch
Sepoys at Neemuch rose on 3 June 1857, and by July the revolt had spread to Indore, Mhow and other stations. Morar was the cantonment of the Gwalior Contingent.
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Q.94
The Bateshwar group of Hindu temples of the Gurjara-Pratihara period, pieced back together from ruins by the Archaeological Survey of India, is in which district?
- A Bhind
- B Morena
- C Datia
- D Shivpuri
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Correct answer: (B) Morena
The Bateshwar temples stand near Padavali in Morena district, north of Gwalior. The circular Chausath Yogini temple at Mitawali is in the same district.
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Q.95
Which is the largest tribal community of Madhya Pradesh by population?
- A Gond
- B Bhil
- C Baiga
- D Korku
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Correct answer: (B) Bhil
According to Census 2011 the Bhils, concentrated in Jhabua, Alirajpur, Dhar and Barwani, are the largest tribe of the state, followed closely by the Gonds.
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Q.96
Raja Man Singh Tomar of Gwalior is remembered as a great patron of which form of Hindustani music?
- A Dhrupad
- B Khayal
- C Thumri
- D Tappa
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Correct answer: (A) Dhrupad
Man Singh Tomar promoted dhrupad sung in the vernacular at his court and is credited with the music treatise Man Kautuhal; Gwalior became a major centre of dhrupad.
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Q.97
The Gond ruler Raja Shankar Shah and his son Raghunath Shah, who rose against the British in 1857, were executed at which place?
- A Mandla
- B Jabalpur
- C Sagar
- D Nagpur
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Correct answer: (B) Jabalpur
Shankar Shah of Garha-Mandla and his son were blown from cannons at Jabalpur on 18 September 1857 for planning a revolt against the 52nd Regiment.
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Q.98
Bada Dev (Budha Dev) is worshipped as the supreme deity by which tribe of Madhya Pradesh?
- A Bhil
- B Korku
- C Gond
- D Saharia
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Correct answer: (C) Gond
Bada Dev, also called Budha Dev, is the chief deity of the Gond tribe and is honoured in their clan and village rituals. The Bhils, Korkus and Saharias have their own separate religious traditions.
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Q.99
The Sarod Ghar, a museum of music set up in the ancestral house of the sarod family of Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan and Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, is in which city?
- A Maihar
- B Gwalior
- C Dewas
- D Bhopal
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Correct answer: (B) Gwalior
Sarod Ghar is in Gwalior, the home town of Hafiz Ali Khan and his son Amjad Ali Khan, and it displays instruments and memorabilia of Indian classical music. Maihar is linked with a different sarod tradition, that of Allauddin Khan and his son Ali Akbar Khan.
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Q.100
The Sahasrabahu (Saas-Bahu) temples in Gwalior fort, completed in 1093 CE, were built under which dynasty?
- A Kachchhapaghata
- B Tomar
- C Gurjara-Pratihara
- D Chandela
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Correct answer: (A) Kachchhapaghata
King Mahipala of the Kachchhapaghata dynasty, which ruled Gwalior in the 10th-12th centuries, built these Vishnu temples popularly called Saas-Bahu. The Tomars ruled Gwalior much later, from the late 14th century.
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