Indian States And Their Folk Dances Jharkhand Uttarakhand Chhau, Sarahul, Jat-Jatin, Karma, Danga, Bidesia, Sohrai.

Gadhwali, Kumayuni, Kajari, Jhora, Raslila, Chappeli Kuchipudi (Classical), Ghantamardala, Ottam Thedal, Mohiniattam, Kummi, Siddhi Madhuri, Chhadi. Goudi, Karma, Jhumar, Dagla, Pali, Tapali, Navrani, Diwari, Mundari.

Andhra Pradesh

Chhattisgarh Arunachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh Goa

Mask dance, War dance etc.

Jhora, Jhali, Chharhi, Dhaman, Chhapeli, Mahasu, Nati, Dangi, Chamba, Thali, Jhainta, Daf, Stick dance etc. Mandi, Jhagor, Khol, Dakni, etc. Bihu, Bichhua, Natpuja, Maharas, Kaligopal, Bagurumba, Naga dance, Khel Gopal Tabal Chongli, Canoe, Jhumura Hobjanai etc. Kathi, Gambhira, Dhali, Jatra, Baul, Marasia, Mahal, Keertan, etc. Kathakali (Classical), Rakhal, Nat Rash, Maha Rash, Raukhat etc. Laho, Baagla, etc. Manipuri (Classical), Rakhal, Nat Rash, Maha Rash, Raukhat, etc. Chong, Khaiva, Lim, Nuralim, etc. Odissi (Classical), Rakhal, Nat Rash, Maha Rash, Raukhat etc. Lavani, Nakata, Koli, Lezim, Gafa, Dahikala Dasavtar or Bohada, Tamasha, Mauni, Powara, Gouricha etc. Yakshagan, Huttari, Suggi, Kunitha, Karga, Lambi etc.

Assam

West Bengal Kerala Meghalaya Manipur Nagaland Orissa

Maharashtra

Karnataka

Gujarat Punjab Rajasthan Mizoram Jammu & Kashmir Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh Bihar Haryana

Garba, Dandiya Ras, Tippani Juriun, Bhavai, etc. Bhangra, Giddha, Daff, Dhaman etc. Ghumar, Chakri, Ganagor, Jhulan Leela, Jhuma, Suisini, Ghapal, Panihari, Ginad etc. Khanatm, Pakhupila, Cherokan etc.

Rauf, Hikat, Mandjas, Kud Dandi Nach, Damali.

Bharatnatyam, Kumi, Kolattam, Kavadi Nautanki, Raslila, Kajri, Jhora, Chappeli, Jaita. Jata-Jatin, Bakho-Bakhain, Panwariya, Sama-Chakwa, Bidesia, Jatra, etc. Jhumar, Phag Dance, Daph, Dhamal, Loor, Gugga, Khor, Gagor etc.

Wildlife Sanctuaries And National Parks In India Name Bandipur National Park Balpakram Sanctuary Chandraprabha Sanctuary Corbett National Park Dachigam Sanctuary Dudhwa National Park Location Mysore, Karnataka Garo Hills, Meghalya Important Species Elephant, Tiger, Bear, Sambhar, Panther Tiger, Elephant, Bison Asiatic Lion, Tiger, Panther, Indian Gazelle, Sloth bear

Varanasi, UP

Nainital, Uttarakhand Elephant, Tiger, Sloth bear, Nilgai, Panther, Sambhar Jammu & Kashmir Lakhimpur Kheri, UP Kashmir stag (Hangul) Tiger, Panther, Sambhar, Nilgai

Ghana Bird Sanctuary

Bharatpur, Rajasthan

Siberian Crane, Spoonbill, Heron teal, Stork Asiatic Lion, Panther,Sambhar, Nilgai, Crocodile, Rhinoceros

Gir National Park

Junagarh, Gujarat

Hazaribagh National Park

Hazaribagh, Jharkhand West Bengal

Tiger, Leopard, Sambher, Chital

Jaldapara Sanctuary

Tiger, Leopard, Sambher, Chital

Kanha National Park

Mandla and Balaghat, Tiger, Panther, Antelope, Barking Deer, Nilgai MP Great Indian one horned Rhinoceros, Wild Buffalo, Sambhar, Tiger Tiger, Elephant, Panther, Wild Buffalo, One horned Rhinoceros Elephant, Dear, Pigs Tiger and Elephant

Kaziranga National Park

Jorhat, Assam

Manas

Barpeta, Assam

Mudumalai Sanctuary

Nilgiri Hills, TN

Namdapha National Park Tirap Distt., AP Daltonganj, Jharkhand Warangal, AP Idukki, Kerala

Palamau

Tiger, Elephant, Panther, Leopard

Parkal Periyar Ranganthitoo Bird Sanctuary Shivpuri National Park Sunderbans Vedanathangal Bird

Tiger, Panther, Chital, Nilgai Elephant, Tiger, Panther, Wild board, Gaur, Sambhar

Karnataka

Birds

Shivpuri, MP West Bengal Tamil Nadu

Tiger, Birds Tiger, Wild board, Crocodile, Deer Birds Birds

Sanctury Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat

Wild Ass Sanctuary

Wild Ass, Wolf, Nilgai, Chinkara

River Side Cities Town Kabul (Afghanistan) River Kabul Confluence of Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati (invisible) Ganga Godawari Hooghly Mahanadi Ganga

Allahabad

Varanasi Nasik Kolkata Cuttack Patna

Chittagong (Bangladesh) Maiyani Lucknow Jamshedpur Haridwar Delhi Kanpur Gomati Subarnarekha Ganga Yamuna Ganga

Surat Srinagar Ferozepur Ludhiana Karachi (Pak) Yangon (Myanmar) Akyab (Myanmar) Vijaywada Lahore (Pak) Paris (France) Hamburg (Germany) Budapest (Hungary) Rome (Italy) Warsaw (Poland) Bristol (U.K.) London (U.K.) New Castle (U.K.) China Shanghai

Tapti Jhelum Sutlej Sutlej Indus Irawady Irawady Krishna Ravi Seine Elbe Danube Tiber Vistula Avon Thames Tyre

Yang-tse-Kiang

Nanking Chungking Canton Middle East and Africa Cairo (Egypt) Basra (Iraq) Ankara (Turkey) Baghdad (Iraq) Khartoum (Sudan) Europe Berlin (Germany) Belgrade Cologne (Germany) Lisbon (Portugal) Glasgow (Scotland) USA New York Philadelphia New Orleans

Yang-tse-Kiang Yang-tse-Kiang Si-Kiang

Nile Tigris and Euphrates Kizil Tigris Blue and While Nile

Spree Dunube Rhine Tangus Clyde

Hudson Delaware Mississippi

Monetreal (Canada) Quebec (Canada)

Ottawa St. Lawrence

mportant Lines and Boundaries Durand Line is the line demarcating the boundaries of India and Afghanistan. It was drawn up in 1896 by Sir Mortimer Durand. Hindenburg Line is the boundary dividing Germany and Poland. The Germans retreated to this line in 1917 during World War I. Mason-dixon Line is a line of demarcation between four states in the United States. Marginal Line was the 320 km line of fortification built by France along its border with Germany before World War II, to protect its boundary from German attack. Mannerheim Line is the line of fortification on the Russia-Finland border. Drawn up by General Mannerheim. Macmahon Line was drawn up by Sir. Henry MacMahon, demarcating the frontier of India and China. China did not recognize the MacMahon line and crossed it in 1962. Medicine Line is the border between Canada and the United States. Order-neisse Line is the border between Poland and Germany, running along the Order and Beisse rivers, adopted at the poland Conference (August 1945) after World War II. Radcliffe Line was drawn up by Sir Cyril Radcliffe, demarcating the boundary between India and Pakistan. Siegfried Line is the line of fortification drawn up by Germany on its border with France. 17th Parallel defined the boundary between North Vietnam and South Vietnam before the two were united. 24th Parallel is the line which Pakistan claims for demarcation between India and Pakistan. This, however, is not recognized by India. 26th Parallel south is a circle of latitude which croses through Africa, Australia and South America. 30TH PARALLEL north is a line of latitude that stands one-third of the way between the equator and the North Pole. 33rd Parallel north is a circle of latitude which cuts through the southeren United States, parts of North Africa, parts of the Middle East, and China. 35th Parallel north forms the boundary between the State of North Carolina and the State of Georgia and the boundary between the State of Tennessee arid the State of Georgia the State of Alabama, and the State of Mississippi. 36030 Parallel north forms the boundary between the Tennessee and Commonwealth of Kentucky between the Tennessee River and the Mississippi River, the boundary between Missiouri and Arkansas west of the White River, and the northernmost boundary between the Texas and the Oklahoma.

37th Parallel north formed the southern boundary of the historic and extralegal Territory of Jefferson. 38th Parallel is the parallel of latitude which separates North Korea and South Korea. 39th Parallel north is an imaginary circle of latitude that is 39 degrees north of the Earths equatorial plane. 40th Parallel north formed the original northern boundary of the British Colony of Maryland. 41th Parallel north forms the northern boundary of the State of Colorado with Nebraska and Wyoming and the southern boundary of the State of Wyoming with Colorado and Utah. 42nd Parallel north forms most of the New York - Pennsylania Border. 43rd Parallel north forms most of the boundary between the State of Nebraska and the State of South Dakota and also formed the northern border of the historic and extralegal Territory of Jefferson. The Parallel 440 north is an imaginary circle of latitude that is 44 degrees north of the Earths equatorial plane. 45th Parallel north is often called the halfway point between the Equator and the North Pole. The 45th parallel makes up most of the boundary between Montana and Wyoming. 45th parallel of south latitude is the east-west line that marks the theoretical halfway point between the equator and the South Pole. 49th Parallel is the boundary between USA and Canada.

National Highways No. 1 No. 1A No.1B No.2 No. 3 No.4 No.4A No.5 No.6 No.7 Delhi and Amritsar (via Ambala and Jaulandhar) Julandhar and Uri (via Madhavpur, Jammu, Srinagar and Baramula) Batot and Kishtwar (via Doda) Delhi and Kalkata(via Mathura and Varanasi) Agra and Mumbai (via Gwalior and Nasik) Thane and Chennai (via Pune, Belgaum, Hubli, Bangaluru and Ranipet) Belgaum to Panji Behragoda and Chennai (via Cuttack, Vishakhapatnam and Vijaywada) Dhuria and Kolkata (via Nagpur, Raipur and Sambalpu) Varanasi and Kanyakumari (via Nagpur, Bangaluru and Maduria)

No.8 No. 8A No.9 No.10 No.11 No.12 No.13 No.15 No.17 No.21 No. 22 No.23 No.24 No.25 No.26 No.27 No.28 No.29 No.30

Delhi and Mumbai (via jaipur, Ahmedabad and Vadodara) Ahmedabad and Kandia (via Morbi) Pune and vijayawada (via Sholapur and Hyderabad) Delhi and Farika proceeding to Indo-Pak border Agra and Bikaner (via Jaipur) Jabalpur and Jaipur (via Bhopal and Kota) Sholapur and Chitradurg Pathankot and Kandla (via Amritsar, Ganganagar and Jaisalmer) Punvel and Karngaur (via Karwar and Calicut) Chandigarh and Manali (via Bilaspur, Mandi and Kulu) Ambala and Shonia La on Indo-China border (via Shimla and Narkanda) Chaus and Teacher (via Ranchi and Rourkela) Delhi and Lunknow (via Bareilly) Lucknow and Shivpuri (via kanpur and Jhansi) Jhansi and Launaceen Allahabad and Varanasi Barauni and Lucknow (via Gorakhpur) Gorakhpur to Varanasi (via Gazipur) Mohanis and Bactnarpur (via Patna

No.31

Barhi and Pandunda Purnea and Siligudi

No.31 A Sivok and Gangtok No.31B North Salmara and Golpara No.32 No.33 No.34 No.36 No.37 No. 38 No. 39 No.40 No.41 No.42 No.43 No.44 No.45 No.46 No.47 No.48 Gobindpur and Jamshedpur (via Dhanbad) Barhi and Bargoda (via Ranchi and Jamshedpur) Daikola and Kolkata (via Behrampur) Naogaon and Dimapur Golpada and Saikhowa Ghat (via Guwahati and Jorhat) Makum and Lechapani (via Ledo) Numaligam and indo-Myanmar border (via lmphal) Jorhat and Indo-Bangladesh border (via Shillong) Golaghat and Haldia port Sambalpur and Cuttack (via Ongul) Raipur and Vijaynagar Shillong and Agartala (via Badarpur) Chennai and Dindigul (via Tiruchirapalli) Krishnagar and Ranipet Salem and Kanyakumari (via Coimbatore and Thiruvananthapuram) Bangaluru and Mangalore (via Hassan)

No.49 No.50 No.52

Madurai and Dhanushkodi Nasik and Pune Behra and Sitamani (via Tejpur, Passighat and Teju)

No.52A Bander and Itanagar (via Deva) No.53 No.54 Badarpur and Silchar (via Jirighat and Imphal) Silchar and Lundel (via Aizwal)

Oceans of the World Oceans by Size Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Caribbean Sea Arctic Ocean South China Sea Bering Sea (35,827 ft) (10, 924 metres) (30,246 ft) (9,219 metres) (24,460 ft) (7,455 metres) (22,788 ft) (6,946 metres) (18,456 ft) (5,625 metres) (16,456 ft) (5,016 metres) (15,659 ft) (4,773 metres)

Mediterranean Sea (15,197 ft) (4,632 metres) Gulf of Mexico Japan Sea (12,425 ft) (3,787 metres) (12,276 ft) (3,742 metres)

Oceans Greatest Depths

Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean Tonga Trench, Pacific Ocean, Phillippine Trench, Pacific Ocean, Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, Pacific Ocean, Kermadec Trench, Pacific Ocean Japan Trench, Pacific Ocean Puerto Rico Trench, Atlantic Ocean Yap Trench, Pacific Ocean,

10,911 mt (Challenger Deep) 10,882 mt (VITYAZ 11) 10,540 mt (Galathea Depth) 10,500 mt 10,047 mt 9,000 mt 8,6057 (Milwaukee Deep) 8,527 mt

South Sandwich Trench, Atlantic Ocean, 8,428 mt Peru-Chile Trench, Pacific Ocean, 8,065 mt

Important Foreign Travellers / Envoys

Megasthenes (302-298 BC) : An ambassador of Selecus Nikator, who visited the court of Chandragupta Maurya and wrote an interesting book Indica in which he gave a vivid account of Chandragupta Mauryas reign. Fa-Hien (405-411 AD) : He came to India during the reign of Chandragupta II Vikramaditya. He was the first Chinese pilgrim to visit India to collect Buddhist texts and relics Hiuen-Tsang (630-645 AD) : He visited India during the reign of Harshavardhana. I-tsing (671-695 AD) : A Chinese traveller, he visited India in connection with Buddhism. Al-Masudi (957 AD) : An Arab traveller, he has given an extensive account of India in his work Muruj-ul-Zehab. Al-beruni (1024-1030 AD) : He came to India along with Mahmud of Ghazni during one of his Indian raids. He travelled all over India and wrote a book Tahqiq-i-Hind. Macro Polo (1292-1294 AD) : A Venetian traveller, visited South India in 1294 A.D. His work The Book of Sir Marco Polo gives an account of the economic history of India.

Ibn Batuta (1333-1347 AD) : A Morrish traveller, his book Rehla (the Travelogue) throws a lot of light on the reign of Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq and the geographical, economic and social conditions of that time. Shihabuddin al-Umari (1348 AD) : He came from Damascus and he gives a vivid account of India in his book, Masalik albsar fi-mamalik al-amsar. Nicolo Conti (1420-1421 AD) : A Venetian traveller, gives a comprehensive account of the Hindu kingdom of Vijaynagar. Abdur Razzaq (1443-1444 AD) : He was a Persian traveller, came to India and stayed at the court of the Zamorin at Calicut. He has given a vivid account of the Vijaynagar empire. Athanasius Nikitin (1470-1474 AD) : He was a Russian merchant, describes the condition of the Bahmani kingdom under Muhammad III (1463-82). Durate Barbosa (1500-1516 AD) : He was a Portuguese traveller, has given a valuable narrative of the government and the people of the Vijaynagar empire. Dominigo Paes (1520-1522 AD) : He was Portuguese traveller, visited the court of Krishnadeva Raya of the Vijaynagar Empire. Fernao Nuniz (1535-1537 AD) : A Portuguese merchant, He wrote the history of the empire from its earliest times of the closing years of Achyutdeva Rayas reign. John Hughen Von Linschotten (1583 AD) : He was a Dutch traveller, has given a valuable account of the social and economic life of South India. William Hawkins (1608-1611 AD) : He was an English ambassador of British King James I to the court of Jahangir (1609). Sir Thomas Roe (1615-1619 AD) : He was an ambassador of James I, King of England, at the court of Jahangir, (the Mughal Emperor). Fransciso Palsaert (1620-1627 AD) : He was a Dutch traveller, stayed at Agra and gave a vivid account of flourishing trade at Surat, Ahmedabad, Broach Cambay, Lahore, Multan, etc. Peter Mundy (1630-34 AD) : He was an Italian traveller to the Mughal empire in the reign of Shahjahan, he gives valuable information about the living standard of the common people in the Mughal Empire. John Albert de Mandesto (1638 AD) : He was German traveller, who reached Surat in 1638. Jeen Baptiste Travernier (1638-1663 AD) : He was a French traveller, his account covers the reign of Shahjahan and Aurangzeb.

Nicolao Manucci (1653-1708 AD) : He was an Italian traveller, got service at the court of Dara Shikoh. Francois Bernier (1656-1717 AD) : He was French physician and philosopher. Danishamand Khan, a noble of Aurangzeb, was his patron. Jean de Thevenot (1666 AD) : He was French traveller, has given a good account of cities like Ahmedabad, Cambay, Aurangabad and Goloconda. John Fryer (1672-1681 AD) : He was an English traveller, has given a vivid account of Surat and Bombay. Gemelli Careri (1693 AD) : He was an Italian traveller, his remarks on the Mughal emperors military organisation and administration are important.