Indian Geography Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The dam in the Chittorgarh area is the Rana Pratap Sagar Dam.

Rana Pratap Sagar Dam stands on the Chambal at Rawatbhata in Chittorgarh district. It is the second of the Chambal Valley Project's dams and has a hydroelectric power station; the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station is nearby.

Gandhi Sagar Dam, the first of the series, is upstream in Madhya Pradesh. Jawahar Sagar Dam lies downstream near Kota, and the Kota Barrage is in Kota city itself.

Answer: B

The Chambal Hydroelectric Project is shared by Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

The Chambal Valley Project is a joint venture of the two states, which share its costs and benefits equally. Its three dams (Gandhi Sagar in Madhya Pradesh, Rana Pratap Sagar and Jawahar Sagar in Rajasthan) generate hydroelectric power, and the Kota Barrage diverts water for irrigation in both states.

The Chambal flows from Madhya Pradesh into Rajasthan and back along their border, never through Gujarat, Punjab or Maharashtra, so those pairings are wrong.

Answer: B

The method first adopted by the Paliwal Brahmins was the Khadin.

The khadin, developed by the Paliwal Brahmins of Jaisalmer around the fifteenth century, is a long earthen embankment built across the lower slope of a field to hold rainwater running off the higher rocky ground. The water soaks in, and crops are grown on the moist bed after it dries, with wells downstream recharged by seepage.

A tanka is an underground cistern for drinking water, a toba a shallow village pond, and a jhalra a stepped tank fed by seepage; none of them is credited to the Paliwals.

Answer: C

The length of National Highways in Rajasthan was about 10,700 km.

Rajasthan, the largest state by area, has one of the longest national highway networks in India. Its length was about 10,618 km in March 2022 and about 10,700 km by the end of 2022, which is the figure the question asks for.

9,800 km understates the network, while 14,600 km and 18,400 km are far above the national highway length recorded for that date.

Answer: C

The non-metallic mineral is Calcite.

Calcite is calcium carbonate (CaCO₃), an industrial non-metallic mineral used in cement, paint, paper and fillers. Rajasthan is one of the states where it is mined.

Copper, silver and iron are metals, so their ores are metallic minerals, even though Rajasthan mines copper at Khetri and silver with lead and zinc at Zawar and Rampura-Agucha.

Answer: A

Rajasthan gets most of its rainfall from the South West monsoon.

The south-west monsoon, from about late June to September, brings the great bulk of the state's annual rainfall, with totals falling from more than 100 cm in the south-east to under 10 cm in the far west.

The north-east monsoon of October to December mainly waters south-east India, especially Tamil Nadu. Winter western disturbances bring Rajasthan only light rain (mavath). 'South East' and 'North West' monsoons are not the names of India's monsoon seasons.

Answer: A

The river that drains into the Bay of Bengal is the Chambal.

The Chambal rises in the Vindhyas near Mhow in Madhya Pradesh, flows through Rajasthan past Kota, and joins the Yamuna in Uttar Pradesh. The Yamuna joins the Ganga, which empties into the Bay of Bengal, so the Chambal belongs to the Bay of Bengal drainage.

The other three belong to the Arabian Sea side. The Luni ends in the Rann of Kutch, and the Sabarmati and the Mahi flow into the Gulf of Khambhat.

Answer: D

Raghunathgarh peak is in the Northern Aravallis.

Raghunathgarh, about 1,055 m high, stands in Sikar district and is the highest point of the northern Aravalli ranges, which run through Jaipur, Sikar, Jhunjhunu and Alwar.

The southern Aravallis contain the state's highest point, Guru Shikhar on Mount Abu. The central Aravallis are around Ajmer, and the Hadauti plateau lies in the south-east around Kota, away from the main Aravalli ranges. None of these holds Raghunathgarh.

Answer: C

The park is Keoladeo.

Keoladeo National Park at Bharatpur, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a wetland famous for its wintering birds, and it was the best-known wintering ground in India of the western population of the Siberian crane. The cranes have not been seen there since the early 2000s, but the park's fame rests on them.

Ranthambore and Sariska are known for tigers, and Mukundara Hills near Kota is a tiger reserve of forest and gorges. None is a crane wintering site.

Answer: A

The boundary is the Radcliffe line.

The Radcliffe Line, drawn by Sir Cyril Radcliffe's boundary commission in 1947, is the boundary between India and Pakistan. Rajasthan's western border with Pakistan, running through Sri Ganganagar, Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Barmer, is part of it.

The McMahon Line separates India and China in the east, the Durand Line separates Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the Blue Line is the UN-marked line between Israel and Lebanon.