Largest in India

Largest, tallest, longest, biggest, deepest in India

Significance	Achiever
Highest Award	Bharat Ratna
Highest Gallantry Award	Param Vir Chakra
Longest River in India	The Ganges
Longest Tributary River in India	Yamuna
Largest Lake	Wular Lake, Kashmir
Largest Lake (Brackish Water)	Chillar Lake, Odisha
Largest man-made Lake	Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar, Rihad Dam
Highest Mountain Peak	Godwin Austin (K2)
Highest Dam	Tehri Dam, Uttarakhand
Highest Waterfall	Kunchikal Waterfall, Karnataka
Highest Gateway	Buland Darwaza, Uttar Pradesh
Highest Battle Field	Siachin Glacier
Highest Rainfall Place	Mawsynram, Meghalaya
Largest Populated City	Mumbai, Maharashtra
Largest State (Area)	Rajasthan
Largest State (Population)	Uttar Pradesh
Largest District (Ares)	Kutch (GJ)
Largest Delta	Sundarbans Delta (WB)
Largest River without Delta	Narmada and Tapi
Longest River Bridge	Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna
Longest Cantilever Span Bridge	Howrah Bridge
Biggest Cave Temple	Ellora (MH)
Longest Road	Grand Trunk Road
Tallest Statue	Statue of Gomateshwar (17 meters tall in KA)
Largest Public Sector Bank	State Bank of India
Longest Canal	Indira Gnadhi Canal or Rajasthan Canal
Largest Zoo	Zoological Garden at Alipur (WB)
Fastest Train	Shatabdi Express (Running between New Delhi and Bhopal)
State with Longest Coastline	Gujarat
Longest Electric Railway Line	Delhi to Kolkata via Patna
Longest Railway Route	Assam to Kanyakumari
Highest Railway Station	Ghum (WB)
Longest Tunnel	Jawahar Tunnel (J&K)
Largest Animal Fair	Sonpur (BR)
Biggest Hotel	Oberoi-Sheraton Hotel (Mumbai)
Largest Port	Mumbai
Largest Gurudwara	Golden Teple (PB)
Deepest River Valley	Bhagirathi
Largest Chruch	Saint Cathedral (GA)
Oldest Chruch	Saint Thomas Chruch (KL)
Longest Beach	Marina Beach (Chennai)
Highest Airport	Leh (Ladakh)
Largest River Island	Majuli (Brahmaputra River, Assam)
Largest Planetarium	Birla Planetarium (Kolkata)
Longest Highway	NH-7 (Kanyakumari to Varanasi)
Largest Building	Rashtrapati Bhavan
Largest Post Office	Mumbai GPO
Largest Lok Sabha Constituency (Area)	Ladakh
Largest Distance run Train	Vivek Express
Tallest Building	Imperial Building, Mumbai

Indian History: Important Dates Part II

1800-1950

• 1800: Death of Nana Fadnsvis
• 1803: Second Anglo-Maratha war begins
• 1802: Treaty of Bassein
• 1809: Treaty of Amritsar
• 1817: Third Anglo-Maratha war begins
• 1817: Establishment of Hindu College
• 1829: Practice of Sati Prohibited
• 1830: Raja Ram Mohan Roy visited England
• 1833: Death of Raja Ram Mohan Roy
• 1839: First Adghan war
• 1845: First anglo-Sikh war
• 1852: Second Anglo-Burmese war
• 1853: First Railway line opened between Mumbai and Thane and a Telegraph line in Kolkata
• 1856: Hindu Widow's Remarriage Act, 1856
• 1857: The Sepoy Mutiny of First war of Independence
• 1857: Establishment of University of Mumbai, University of Madras, University of Calcutta
• 1875: Arya Samaj Establish, Aligarh Muslim University, Deccan Riots
• 1877: Delhi Darbar
• 1885: Foundation of Indian National Congress
• 1902: Anushilan Samiti, organized revolutionary association formed
• 1903: British Expedition to Tibet, Delhi Darbar
• 1905: Partition of Bengal
• 1906: Jugantar formed, Muslim League formed
• 1909: Morle-Minto Reforms
• 1911: Cancellation of Pertition of Bengal, Third Delhi Darbar, Capital change to Delhi
• 1913: Gadar Party formed
• 1914: First World war begins
• 1916: Lucknow Pact signed by Muslim League andCongress
• 1919: Jalianwala Baug massacre, Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, Rowlatt Act is passed
• 1920: Non-cooperation movement, Khilafat Movement
• 1922: Chauri Chaura Incident
• 1929: Purna Swaraj resolution, Lord Irwin's Pact
• 1930: Civil disobedience movement launched, Dandi March by Mahatma Gandhi
• 1931: Gandhi Irwin Pact
• 1935: Government of India Act enacted
• 1937: Provisional Autonomy, Congress formed ministries
• 1939: World war II begins
• 1940: Lahore Resolution, August offer 1940
• 1941: Escpae of Subhash Chandra Bose from India, Death of Rabidranath Tagore
• 1942: Arrival of Cripps Mission in India, Quit India Movement launched
• 1943: Arrival of Subhash Chandra Bose forms provisional Azad Hind Fauj and Indian National Army, Bengal Famine
• 1945: Trial of Indian National Army at Red Fort, Shimla Conference, World war II ends
• 1946: British Cabinet Mission visits India, Interim government formed at center
• 1947: Division of India and Pakistan separate independent dimensions
• 1948: Mahatma Gandhi assassinated, integration of princely states
• 1950: India became Republic

Indian History: Important Dates Part I

1500-1799

• 1497-98: First Voyage of Vasco de Gama to India (discovery of sea route to India via Cape of Good Hope)
• 1526: First battele of Panipat (Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodhi)
• 1527: Battle of Kanwaha (Babur defeated Rana Sanga)
• 1530: Death of Babur and Accession of Humayun
• 1539: Sher Shah Suri defeated Humayun and became India's emperor
• 1540: Battle of Kanuj
• 1555: Humayun recaptured the throne of Delhi
• 1556: Second battle of Panipat
• 1565: Battle of Talikota
• 1576: Battle of Haldighati (Rana Pratap defeated by Akbar)
• 1582: Din-e-Illahi founded by Akbar
• 1597: Death of Rana Pratap
• 1600: East India Company established
• 1605: Death of Akbar and Accession of Jahngir
• 1634: The British permitted to trade in India in Bengal
• 1659: Accession of Aurangzeb and Shah Jahan imprisoned
• 1665: Shivaji Imprisoned by Aurangzeb
• 1675: Execution of Teg Bahadur (the ninth Guru of Shikhs)
• 1680: Death of Shivaji
• 1707: Death of Aurangzeb
• 1757: Battle of Plassey (established of British political rule in India at the hands of Lord Clive)
• 1761: Third battle of Panipat (Shah Alam becomes India's Emperor)
• 1764: Battle of Buxar
• 1765: Lord Clive appointed Company's Governor in India
• 1767: First Mysore war
• 1770: The Great Bengal Fami
• 1780: Second Mysore war
• 1784: Pitt's India Act
• 1790: Third Mysore war
• 1793: Permanent settlement of Bengal
• 1799: Fourth Mysore war (Death of Tipu Sultan)

Chief Ministers and Governors

In India a cheif minister is the head of government of each twenty nine states and two union territories. According to the Constitution of India, at the state level, the governor is head but executive authority rests with the chief minister.

Sr.	State and U. T.	Chief Minister	Governor
1.	Andaman & Nicobar	Union Territory	A K Singh
2	Andhra Pradesh	N Chandrababu Naidu	E S L Narasimhan
3	Arunachal Pradesh	Nabam Tuki	Nirbhay Sharma
4	Assam	Tarun Gogai	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
5	Bihar	Jitan Ram Manjhi	D Y Patil
6	Chandigarh	Union Teritory	Shivraj V Patil
7	Chattisgarh	Raman Singh	Balramji Dass Tandon
8	Goa	Manohar Parrikar	Mridula Sinha
9	Gujarat	Anandiben Patel	Om Prakash Kohli
10	Haryana	Bhupindar Singh Hooda	Kaptan Singh Solanki
11	Himachal Pradesh	Virbahdra Singh	Urmila Singh
12	Jammu and Kashmir	Omar Abdullah	Narindar Nath Vohra
13	Jharkhand	Hemant Soren	Syed Ahmed
14	Karnataka	K Siddaramaiah	Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala
15	Kerala	Oommen Chandy	Palaniswamy Sathasivam
16	Madhya Pradesh	Shivraj Singh Chauhan	Ram Naresh Yadav
17	Maharashtra	Prithviraj Chavhan	C Vidyasagar Rao
18	Manipur	Okram Ibobi Singh	Vinod Kumar Duggal
19	Meghalaya	Mukul Snagma	K K Paul
20	Mizoram	Pu Lalthanhawla	Vinod Kumar Duggal
21	Nagaland	T R Zeliang	P B Acharya
22	New Delhi	Arvind Kejriwal*	Najeeb Jung
23	Odisha	Naveen Patnaik	S C Jamir
24	Puducherry	N Rangaswamy	Ajay Kumar Singh
25	Punjab	Prakash SIngh Badal	Shivraj Patil
26	Rajasthan	Vasundhara Raje	Kalyan Singh
27	Sikkim	Pawan Kumar Chamling	Shriniwas Patil
28	Tamilnadu	Sushree Jailalithaa	Konijeti Rosaiah
29	Telangana	Chandrashekhar Rao	E S L Narasimhan
30	Tripura	Manik Sarkar	Vakkom Purushothaman
31	Uttar Pradesh	Akhilesh Yadav	Ram Naik
32	Uttarakhand	Harish Rawat	Aziz Qureshi
33	West Bengal	Mamata Banerjee	Keshari Nath Tripathi
34	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	Union Territory	B S Bhalla
35	Daman and Diu	Union Territory	B S Bhalla
36	Lakshadweep	Union Territory	Rajesh Prasad