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TNPSC - Geographical Epithets and Association of Places in India for All Competitive Exams

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Update at 8/21/2016

Geographical Epithets

Sorrow of Bihar - Kosi River
Sorrow of Bengal –Damodar
Sorrow of Odisha –MahaNadi
Blue Mountains - Nilgiris Hills
City Beautiful - Chandigarh
City of Ghats & Temples -Varanasi
City of Golden Temple -Amritsar
City of Palaces Kolkata & Chandigarh
Garden City of India - Bangalore
Gateway of India - Mumbai
Land of Five Rivers -Punjab
Land of Sunrise -Arunachal Pradesh

Association of Places

Bardoli -- Sardar Patel
Belur -Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chittor - Rana Pratap
Corsica - Napoleon Bonaparte
Dandi - Mahatma Gandhi
Fatehpur - Sikri Akbar the Great
Haldighat - Rana Pratap
Hiroshima (Japan) - Ist Atom Bomb dropped
Jallianwala - Bagh Massacre of Indians
Jerusalem - Jesus Christ
Kapilvastu - Buddha
Lumbini - Buddha
Macedonia - Alexander the Great
Mecca - Prophet Mohammed
Nagasaki (Japan) - IInd Atom Bomb dropped
Pearl Harbour - Japan's attack during World War II
Pondicherry - Aurobindo Ghosh
Porbunder, Rajghat - Mahatma Gandhi
Sabarmati - Mahatma Gandhi
Seringapatnam - Tipu Sultan
Shakti Sthal (New Delhi) - Mrs. Indira Gandhi
Shantivana - Jawaharlal Nehru
Shantiniketan - R.N. Tagore
Talwandi - Guru Nanak
Trafalgar -Nelson
Ujjain -Mahavira
Vijay Ghat (Delhi) - L.B. Shastri
Vrindaban (U.P.) - Lord Krishna
Waterloo - Napoleon