What name did Le Corbusier give to the park area developed in the eroded streamed running through the city?
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- Valley of Leisure
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History of Indian Subcontinent
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Name Le Corbusier’ system of ‘Proportioning’, patented in 1947 as an invention, on which the geometric elements of Chandigarh are based?
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- Modular
In which year was the city formally declared open by President Rajendra Prasad?
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- November 1, 1953
- February 8, 1949
Which 1941 Los Angeles project did Mayer city as the major source of inspiration for his Chandigarh plan?
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- Baldwin Hills Project
Which French Minister of Reconstruction and Planning first recommended Swiss architect and town planner Eduard Jeanneret or Le Corbusier, for the Chandigarh project?
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- Claudius Petit
In which South American city, developed in 1949, was the concept of urban ‘sectors’ widely used in the Chandigarh project?
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- Bogota
Which traditional Latin American housing plan with blocks of inward facing houses around a garden did Le Corbusier employ in Chandigarh?
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- Cuadra
Which innovative layout design widely employed in the Baldwin Hills Project formed the basic unit of Mayer’s plan for Chandigarh?
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- Superblock
What name did Mathew Nowicki give his alternative to the Mayer plan?
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- Leaf plan
After Lahore, which city served as the capital of Punjab before Chandigarh?
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- Shimla
Who was the first Union Minister of India to be assassinated?
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- Lalit Narayan Mishra
- Rajiv Gandhi
For which candidate was Rajib Gandhi campaigning when he was killed at Sri Perumbudur near Madras?
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- Maragatham Chandrashekhar
On November 15, 1949, which conspirator was hanged along with Nathuram Godse for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi?
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- Narayan Apte
Which aide to the Secretary State for India did Madan Lal Dhingra assassinate London in 1909?
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- Sir William Curzon Wyllie
Which Governor of Punjab, during the Jallianwala Bagh massacre 0f 1919, did Udham Singh assassinate in 1940?
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- Michael O'Dwyer
In December 1949, which US army civil engineer in India was awarded the first contract to plan Chandigarh?
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- Albert Mayer
Which capital project administrator along with P. L. Verma, the chief engineer of the Punjab Government, chose the site of the new state capital?
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- P.N. Thapar
How many languages are contained in the VIIIth Schedule of the Indian Constitution?
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- 22
The constitution of India describes India as?
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- A Union of States
The articles 17 and 18 of constitution provide?
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- Social equality