1873
Description: Novel Laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore visited Dalhousie in the summer of 1873 with his father Maharishi Debendra Natha Tagore visited Dalhousie.
HP GK Questions with Answers & Quiz
Q. In Which Year Rabinder Nath Tagore visited Dalhousie?
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Q. Rohru is located on the bank of which river?
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Pabbar
Description: Pabbar river originate from Chandranahan lake. Lake is located on the south-eastern slopes of the main Himalayas which lies to the north west of Rohru in Shimla district of Himachal Pradesh. Chandranahan lake is a revered lake for the inhabitants of the valley.
Q. In which district is the famous Bhakra Dam, one of the highest gravity dams in the world, located?
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Answer: Bilaspur.
Q. On which river bank Alexander erected huge altars as a mark of his invasion of India?
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Answer – Beas
Description: Alexander, after gaining control of the former Achaemenid satrapy of Gandhara, including the city of Taxila, Alexander advanced into Punjab, where he engaged in battle against the regional king Porus, whom Alexander defeated in the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC.
Thereafter, Alexander’s marched east put him in confrontation with the Nanda Empire of Magadha and the Gangaridai of Bengal. As per documents, the Nanda army was supposedly five times larger than the Macedonian army.
Alexander’s army was exhausted, homesick, and anxious by the prospects of having to further face large Indian armies throughout the Indo-Gangetic Plain, mutinied at the Hyphasis (modern Beas River) and refused to march further east. Alexander, after a meeting with his officer, Coenus, and after hearing about the lament of his soldiers, eventually relented, being convinced that it was better to return. Alexander, then erected huge altars as a mark of his invasion of India. With the time those altars faded and completely demolished.
Q. Which river forms the boundary between Himachal Pradesh and the state of Jammu and Kashmir?
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Answer: Chenab River.