RAS question
Which place is identified both with the parganas separated from Kota for Jhalawar and with the Kota-stone belt of Hadoti?
Correct answer: (A) Suket.
Suket is the place that links the parganas separated from Kota for Jhalawar with the Kota-stone belt of Hadoti.
Explanation
Suket is the only option that satisfies both clues. The historical strand places Suket in the territory separated from Kota in the formation of Jhalawar, including the southern portions of Suket tahsil in the later Jhalawar arrangement. The economic-geography strand also fits: Rajasthan Forest Department's Mukundara Hills Tiger Reserve Tiger Conservation Plan, while describing the Hadoti setting around Mukundara Hills, names Suket along with Ramganjmandi in the context of Kota-stone quarries. That dual match matters because the question is not asking for a famous Jhalawar town or a stone centre alone; it asks for the overlap between administrative history and the mineral-industrial belt of Hadoti. Suket is the only listed place that sits in both frames.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) Chechat fits the Jhalawar-side pargana clue, but the Kota-stone-centre context here points to Suket, not Chechat.
- (C) Jhalrapatan belongs to the Jhalawar historical setting, but it is not the place identified in the Hadoti Kota-stone context.
- (D) Ramganjmandi fits the Kota-stone belt, but it does not satisfy the Jhalawar pargana-separation clue.
Concept
This tests the RAS habit of linking Rajasthan's princely-state history with regional economic geography. Such overlap questions recur because Hadoti examples often combine administrative boundaries, local industries and named places.