Very short questions:
1. What are the major cities located on river Ganga?
2. Who was Mirabai?
3. make a list of five permanent shops in your neighbourhood?
7.Who were the alvars?
8. Mention the two types of deserts found in the world.
9. What were the offices held by Sa'adat Khan?
10. Name the birds that are likely to be found in the Amazon Basin.
Answers
Answer:
1.The important cities and towns situated on the banks of the Ganga are Haridwar, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Bhagalpur etc. The Ganga has a special place in the psyche of the Indian people as being the most sacred of all Indian rivers.
2.Meera, also known as Mirabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Lord Krishna. She is a celebrated Bhakti saint, particularly in the North Indian Hindu tradition. Mirabai was born into a Rajput royal family in Kudki, Pali district, Rajasthan, Mira then spent her childhood in Merta, Rajasthan.
7.Alvars
The alvars or alvarkal were Tamil poet-saints of South India who espoused bhakti to the Hindu god Vishnu in their songs of longing, ecstasy and service. They are venerated especially in Vaishnavism, which regards Vishnu as the Supreme.
8.The two types of deserts found in the world are hot deserts and cold deserts.
9.Sa'adat Khan held the combined offices of political (subadari), financial (diwani) and military (faujdari) affairs of the province of Awadh.
10.Answer: The birds that are likely to be found in the rainforests of Amazon are toucans, humming birds and the birds of paradise, with their brilliantly colored plumage.