Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is Viticulture.

• Cultivation of grapes called Viticulture.

Key Points

• Cultivation of grapes either for wine production or for raw consumption (table grapes) is called Viticulture.
• China is the leading producer of grapes.
• It accounts for 16.9% of global production.
• China is followed by Italy at 10.8%, and later by the United States at 8.7%.

Additional Information

• Horticulture is a type of agriculture in which fruits and vegetables are grown.
• The breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish are called pisciculture.
• Sericulture is the production of raw silk by means of raising caterpillars.

The correct answer is Ajmer.

Key Points

• The headquarter of the Rajasthan Revenue Council is located in Ajmer.
• Functions of Revenue Department:
  • All matters relating to levy and collection of Direct Taxes.
  • All matters relating to levy and collection of Indirect Taxes.
  • Investigation into economic offenses and enforcement of economic laws.
  • Levy of taxes on sales in the course of inter-state trade or commerce.

Additional Information

• Bikaner:
  • Bikaner city is the district headquarters which was founded in 1486 AD by Rao Bika, a Rajput ruler, and is the fourth largest city of the State. 
• Jaipur:
  • It is the capital of India’s Rajasthan state.
  • It evokes the royal family that once ruled the region and that, in 1727, founded what is now called the Old City, or “Pink City” for its trademark building color. ​
• Jodhpur:
  • It is a city in the Thar Desert of the northwest Indian state of Rajasthan.
  • Its 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort is a former palace that’s now a museum, displaying weapons, paintings, and elaborate royal palanquins. 
• Ajmer:
  • Ajmer is a city in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.
  • It is situated on the lower slopes of the Taragarh Hill of that range. 
  • South of the city's artificial Ana Sagar Lake is Ajmer Sharif Dargah, the domed shrine of the Muslim Sufi saint Garib Nawaz. 

The pattern followed here is:

Given series U, R, O, L, I, ?

We subtract 3 in each letter we get-

Hence, "F" is the correct answer.

Important Points

• The Government of India was ready with repression during and even after the First World War.
• Throughout the war, repression of nationalists had continued.
• The revolutionaries had been hunted down, hanged, and imprisoned.
• Many other nationalists such as Abul Kalam Azad had also been kept behind bars.
• The Government then decided to arm itself with more far-reaching powers, which went against the accepted principles of rule of law, to be able to suppress those nationalists who would refuse to be satisfied with the official reforms.
• For this reason, in March 1919, the Government passed the Rowlatt Act even though every single Indian member of the Central Legislative Council opposed it.
• Three of them, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Madan Mohan Malaviya and Mazhar-ul-Huq resigned from their membership of the Council.
• This Act authorized the Government to imprison any person without trial and conviction in a court of law.
• The Act would thus also enable the Government to suspend the right of Habeas Corpus which had been the foundation of civil liberties in Britain.

Additional Information

• Just six months before the Montford Reforms were to be put into effect, two bills were introduced in the Imperial Legislative Council.
• One of them was dropped, but the other, an extension to the Defence of India Regulations Act 1915 was passed in March 1919.
• It was what was officially called the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, but popularly known as the Rowlatt Act.
• It was based on the recommendations made in the previous year to the Imperial Legislative Council by the Rowlatt Commission, headed by the British judge, Sir Sidney Rowlatt, to investigate the ‘seditious conspiracy’ of the Indian people. (The committee had recommended that activists should be deported or imprisoned without trial for two years and that even possession of seditious newspapers would be adequate evidence of guilt).
• The act allowed political activists to be tried without juries or even imprisoned without trial.
• It allowed the arrest of Indians without a warrant on the mere suspicion of ‘treason'.
• Such suspects could be tried in secrecy without recourse to legal help.
• A special cell consisting of three high court judges was to try such suspects and there was no court of appeal above that panel.
• This panel could even accept evidence not acceptable under the Indian Evidences Act.
• The law of habeas corpus, the basis of civil liberty, was sought to be suspended.
• The objective of the government was to replace the repressive provisions of the wartime Defence of India Act (1915) with a permanent law.
• So the wartime restrictions on freedom of speech and assembly were re-imposed in India.
• There was strict control over the press and the government was armed with a variety of powers to deal with anything the authorities chose to consider as terrorism or revolutionary tactics.