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The Raikas could no longer move into Sindh and graze their camels on the banks of the Indus after ______.

  1. 1930

  2. 1935

  3. 1937

  4. 1947
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D Correct answer
Explanation
  • After the partition of India in 1947, the camel and sheep herding Raikas, for instance, could no longer move into Sindh and graze their camels on the banks of the Indus, as they had done earlier.
  • After independence in 1947, two nations were created—India and Pakistan. The camel and sheep herding Raikas could no longer move into Sindh and graze their camels on the banks of the Indus. 
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The yearly camel fair is held in _____.

  1. Rajastan

  2. Punjab

  3. Kashmir

  4. Gujarat
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A Correct answer
Explanation
  • Held each November at the time of the Kartik Purnima full moon, Pushkar Camel Fair is one of India’s most highly-rated travel experiences, a spectacle on an epic scale, attracting more than 11,000 camels, horses and cattle and visited by over 400,000 people over a period of around fourteen days.
  • For visitors it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the colour, spectacle and carnival of one of the last great traditional melas, which brings livestock, farmers, traders and villagers from all over Rajasthan
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The group of Raikas that herded camels is known as the ________.

  1. Chalkia Raikas

  2. Godwar Raikas

  3. Maru Raikas

  4. Pitalia Raikas.
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C Correct answer
Explanation
  •   Raikas were found in the deserts of Rajasthan. 
  • One group of Raikas, known as the Maru (desert) Raikas-hearded camels and another group reared sheep and goat.
  •  The Raikas is south Rajasthan have been known as camel experts for centuries.
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The settlement of the Raikasis called a __.

  1. Dhandi.

  2. Mandab.

  3. Wooden chalets

  4. Yurt.
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Explanation
  • This is on the Thar desert near Jaisalmer in Rajasthan.
  •  The camel herders of the region are Maru (desert). Raikas, and their settlement is called a dhandi.
  •  The settlement of Maru Raikas is known as  Dhandi
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'Raikas' the Pastoral community lived in which of the Indian state?

  1. Andhra Pradesh

  2. Jharkhand

  3. Chhattisgarh

  4. Rajastan
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D Correct answer
Explanation
  •  The Raikas is south Rajasthan have been known as camel experts for centuries. They belong to a pastoral caste who keep large herds of female camels for supplying work to various clienteles.
  • The Raikas often exchange what they produce  milk, meat, wool, and manure among other goods  for grains, vegetables, and other goods produced by their settled neighbours, often without use of money.
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Rajasthan is located towards which side of India?

  1. Eastern

  2. Western

  3. Southern

  4. North Eastern
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Rajasthan is largest state of India according to area. It is present on the western side of the India. It comprises wide and inhospitable Thar Desert. Rajasthan shares a border with the Pakistani provinces of Punjab to the northwest and Sindh to the west, along the Satluj-Indus river valley. It shares boundaries with five other Indian states- Punjab to the north, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to the northeast, Madhya Pradesh to the southeast  and Gujarat to the southwest.

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Which of the following is not a local tongue of Rajasthan?

  1. Shekhawati

  2. Marwari

  3. Harauti

  4. Telugu
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Telugu is a Dravidian language primarily spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in southern India. It is not a local language of Rajasthan, where Indo-Aryan languages like Marwari, Shekhawati, and Harauti are prevalent.

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The oldest inhabitants of India are considered to be:

  1. Mongoloids

  2. Negritoes

  3. Indo-Aryans

  4. Mediterraneans
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Negritoes,

The oldest inhabitants of India are considered to be Negritoes. Perhaps they were the first of the racial groups that came to India. They got settled in the hilly areas of Kerala and the Andaman Islands. Kadar, Irula and Puliyan tribes of Kerala resemble to a great extent with the Negritos. They are related to Africa, Australia and their neighbouring islands. The Negritos have black (dark) skin, woolly hair, broad and flat nose and slightly protruded jaws.