(Antonyms) Part – B General Knowledge (Solved Paper 2024 – II) (101 to 150)

• Mahatma Gandhi was a strong advocate for the linguistic reorganization of India, believing that language was a basis for identity. He said that India could only cohere as a free nation if it accepted moral government.He also believed that people should not be provincial, but instead think of themselves as Indians.
• The Constituent Assembly of India did not recommend linguistic reorganization to be included in the Constitution. However, the government did establish commissions to study the issue.In 1948, the Constituent Assembly appointed a commission headed by Justice S.K. Dhar. This commission ultimately rejected the idea of reorganizing states based on language.

• A close disciple of Mahatma Gandhi C. Rajagopalachari, he led the march as a prolongation of the Dandi March to protest against the Salt tax imposed by the British on Indians.
• A group of 150 volunteers, mostly members of the Indian National Congress accompanied him from Trichinopoly to Vedaranyam in Tamil Nadu. They collected the salt directly from the sea as a part of the protest.

Vinoba Bhave received his first donation of land for his Bhoodan Movement in Pochampally, Telangana on April 18, 1951. The donation came from Vedire Ramachandra Reddy, a local landlord who gave 100 acres of his land to Bhave.

The exact date and route of maize's introduction to India remain a mystery, though some suggest it was brought by the Portuguese in the 16th century.

Initially cultivated in the western regions of the country, maize is believed to have come from Spain and Africa. Over time, it has become the third-largest food crop in India, contributing 9% to the nation's food basket.

Black Cotton Soil

• Black soil is also known as "Regur Soil" or the "Black Cotton Soil".
• It covers about 15% of the total land area of the country.
• The colour of these soils varies from deep black to grey.
• The black soils are generally clayey, deep and impermeable. They swell greatly and become sticky when wet in the rainy season.
  In the dry season, the moisture evaporates; the soil shrinks and develops wide cracks.
• Black soils are rich in iron, lime, aluminium, magnesium and also contain potassium. However, these soils are deficient in nitrogen, phosphorus and organic matter.
• Cotton, pulses, millets, castor, tobacco, sugarcane, citrus fruits, linseed, etc. are mainly cultivated in black soil.

Satluj River is the longest of the five tributaries of the Indus River.

• Satluj River is also known as "Satadree".
• Satluj River rises on the north slope of the Himalayas in Lake Rakshastal in southwestern Tibet at an elevation above 15,000 feet (4,600 metres).
• The Sutlej River is primarily located to the north of the Vindhya Range, east of the Pakistani Central Makran Range and south of the Hindu Kush region.
• Satluj is the example of Antecedent River.
• The Chenab is the largest tributary of the Indus. It is formed by two streams, the Chandra and the Bhaga, which join at Tandi near Keylong in Himachal Pradesh.

Granite can form as an igneous rock through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava. However, it can also undergo metamorphism under certain conditions, resulting in a rock known as metamorphic granite or meta-granite.