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  1. Complete the sentence about Mumbai with the correct year: The city forms part of the Mumbai City and Mumbai Suburban districts and is administered by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, which wasā€¦
  2. Complete the sentence about Delhi with the correct year: According to the ______ census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million, while the NCT's population was about 16.8 million.
  3. Complete the sentence about Delhi with the correct year: In ______, New Delhi, a southern region within Delhi, became the capital of the British Indian Empire.
  4. Complete the sentence about New Delhi with the correct year: The foundation stone of New Delhi, south of central Delhi, was laid by George V during the Delhi Durbar of ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about New Delhi with the correct year: The new capital was inaugurated on 13 February ______, by Viceroy and Governor-General Irwin.
  6. Complete the sentence about New Delhi with the correct year: Under British rule, Calcutta was the capital of India until December ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about New Delhi with the correct year: The land for building the new city of Delhi was acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about New Delhi with the correct year: Large parts of New Delhi were planned by Edwin Lutyens, who first visited Delhi in ______, and Herbert Baker, both leading 20th-century Briā€¦
  9. Complete the sentence about Bangalore with the correct year: As per the ______ census, the city had a population of 8.4 million, making it the third most populous city in India and the most populous iā€¦
  10. Complete the sentence about Bangalore with the correct year: In ______ CE, the British formed a military garrison in the city and established the cantonment outside the old city.
  11. Complete the sentence about Hyderabad, India with the correct year: The Qutb Shahi dynasty's Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah established Hyderabad in ______ to extend the capital beyond the fortified Golcondaā€¦
  12. Complete the sentence about Hyderabad, India with the correct year: As the capital of the princely state of Hyderabad, the city housed the British Residency and cantonment until Indian independence inā€¦
  13. Complete the sentence about Hyderabad, India with the correct year: After the introduction of the States Reorganisation Act of ______, Hyderabad was made the capital of the newly formed Andhra Pradeshā€¦
  14. Complete the sentence about Hyderabad, India with the correct year: Since ______, the city has housed the Rashtrapati Nilayam, the winter office of the president of India.
  15. Complete the sentence about Ahmedabad with the correct year: In ______, Ahmedabad was ranked third in Forbes's list of fastest growing cities of the decade.
  16. Complete the sentence about Ahmedabad with the correct year: In ______, The Times of India chose Ahmedabad as India's best city to live in.
  17. Complete the sentence about Chennai with the correct year: As per the ______ Indian census, Chennai is the sixth-most-populous city in India and forms the fourth-most-populous urban agglomeration.
  18. Complete the sentence about Chennai with the correct year: In ______, the British East India Company obtained a grant for a strip of coastal land which then contained the fishing village of Madrasapatā€¦
  19. Complete the sentence about Kolkata with the correct year: After the Nawab granted the East India Company a trading license in ______, the area was developed by the Company into Fort William.
  20. Complete the sentence about Kolkata with the correct year: Under company and later crown rule, Calcutta served as the de facto capital of India until ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Kolkata with the correct year: The partition of Bengal in ______ affected the fortunes of the city.
  22. Complete the sentence about Kolkata with the correct year: In the late 20th century, the city hosted the government-in-exile of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Surat with the correct year: Surat will be the world's fastest-growing city from ______ to 2035, according to a study conducted by The Economic Times.
  24. Complete the sentence about Pune with the correct year: Pune was seized by the British East India Company in the Third Anglo-Maratha War; it gained municipal status in ______, the year in which Crownā€¦
  25. Complete the sentence about Jaipur with the correct year: Jaipur was founded in ______ by Sawai Jai Singh II, the Kachhwaha Rajput ruler of Amer, after whom the city is named.
  26. Complete the sentence about Jaipur with the correct year: On 6 July ______, the city was placed on the World Heritage Cities list.
  27. Complete the sentence about Jaipur with the correct year: Jaipur derives its name from Sawai Jai Singh II, the Kachhwaha ruler of Amer, who founded the city in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Lucknow with the correct year: The city had a population of 2.8 million according to the ______ census, making it the eleventh most populous city and the twelfth-most populā€¦
  29. Complete the sentence about Lucknow with the correct year: In ______, the East India Company moved its troops to the border, then annexed the state of Awadh, alleging maladministration.
  30. Complete the sentence about Kanpur with the correct year: Kanpur was an important British garrison town until ______, when India gained independence.
  31. Complete the sentence about Kanpur with the correct year: The strategic importance of the area was recognized by the British following their victory over Shuja-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Awadh, near Jajmaā€¦
  32. Complete the sentence about Kanpur with the correct year: The official transfer to British control occurred through the Treaty of ______ with Nawab Saadat Ali Khan.
  33. Complete the sentence about Nagpur with the correct year: According to an Oxford's Economics report, Nagpur is projected to be the fifth fastest growing city in the world from ______ to 2035 with an aā€¦
  34. Complete the sentence about Indore with the correct year: Jai Singh II, the Mughal Governor of Malwa, reached Kampel on 8 May ______, and defeated the Marathas in a battle near the village.
  35. Complete the sentence about Indore with the correct year: In March ______, the Marathas, led by Santaji Bhonsale, invaded Malwa again, but were unsuccessful this time.
  36. Complete the sentence about Indore with the correct year: By ______, the headquarters of the local pargana were transferred from Kampel to Indore, due to the increasing commercial activity in the cityā€¦
  37. Complete the sentence about Thane with the correct year: Before ______, the city was called Thana, the British spelling of the city.
  38. Complete the sentence about Thane with the correct year: Thane emerged as an urban area during the reign of the Shilahara dynasty, which ruled north Konkan during 800-______ CE.
  39. Complete the sentence about Thane with the correct year: The ______ CE Chinchani inscription of Vija-ranaka of the Modha family states that brahmanas from SrÄ«-sthāna settled at Samyana in his territorā€¦
  40. Complete the sentence about Thane with the correct year: A ______ CE Shilahara inscription refers to Srī-sthānaka as a velakula, that is, a harbour that was an important centre for import and export.
  41. Complete the sentence about Bhopal with the correct year: Bhopal was one of the last states to sign the Instrument of Accession, and acceeded to the Indian government in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Bhopal with the correct year: In ______, Bhopal became the capital of the newly-formed Madhya Pradesh state.
  43. Complete the sentence about Patna with the correct year: Following the partition of Bengal presidency in ______, Patna became the capital of Bihar and Orissa Province.
  44. Complete the sentence about Vadodara with the correct year: A plate dated to ______ mentions a battle on the bank of the Vishvamitri river in the vishaya of Vaį¹­apadraka, which had evidently replaced tā€¦
  45. Complete the sentence about Ludhiana with the correct year: Ludhiana was founded in ______ during the reign of the Lodi dynasty.
  46. Complete the sentence about Ludhiana with the correct year: Following the establishment of the Mughal Empire in ______, Ludhiana became part of the Lahore Subah.
  47. Complete the sentence about Nashik with the correct year: The Nashik Tram was started from the Old Municipal Building on the main road to Nashik Road railway station around ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Nashik with the correct year: On 21 December ______, Anant Kanhere, a Abhinav Bharat member and student from Aurangabad, assassinated Nashik's governor A.
  49. Complete the sentence about Nashik with the correct year: In ______, the Nashik Satyagraha was launched under the leadership of B.
  50. Complete the sentence about Faridabad with the correct year: In ______, Faridabad was considered by the World Health Organization as the world's second most polluted city.
  51. Complete the sentence about Meerut with the correct year: In ______, Meerut was as a significant location during the British colonial era, serving as the site of one of India's largest cantonments.
  52. Complete the sentence about Meerut with the correct year: Meerut was one of the first locations where the ______ rebellion against British rule began.
  53. Complete the sentence about Rajkot with the correct year: Rajkot is the 6th cleanest city of India, and it is the 22nd fastest-growing city in the world as of March ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Rajkot with the correct year: Rajkot was merged into Gujarat State from bilingual Bombay state on 1 May ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Varanasi with the correct year: In ______, Benares Estate, a zamindari estate, was established in the vicinity of the city in the semi-autonomous Mughal province of Awadh.
  56. Complete the sentence about Varanasi with the correct year: In ______, the East India Company acquired Benares city under the Treaty of Faizabad.
  57. Complete the sentence about Aurangabad, Maharashtra with the correct year: In ______, the region was annexed by the Delhi Sultanate during the rule of Sultan Alauddin Khalji.
  58. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Daulatabad became a part of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate.
  59. Complete the sentence about Aurangabad, Maharashtra with the correct year: In ______, Aurangzeb, who was then the Mughal viceroy of the Deccan region, annexed the city into the Mughal Empire.
  60. Complete the sentence about Aurangabad, Maharashtra with the correct year: In ______, Aurangzeb renamed the city as Aurangabad and made it the capital of the Deccan region.
  61. Complete the sentence about Amritsar with the correct year: In the Sikh tradition, Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh guru, is credited with founding the holy city of Amritsar in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Ranchi with the correct year: The Jharkhand state was formed on 15 November ______ by carving out the Bihar divisions of Chota Nagpur and Santhal Parganas.
  63. Complete the sentence about Ranchi with the correct year: The earliest evidence of use of several iron slag, pot sheds, iron tools found in Chota Nagpur region around ______ BCE.
  64. Complete the sentence about Howrah with the correct year: The list of villages appeared in the Consultation Book of the Council dated 4 May ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Howrah with the correct year: By ______, most of the present-day Howrah district was part of either of the two zamindaris: Burdwan or Muhammand Aminpur.
  66. Complete the sentence about Howrah with the correct year: The Howrah district was separated from the Hooghly district in ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Jabalpur with the correct year: The Maratha rulers of Sagar finally annexed the weakened Garha Kingdom in ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Gwalior with the correct year: Following the decline of the empire, the city fell into the hands of Jat rulers, then to the British East India Company in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Gwalior with the correct year: The Kachchhapaghata dynasty ruled the area c.950 ā€“c.______ CE, leaving remarkable architectural works such as the Sas and Bahu Temples.
  70. Complete the sentence about Gwalior with the correct year: In ______, Gwalior was attacked by forces led by Mahmud Ghazni.
  71. Complete the sentence about Jodhpur with the correct year: On 30 March ______, it became part of the newly formed state of Rajasthan, which was created after merging the states of the erstwhile Rajputā€¦
  72. Complete the sentence about Jodhpur with the correct year: Marwar formed a part of the Gurjara-Pratihara Empire and until ______ AD was ruled by a powerful Pratihara King.
  73. Complete the sentence about Madurai with the correct year: As of the ______ census, it is the third largest metropolis in Tamil Nadu after Chennai and Coimbatore in terms of population and 27th largesā€¦
  74. Complete the sentence about Thiruvananthapuram with the correct year: Travancore became the most dominant state in Kerala by defeating the powerful Zamorin of Calicut in the battle of Purakkad in ____ā€¦
  75. Complete the sentence about Mysore with the correct year: In December ______, the Government of Karnataka announced its intention to change the English spelling of the city to Mysuru.
  76. Complete the sentence about Mysore with the correct year: Seringapatam, near Mysore, the present-day Srirangapatna, was the capital of the kingdom beginning in ______.
  77. Complete the sentence about Bhubaneswar with the correct year: Although the modern city of Bhubaneswar was formally established in ______, the history of the areas in and around the present-day city cā€¦
  78. Complete the sentence about Bhubaneswar with the correct year: Bhubaneswar replaced Cuttack as the capital of Odisha on 13 April ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Bhubaneswar with the correct year: The modern city was designed by the German architect, Otto Kƶnigsberger, in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Dehradun with the correct year: Under British rule, Dehradun developed as an administrative and military centre and later became part of the newly formed state of Uttarakhaā€¦
  81. Complete the sentence about Shimla with the correct year: In ______, Shimla was declared the summer capital of British India.
  82. Complete the sentence about Shimla with the correct year: Small hamlets were recorded before ______ when British forces took control of the area.
  83. Complete the sentence about Shimla with the correct year: After independence, the state of Himachal Pradesh came into being in ______ as a result of the integration of 28 princely states.
  84. Complete the sentence about Shimla with the correct year: Even after independence, the city remained an important political centre, hosting the Simla Agreement of ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Panaji with the correct year: A new Legislative Assembly complex was inaugurated in March ______, across the Mandovi River, now full of casinos, in Alto Porvorim.
  86. Complete the sentence about Gangtok with the correct year: Gangtok rose to prominence as a popular Buddhist pilgrimage site after the construction of the Enchey Monastery in ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Gangtok with the correct year: In ______, the ruling Sikkimese Chogyal, Thutob Namgyal, transferred the capital to Gangtok.
  88. Complete the sentence about Gangtok with the correct year: After India won its independence from the British Empire in ______, Sikkim chose to remain an independent monarchy, with Gangtok as its capitā€¦
  89. Complete the sentence about Gangtok with the correct year: After Sikkim's merger with India in ______, Gangtok continued as the state capital.
  90. Complete the sentence about Gangtok with the correct year: The earliest records date from the construction of the hermitic Gangtok monastery in ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Gangtok with the correct year: Gangtok remained a small hamlet until the construction of the Enchey Monastery in ______ made it a pilgrimage centre.
  92. Complete the sentence about Imphal with the correct year: The Battle of Imphal took place between March and July ______, during World War II.
  93. Complete the sentence about Aizawl with the correct year: Before the British, Aizawl was a village founded by Chief Lalsavunga around ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Aizawl with the correct year: Aijal was formally established on 25 February ______ as Fort Aijal.
  95. Complete the sentence about Aizawl with the correct year: In ______, Fort Aijal became the headquarters of the Lushai Hills Military Police Battalion.
  96. Complete the sentence about Aizawl with the correct year: Fort Aijal would subsequently be attacked by Khalkam and the western Lushai chiefs, which would begin the Lushai Rising on 9 September ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Kohima with the correct year: Kohima was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II during the Japanese U-Go offensive into British India in ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Kohima with the correct year: The progress made by the company armies in annexing the region continued after the Indian Rebellion of ______, although now under the auspicesā€¦
  99. Complete the sentence about Agartala with the correct year: One of the earliest kings of Tripura was Patardan B.C. ______, long before the Manikya Dynasty.
  100. Complete the sentence about Rishikesh with the correct year: In ______, it was replaced by another, stronger bridge built by the United Provinces Public Works Department, connecting the Tapovan, Tehriā€¦

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