{"id":2491,"date":"2025-05-02T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:54:40","slug":"q-with-reference-to-the-history-of-india-consider-the-following-pairs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-with-reference-to-the-history-of-india-consider-the-following-pairs-2","title":{"rendered":"Q. With reference to the history of India, consider the following pairs:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td><strong>Famous Place<\/strong><\/td><td><\/td><td><strong>Present State<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1.<\/td><td>Bhilsa<\/td><td>\u2013<\/td><td>Madhya Pradesh<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2.<\/td><td>Dwarasamudra<\/td><td>\u2013<\/td><td>Maharashtra<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3.<\/td><td>Girinagar<\/td><td>\u2013<\/td><td>Gujarat<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4.<\/td><td>Sthanesvara<\/td><td>\u2013<\/td><td>Uttar Pradesh<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>1 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 and 4 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 and 4 only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(a) 1 and 3 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes-hd-681468535e04a\">Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th><strong>Famous Place<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Present State<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Bhilsa<\/td><td>Madhya Pradesh<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dwarasamudra<\/td><td>Karnataka<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Girnagar<\/td><td>Gujarat<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sthanesvara<\/td><td>Haryana<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Bhilsa<\/strong>\u00a0is known\u00a0as\u00a0<strong>Vidisha<\/strong>, the main center of the Sunga dynasty\u00a0in Madhya Pradesh.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dwarasamudra<\/strong>\u00a0was in\u00a0<strong>Karnataka<\/strong>, as a regal capital of the Hoysalas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Girnagar<\/strong>\u00a0is also known\u00a0as city-on-the-hills in Junagarh district of\u00a0<strong>Gujarat<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sthanesvara<\/strong>\u00a0is in\u00a0<strong>Haryana<\/strong>. It was here that the Pandavas prayed to Lord Shiva.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Sunga-dynasty-1024x837.png\" alt=\"Sunga dynasty\" class=\"wp-image-51675\" style=\"width:802px;height:auto\" title=\"UPSC Prelims Research: Ancient History &amp; Art and Culture 2020 5\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous Place Present State 1. Bhilsa \u2013 Madhya Pradesh 2. Dwarasamudra \u2013 Maharashtra 3. Girinagar \u2013 Gujarat 4. Sthanesvara \u2013 Uttar Pradesh Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched? Answer:&nbsp;(a) 1 and 3 only Notes: Famous Place Present State Bhilsa Madhya Pradesh Dwarasamudra Karnataka Girnagar Gujarat Sthanesvara Haryana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[40,43],"years":[53],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-ancient-history","tag-art-and-culture","years-53"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":40,"label":"Ancient History"},{"value":43,"label":"Art and Culture"}],"years":[{"value":53,"label":"2020"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":40,"name":"Ancient History","slug":"ancient-history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":40,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":108,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":43,"name":"Art and Culture","slug":"art-and-culture","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":43,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":80,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}