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RAS question

Match the following animal fairs of Rajasthan with their associated districts: P. Mallinath Fair — 1. Jhalawar; Q. Chandrabhaga Fair — 2. Barmer; R. Gogamedi Fair — 3. Hanumangarh; S. Tilwara Fair — 4. Barmer. Choose the correct match:

Correct answer: (B) P-2, Q-1, R-3, S-4.

The correct matching is Mallinath Fair-Barmer, Chandrabhaga Fair-Jhalawar, Gogamedi Fair-Hanumangarh, and Tilwara Fair-Barmer.

  1. (A)

    P-1, Q-2, R-3, S-4

  2. (B)

    P-2, Q-1, R-3, S-4

  3. (C)

    P-4, Q-1, R-3, S-2

  4. (D)

    P-2, Q-1, R-4, S-3

Explanation

Mallinath Fair is linked with Barmer because the official Rajasthan Tourism page for Barmer identifies the Mallinath Cattle Fair as a major Barmer festival held at Tilwara village in memory of Rawal Mallinath. That makes P-2, and it also explains why Tilwara Fair belongs to Barmer as S-4. Chandrabhaga Fair is matched with Jhalawar and is held on Kartik Ekadashi. Gogamedi Fair is matched with Hanumangarh: it is a major cattle trading fair dedicated to Gogaji, and the Rajasthan Tourism Hanumangarh page places Gogamedi village in Hanumangarh and links the fair with the Gogamedi Festival in memory of Shri Gogaji. Therefore the complete sequence is P-2, Q-1, R-3, S-4.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (A) It wrongly places Mallinath Fair in Jhalawar and Chandrabhaga Fair in Barmer, while Mallinath belongs to Barmer/Tilwara and Chandrabhaga belongs to Jhalawar.
  • (C) It treats Mallinath and Tilwara as two different Barmer codes, but in this matching set Mallinath is P-2 and Tilwara is S-4, not P-4 and S-2.
  • (D) It swaps Gogamedi and Tilwara: Gogamedi belongs to Hanumangarh, while Tilwara belongs to Barmer.

Concept

This tests Rajasthan's regional fair geography, especially the district-location mapping of cattle and religious fairs. Such pairs recur in RAS because fairs connect physical location, folk culture, livestock trade and local identity in one compact fact pattern.

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