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The India Quiz is a quiz dedicated to topics related to India. The question set of the quiz is taken from an online quiz under Portal:India, in which registered users from English Wikipedia can participate. Each quiz has a group of 25 questions. For details, please see the Current Quiz Page. You can also take the quiz from the archives of India ...
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for "his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West." He was the first person of non-European lineage to win a Nobel Prize.
Politics of India works within the framework of the country's Constitution. India is a parliamentary secular democratic republic in which the president of India is the head of state & first citizen of India and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government. It is based on the federal structure of government, although the word is not ...
The idol could not be moved thereafter, and still lies facing the south, unlike in most other temples where the deity faces east. The main gopuram is one of the tallest (if not the tallest) in India, and the temple complex is almost a city in itself. Name the temple and the city.
QUESTION 23: The person A was preceded in his high political post by a person B born in some other continent than A. Years of studying at the university gave A connection with C, whose name was (and still is despite the fact C is no longer alive) one of the most respected in C's continent, which is different from native continents of A and B ...
See also: Political integration of India.) Since then, this structure has remained largely unchanged. Each state or union territory is further divided into administrative districts. [2] The districts in turn are further divided into tehsils and eventually into villages. States:
QUESTION 17: When the Babri Mosque was demolished in 1992, the Government of India asked the Rajputana Rifles to go to Ayodhya and control the situation there. For the first time in history, a regiment refused to follow the government order citing a very strange but valid reason.
It was planted by the British East India Company in the first half of 19th century. It acted as a customs barrier, and thorny trees and bushes were used to make it impenetrable. All of this to collect the Salt Tax at gaps in the hedge. It extended from Multan in North India to Burhanpur, and at one stage till Sonapur in Orissa.