Consider the following pairs : Famous place : Region 1. Bodhgaya : Baghelkhand 2. Khajuraho : Bundelkhand 3. Shirdi : Vidarbha 4. Nasik (Nashik) : Malwa 5. Tirupati : Rayalaseema Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
- (a) 1, 2 and 4
- (b) 2, 3, 4 and 5
- (c) 2 and 5 only ✓ UPSC's answer
- (d) 1, 3, 4 and 5
Why the answer is (c)
• Khajuraho lies in Chhatarpur district in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh (pair 2); Tirupati is in Chittoor district in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh (pair 5).
• Bodhgaya (1) is in Magadha (Bihar), not Baghelkhand; Shirdi (3) is in Ahmednagar district in western Maharashtra, not Vidarbha; Nashik (4) is in the Deccan/Khandesh region of Maharashtra, not Malwa.
• Hence 2 and 5 only, option (c).
Why the other options are wrong
- (a) 1, 2 and 4
- Bodhgaya is in Magadha and Nashik is not in Malwa.
- (b) 2, 3, 4 and 5
- Shirdi is not in Vidarbha and Nashik is not in Malwa.
- (d) 1, 3, 4 and 5
- Pairs 1, 3 and 4 are all wrong.
Asked in the GS Paper I of the UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination 2016, held on 7 August 2016. Question and answer key: Union Public Service Commission. Explanation: UPSC Answer Check.