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RAS question

Match the tourist festivals with their associated cities: P. Desert Festival — 1. Udaipur Q. Mewar Festival — 2. Jaisalmer R. Teej Festival — 3. Jaipur S. Gangaur Festival — 4. Jaipur Codes:

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

The correct matching is Desert Festival-Jaisalmer, Mewar Festival-Udaipur, Teej Festival-Jaipur, and Gangaur Festival-Jaipur.

  1. (A)

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

  2. (B)

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

  3. (C)

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

  4. (D)

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

Explanation

The match works because each festival is tied to a specific Rajasthan tourism circuit rather than merely to a general cultural theme. Rajasthan Tourism's official events page lists the Desert Festival with Jaisalmer, matching the desert-city association in the question. It lists the Mewar Festival with Udaipur, where the festival is held during Gangaur. The same official events page lists Teej Festival with Jaipur, linking Teej to Jaipur's monsoon-season celebration. It also lists Gangaur Fair with Jaipur, where prominent Gangaur processions of Gauri idols are held. Therefore, the only code that keeps all four event-city pairs intact is P-2, Q-1, R-3, S-4.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (A) It swaps the first two pairs: Desert Festival belongs with Jaisalmer, not Udaipur, and Mewar Festival belongs with Udaipur, not Jaisalmer.
  • (C) It gets Desert Festival and Mewar Festival right, but reverses the two Jaipur entries by assigning Teej to the Gangaur code and Gangaur to the Teej code.
  • (D) It breaks the core geography of the list by moving Desert Festival away from Jaisalmer and Mewar Festival away from Udaipur, so the whole sequence collapses.

Concept

This tests Rajasthan's tourist festivals and their associated cities, a standard map-and-culture linkage in the Geography of Rajasthan syllabus. It recurs in RAS because festival-location pairs are compact facts that connect tourism, regional identity, and local cultural geography.

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