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The correct answer is **Jawa.**​

Key Points

• Jawa festival is celebrated mainly by unmarried tribal girls and mainly for good fertility and household.
• Jawa festival celebrates in Jharkhand.
• During this Festival, the unmarried girls decorate a small basket with germinating seeds.

The correct answer is Sarhul.

Key Points 

• Sarhul festival is celebrated every year in the first month of the Hindu calendar during the start of the spring season in March-April.
• Sarhul is celebrated by the tribals like the Munda, Ho, Santhal, and Oraon.
• Sarhul is a festival in which tribal people worship the Saal Tree.
• In the Kolhan region, it is called "Baa Porob" meaning Flower Festival.
• It is the festival of great happiness.

The correct answer is Both (B) & (C).

Key Points

• Sardari-movement-1858-90
• The British incursion into the political horizon of Chotanagpur coincided with a great socio-economic revolution.
• ​This rebellion was born out of stripping the leadership of the tribes which was originally against the zamindars.
• The agrarian discontent against the imposition of beggars (forced labor) and the illegal increase in rent by middlemen resulted in the Sardaris movement, due to the leadership and leadership provided by the so-called Sardars.
• To solve these problems, the Chotanagpur Tenure Act was implemented. But this problem was not solved.
• By 1887 the movement had grown and many Munda and Oraon farmers refused to pay rent to the zamindars.
• The Sardari movement (or Larai as it was called) was at its peak in 1895 when a socio-religious leader named Birsa Munda appeared at the scene.
• The importance of Birsa Munda's role in the social history of Ranchi is evident from the title of Birsa Bhagwan given to him.

The correct answer is 1914.

• The Tana Bhagat movement (1914) was a movement in the Chotanagpur region of British India.
• This happened against the policies of the local British officials and the exploitative business practices of the local zamindars, mostly by the Oraon people.

Key Points

• The Tana Bhagat movement started in April 1914 and ended in 1919.
• It was a tribal movement started by Jatra Bhagat and Turia Bhagat in what is now the Chota Nagpur plateau in the state of Jharkhand.
• It is also known as the Oraon Tana Bhagat movement.
• The Tana Bhagats protested the taxes imposed on them by the British and they staged Satyagraha (Civil Disobedience Movement).
• He opposed zamindars, Banias (money moneylenders), missionaries, and the British.

The correct answer is Tilka Manjhi.

Key Points

• Tilka Manjhi was an Indian freedom fighter who was the first leader of the Manjhi community.
• He was considered the second fighter after Maharana Pratap.
• He took up arms against the British in 1784, almost 70 years before Mangal Pandey.
• He organized the tribals to form an armed group to grab the resources of the British and fight against exploitation.

Additional Information

• Birsa Munda was born on 15 November 1875 in a Munda family at Ulihatu in Bengal Presidency (in present-day Jharkhand).
• His parents were Sugna Munda and Karmi Hatu.
• Munda Rebellion (Ulgulan Movement) was led by Birsa Munda in the south of Ranchi in 1899-1900.
• Budhu Bhagat was an Indian freedom fighter.
• He had led guerrilla warfare against the British.
• He was the leader of the Larka rebellion in 1832.

The correct answer is Dhanbad.

Key Points

• Maithon Dam is located at a distance of about 48 km from the coal town of Dhanbad.
• It is located on the banks of river Barakar.
• The Barakar River is the main tributary of the Damodar River.
• The dam with an underground power station is one of its kind in the whole of Southeast Asia.

Additional Information

• Dams in Jharkhand:
• Panchkhero Dam - Giridih
• Paras Dam - Ranchi
• Raisa Dam - Ranchi
• Panchat Hill Dam - Dhanbad
• Khudia Dam - Dhanbad

The correct answer is Boxer.

Key Points

• Aruna Mishra is a female Indian boxer.
• She won ​gold medals in the 2003 Asian Championships, the world Championship In Norway In 2004 and the 2011 World Police and Fire Games.
• She Belongs to Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
• Apart From Boxing, She Is also a Police Inspector In Jharkhand Police.

Additional Information

• Deepika Kumari (born 13 June 1994) is an Indian athlete who competes in an archery competition.
• She was born in the city of Ranchi in the state of Jharkhand, India.
• MS Dhoni was born in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
• His native village Lovely is in the Lamgarha block of Almora district of Uttarakhand.

The correct answer is Indo-Pak battle of 1971.

Key Points

• Lance Naik Albert Ekka died fighting Indo Pak battle of 1971.
• ​Lance Naik Albert Ekka was a soldier in the Indian Army.
• He was martyred in the Battle of Gangasagar during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
• He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.

Additional Information

• The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, or the Second Kashmir War, was the culmination of skirmishes between Pakistan and India that took place between April 1965 and September 1965.
• The Kargil War was an armed conflict fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control.
• The Sino-Indian War between China and India occurred in October–November 1962.

The correct answer is Draupadi Murmu.

Key Points

• Governors of Jharkhand

The correct answer is Bandana.

Key Points

• Bandana is one of the most famous festivals celebrated during the black moon of the month of Kartik (Kartik Aamavashya).\
• This festival is mainly for the animals.
• In Jharkhand, this festival is celebrated to glorify cattle or cattle wealth in the month of Kartik (Karthik Amavasya) the day after Diwali.

Additional Information

• Sarhul is the main festival of the tribal population of Jharkhand.
• The verbal meaning of Sarhul is worship of the Sal tree.
• Sarhul can also be redefined as worship of nature in which local people worship Sita, the wife of Lord Rama as Dhartimata.
• They also worship the Sal tree, which is believed as the abode of Goddess Sarna who protects the village from all kinds of natural calamities and disasters.
• Karam festival is the worship of Karam Devta, the god of power, and youth.
• Karam occurs on the 11^th of the Moon in the month of Bhadra.
• During this people sing and dance in groups.
• The whole valley is seen dancing with the drums and drums of the feet.