This document contains a 10 question quiz about Jammu and Kashmir. Some of the questions are:
1) Jammu and Kashmir remained under which ruler during British colonization of India? Maharaja Hari Singh.
2) Who was stopped at the Kohala Bridge in 1946 and refused entry into the state? Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru.
3) According to Hindu mythology, the Kashmir Valley was formerly a lake that was drained by the sage Kashyapa by cutting a gap in the hills at Baramulla.
4) Lord Mountbatten threw in a remark about letting the people decide the state's accession when Maharaja Hari Singh
3. Q-1
Jammu and Kashmir never came under the
direct British rule during their colonization of
the Indian subcontinent. It remained under
which ruler?
5. Q-2
2)A Kashmiri Pundit was stopped at the Kohala
Bridge in 1946, and refused entry into the state. He
and his companions were arrested by Maharaja Hari
Singh when they entered the state anyway.name
the person?
7. Q-3
3)According to the mid-12th century
text Rajatarangini the Kashmir Valley was
formerly a lake. Hindu mythology relates
that the lake was drained by the
sage Kashyapa, by cutting a gap in the hills
at ___________________and
invited Brahmans to settle there.
9. Q-4
Maharaja Hari Singh sent a letter to X asking for his help
when the Pathan’s were at his doorstep. X threw in a
remark “It is my Government’s wish that as soon as law
and order have been restored in Jammu and Kashmir and
her soil cleared of the invader the question of the State’s
accession should be settled by a reference to the people”
which led to the unending dispute between India and
Pakistan. Name X?
14. Q-6
THE FIVE MONTH WAR
(APRIL 1965- SEPTEMBER
1965) BETWEEN INDIA
AND PAKISTAN IN 1965
WITNESSED THE LARGEST
_________TO PLACE
SINCE THE WORLD WAR
II. THERE WERE
THOUSANDS OF
CASUALTIES FOR BOTH THE
NATIONS, THOUGH INDIA
HAD GAINED UPPER HAND
BY THE TIME CEASEFIRE
WAS DECLARED WITH THE
INTERVENTION OF USA
AND USSR.
16. Q-7
Name the part of Jammu and
Kashmir which is a very large high-
altitude desert of salt that reaches
heights up to 5,000 metres. It
covers an area of
42,685 km² (16,481 sq mi) of the
disputed territory. Geographically
part of the Tibetan Plateau, often
called the Soda Plain.
20. Q-9
Katra, Jammu and Kashmir.
Katra or Katra Vaishno Devi, as
it is popularly known, is a small
town in Reasi district of the
Indian state of Jammu and
Kashmir situated in the foothills
of the which Mountains, where
the holy shrine of Vaishno Devi
is located. It is located 42 km
from the city of Jammu.
