Essay Competition Quiz Contest City of India, Goa is known as the Pearl of the East and Jaipur Topic : The far reaching bad conse- is known as the Pink City. Concentric Quiz quences of increasing present 10. In 1534, the Portuguese named (India Special) population in India. presently known Mumbai as Bom Winners Bahai (Good bay) the derivation Winners of the name Bombay. Ist Prize Winner 11. During British rule Kanya Ist Prize Winner Anand Patle Kumari was known as Cape Shashi Kumar 13/2C, Junior MIG, Comorin, and was a part of S/o Sri Chandeshwar Saket Nagar, Kerala State. But with the Prasad Bhopal reorganisation of states, all Tamil LIG H-10/347 Hanuman speaking areas were seceded and M.P.-462 024 Nagar, Kankarbagh the district was formed in 1956. It Patna-20 IInd Prize Winner was named on the name of god- Priyvrat dess Kanya Devi. IInd Prize Winner H.No. 510/18 13. Banaras was officially renamed in Civil Lines, 1956 as Varanasi, a name from Miss Varsha Deshraj Gurgaon, antiquity. It was first known as Ramnagar, Haryana-122 001 Kashi, the city of light, when it Nagpur was the capital of the kingdom of IIIrd Prize Winner the same name about 500 B.C. Atanu Mondal 14. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime C/o Dhanapati Mondal Minister of India from 1947-1964 IIIrd Prize Winner Vill.-Daharpota was from Allahabad, Uttar Arvind Yadav Post-Baneswarpur Pradesh. S/o Sri Satya Prakash Lal Bahadur Shastri, the third Yadav North 24, Parganas Prime Minister of India from V.P.O. Jhook, West Bengal-743 270 1964-1966 was from Mughal Distt. Mahendragarh Sarai, Uttar Pradesh. Haryana-123 029 Answers Indira Gandhi, the fourth Prime 1. (A) 2. (B) 3. (C) 4. (A) 5. (B) Minister of India from 1966-1977 6. (D) 7. (B) 8. (C) 9. (A) 10. (B) and 1980 to 1984 was from Debate Competition 11. (A) 12. (A) 13. (C) 14. (B) 15. (C) Allahabad, U. P. 16. (B) 17. (D) 18. (B) 19. (D) 20. (D) Charan Singh, the Sixth Prime Minister of India from 1979-1980 Topic : American foreign policies Hints was from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. are good only for America. 2. The climatic conditions of Goa 16. King Vira Ballala Raya, the ruler such as, excessive rainfall from Winners June to September and no extreme of the Hoysala dynasty, in honour of the hospitality extended to him For the Topic temperatures (average tempera- by an old woman, set up a town- tures between 25 to 30C) are not ship at the site, calling it Bendra- Sanjeev Sirohi suited to the cultivation of corn. Kaal-Ooru or the town of boiled C/o Col. B.P.S. Sirohi 3. In Madhya Pradesh, Sanchi is re- beans. Over the centuries the A-82, Defence Enclave, nowned for its stupas. The great name mutated into Bengaluru Sanchi stupa 1 was built by was later anglicised to Bangalore. Sardhana Road, Kankarkhera Mauryan emperor Ashoka in 3rd Meerut (U.P.)250 001 century BC. 20. During the colonial period when 4. Andhra Pradesh was the first State Lord Hardinge was the viceroy of in India to be formed on a purely India, Lady Hardinge was fasci- Against the Topic nated by the gardens in Kashmir linguistic basis in 1953 with the Niaz Ahmed (Research merger of Telugu speaking areas valley and wished architect Ed- Scholar) of the Nizams Dominion and ward Lutyens, who designed the S/o Mohd. Moosa Barkatun Madras State. Rashtrapati Bhawan, to lay the Bee C/o Dr. M.S. Khan, 6. Alleppey, one of the best known garden in that style. He derived Deptt. of Political Science ports along the Coast of Malabar the inspiration from the Mughal Govt. S.N.S. College Shahdol and built on the banks of a net- Gardens of Kashmir, the garden work of canals is known as Venice of the Taj Mahal, and the Persian (M.P.)-484 001 of the East. and Indian miniature paintings.