Consider the following statements.

I. Mandu is in Dhar district.

II. Hindola Mahal is in Mandu.

Select the correct answer on the basis of above statements.

Question

Consider the following statements. I. Mandu is in Dhar district. II. Hindola Mahal is in Mandu. Select the correct answer on the basis of above statements.

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Correct — D, both statements are true. Mandu (Mandav) is a hilltop town in Dhar district of western Madhya Pradesh, so statement I holds. The Hindola Mahal — the 'swinging palace', named for its steeply sloping (battered) walls — is one of Mandu's best-known monuments, built under the Malwa Sultanate, so statement II holds as well. Both being correct, the answer is 'both are true'.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Understates it — statement II is also true; the Hindola Mahal really does stand at Mandu.  (b) Wrong — statement I is also true; Mandu lies within Dhar district.  (c) Wrong — both statements are factually correct.

Concept: Mandu, perched on the Vindhyan plateau above the Nimar plains, was the fortified capital of the Malwa Sultanate (and earlier a Paramara stronghold). Its monuments — the Jahaz Mahal, Hindola Mahal, Hoshang Shah's tomb and Rupmati's Pavilion — are landmark examples of the Malwa/Mandu style of Indo-Islamic architecture. Administratively the town lies in Dhar district.

State PCS 2019 Q58 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2019 Q58 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer