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Consider the following pairs of tribal festivals/events and their associated districts in Rajasthan: 1. Baneshwar Fair — Dungarpur 2. Mangarh Dham — Banswara 3. Sita Mata Fair — Baran 4. Chaitra Purnima Fair (Bheel) — Udaipur Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

Correct answer: (A) 1 and 2 only.

Only the Baneshwar Fair-Dungarpur and Mangarh Dham-Banswara pairs are correctly matched.

  1. (A)

    1 and 2 only

  2. (B)

    1, 2 and 4 only

  3. (C)

    1, 2, 3 and 4

  4. (D)

    2 and 3 only

Explanation

Pairs 1 and 2 survive the location check. Rajasthan Tourism places Baneshwar Temple in Dungarpur, and its fair entry describes Baneshwar Fair as a tribal festival held there, with Bhil participation at the Mahi-Som confluence. The same official tourism material lists Mangarh Dham under Banswara and describes Govind Guru as a Bhil saint whose followers sacrificed their lives there, matching the Mangarh Dham-Banswara pair. Pair 3 fails because the Pratapgarh district gazetteer records Sita Mata Fair among fairs registered with the Tourism Department in Pratapgarh and identifies Sita Mata Wildlife Sanctuary with Pratapgarh, not Baran. Pair 4 is not Udaipur on the cited tourism page: Bherav Ji Festival, held in Chaitra Purnima, is listed at Banswara.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (B) Option B wrongly includes pair 4, because Rajasthan Tourism lists the Chaitra Purnima Bherav Ji Festival at Banswara, not Udaipur.
  • (C) Option C treats all four pairs as correct, but Sita Mata Fair is tied to Pratapgarh in the district gazetteer and Bherav Ji Festival is tied to Banswara in Rajasthan Tourism material.
  • (D) Option D omits pair 1 even though Baneshwar is listed with Dungarpur, and it includes pair 3 even though Sita Mata Fair belongs to Pratapgarh, not Baran.

Concept

This tests Rajasthan tribal geography through the district-event mapping of major fairs, shrines and memorial sites. Such pairs recur in RAS because they combine culture, tourism geography and tribal-area location recall.

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