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The highest point in the Aravalli range is Guru Sikhar.

Kushinagar city

The correct answer is 1st April 2001 A.D.

• Uttarakhand Forest Development Corporation
  • ​It is a statutory body constituted by the State Government.
  • After the creation of a separate state, Uttarakhand Forest Development Corporation was established in 2001.
  • The Corporation was formed for the better preservation, supervision, and development of forest also for better exploitation of forest produce within the State and for matters connected therewith.
  • Chairman: Suresh Parihar.
  • Objectives:
    1. Removal of dead, dry, uprooted trees from the forest areas to support the Silviculture aspects of the management and working plans to the forest for assisting the natural regeneration.
    2. To meet the requirements of timber and firewood for the public and industries.
    3. Creating awareness among the people especially students for the environment ecologically through our Eco-Tourism program.

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• Minister for Environment and Forests of Uttarakhand: Harak Singh Rawat.

 The general physical relief is likely to be the boldest in the Himalayan Mountain Complex.

(e) All are plant products

The mountains which are not apart of the Himalayan chain Aravalli.

Indian Steamship Navigation Company

The correct answer is Himachal Pradesh.

• Himachal Pradesh shares its boundary with Haryana.

• Haryana is a state in the northern region of India with 22 districts.
  • The State borders Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north and Rajasthan to the west and south.
  • The river Yamuna defines its eastern border with Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

• Haryana also surrounds Delhi on three sides, forming the northern, western and southern borders of Delhi.
• Consequently, a large area of Haryana is included in the National Capital Region.

The correct answer is Firoz Shah Tughlaq.

• The city of Hisar was founded by a Muslim ruler, Firozshah Tughlaq in 1354 A.D.
• 'Hisar' is an Arabic word that means 'Fort'.
• The city, which we know today as 'Hisar', was originally called 'Hisar Firoza' or in other words the 'Fort of Firoz'. 
• The city was ruled by several major powers, including the Maurya in the third century BC, the Tughlaq in the 14th century, the Mughals in the 16th century, and the British in the 19th century.
•  After India achieved independence, it was unified with the state of Punjab.
• When Punjab was divided in 1966, Hisar became part of Haryana.

• Some important folk dances of Haryana -
  • Dhamal Dance –  is performed on moonlit nights of Phalgun
  • Loor Dance – It is performed around the Holi festival
  • Chhathi dance- is a ritualistic dance, performed to celebrate the birth of a new child
• The largest city of Haryana in terms of population: Faridabad
• Largest City of Haryana area wise: Bhiwani
• Assembly seats in Haryana: 90
• Lok Sabha seats in Haryana: 10
• Rajya Sabha seats in Haryana: 5

The correct answer is Muhammad Shah.

• In 1739, Muhammad Shah, the Emperor, gave the titles of Naib Bakshi and Rao to Balu.
• During the period of the Mughal Empire after the death of Aurangzeb, the old Gurgaon district (including Faridabad district) was torn between several contending powers.
• The exploits of Balram Jat, popularly called Balu, came to prominence in the fifties of the 18th century.
• Balu was the son of a petty revenue collector of Faridabad. 
• Supported by his family connection with Badan Singh, the Jat Raja of Bharatpur, he extended his power by seizing the neighbouring villages and ousting their lawful owners and the local magistrates.
• He killed Murtaza Khan, the local Mughal Governor Officer at Faridabad who had once imprisoned of the ascendancy of the Bharatpur Chiefs with the Mughal Court.

The correct answer is Both are correct.

• Nationalism refers to a feeling of love, loyalty, and devotion for a particular country.
• It promotes a sense of unity and national consciousness to maintain the nation's sovereignty.
• Education plays a crucial role in the development of nationalism by unifying and socializing people, creating a sense of solidarity among individuals, etc.
• The development of hate and fear in education is a demerit of nationalism.
• Examples:
  • Sometimes it leads to the development of hate and fear for children belonging to a different group like caste, color, religion, etc.
  • Children who are more regionally or otherwise inclined towards a particular religion, group, caste, etc might develop hate against nationalistic views.
  • This may lead to a break-up of the union or confederacy into many new states.

The correct answer is Tirumurai.

• Thirumurai is a twelve-volume compendium of songs or hymns in praise of Shiva in the Tamil language from the 6th to the 11th century CE.
• It was composed by 63 Nayaṇar saints and collated in the 11th century.
• It was later formed a part of the scriptural corpus of the Tamil Śaiva Siddhānta, a distinctive bhakti-oriented school of a pan-Indian Tantric tradition.
• Later, the poet Cekkilar composed the Periyappuraṇam, a hagiography of the Nayaṇar saints which was revered as the “fifth Veda”, and eventually incorporated into the Tirumurai.
• Hence, Tirumurai is the right answer.

(d) Artifacls

(c) Bhadrabahu – Brihat Katha Manjari 

(d) Jatakas are the stories that tell about the previous lives of the Buddha, in both human and animal form.

(b) Two-fifths

(a) Vasco da Gama

The Portuguese naval monopoly In the Indian waters was shattered by the Dutch.

Persian horses were obtained by Vijaya-nagar with the help of Mughals.

Cashew was not inroduced by the Portuguese to India.

(a) Muin-ud-din Chishti

(c) 1, 2 and 4

(c) Canonical texts are those that are linked to Gautama Buddha in one way or another. Canonical texts comprise three different kind of texts - the sutras (discourses), vinaya (discipline) and abhidharma (analytical texts),together they are called the ‘Three Baskets’ or Tipitaka (in Pali language) and Tripitaka (in Sanskrit).

(a) a Persian script used in Medieval India

(a) Agam Literature-This consists of original scriptures complied by Gandharas and Srut-kevalis. They are written in the Prakrit language. 

Non-agam Literature-This consists of commentary and explanation of Agam literature and independent works, complied by elder monks, nuns, and scholars. They are written in many languages such as Prakrit, Sanskrit, Old Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannad, Tamil, German, and English.

(d) Yajurveda

Shivaji maintained a fleet at Kolaba.

The correct answer is Jimutavahana.

• A "Dayabhaga" is a legal treatise dealing with various aspects of Hindu law.
• It was written by Jimutavahana and Ilemadri and has influenced the Hindu civil code of modern India.
• The provisions relating to property rights are followed in West Bengal arid Assam.
• Dayabhaga is a system in which the sons have the right to the property of their fathers only after the father's death.
  • It is only under special circumstances that the son has the right to property before the father's death.

(a) Buddhist priests

(c) 1498, Calicut

The correct answer is Silicon.

• Commercial fertilizer means a fertilizer or other substance containing one or more essential available plant nutrients that is distributed for its plant nutrient content and is designed for use and has value in promoting plant growth.
• The Fertilizers typically provide nutrients , in varying proportions they are:
  • (i) six macronutrients: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), and sulfur (S); and (ii) eight micronutrients: boron (B), chlorine (Cl), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), zinc (Zn) and nickel (Ni). 

• Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14.
• It is a crystalline solid, hard, and brittle with a blue-grey metallic lustre, and is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor.
• Silicon is a member of group 14 in the periodic table: carbon is above it; and germanium, tin, and lead are below it 

First Portuguese factory was established by Cabral.

(d) Connanore

The correct answer is Bhaskaracharya.

• Lilavati was written by Bhaskaracharya. He was an Indian mathematician who treatise on mathematics subjects, written in the year 1150.
• It is the first volume of his main work, the Siddhanta Shiromani, alongside the Bijaganita, the Grahaganita, and the Goladhyaya.
• The book Lilavati contains thirteen chapters, mainly definitions, arithmetical terms, interest computation, arithmetical and geometrical progressions, plane geometry, solid geometry, the shadow of the gnomon, the Kuṭṭaka - a method to solve indeterminate equations, and combinations.
• Bhaskara II gives the value of pi as 22/7 in the book but suggests a more accurate ratio of 3927/1250 for use in astronomical calculations.
• Also according to the book, the largest number is the parardha equal to one hundred thousand billion.

(c) Marathas

Chauth and Sardeshmukhi were paid by Mughlai.

Under Shivaji each province was under a Viceroy.

Vasco-da-Gama arrived at Calicut in 1498.

The Portuguese under the leadership of Vasco da Gama in 1498 first landed at Calicut.

Halebid is the present name of Dwara Samudra, the ancient capital of the Hoysalas.

Arya Samaj was founded at Bombay in 1875.

(b) Muhammad-bin-Tughluq

Rajatarangini by Kalhan is a history of Kashmir.

(a) Nasir-ud-din Mahmud

(b) Alauddin Khalji

Siraj-ud – Daulah, Nawab of Bengal and Robert Clive in 1757 C.E.

The second battle of Panipat fought between Akbar and Hemu (Chief Minister of Mohammad Adil Shah of Bengal) in 1556 C.E. at Panipat.