{"id":174759,"date":"2025-11-07T17:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T12:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?page_id=174759"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:17:15","slug":"which-of-the-following-statement-s-is-are-correct-in-respect-of-sengol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/which-of-the-following-statement-s-is-are-correct-in-respect-of-sengol\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of the following statement\/s is\/are correct in respect of \u2018Sengol\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rank-math-faq\" class=\"rank-math-block\">\n<div class=\"rank-math-list \">\n<div id=\"faq-question-69c8b5db28034\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">Which of the following statement\/s is\/are correct in respect of \u2018Sengol\u2019?<br \/>(1) \u2018Sengol\u2019 signifies the transfer of power from British to Indians<br \/>(2) It symbolises the Marathi culture of transfer of power from one King to other King<br \/>(3) The \u2018Sengol\u2019 has been reintroduced in the new Parliament Bhavan of India<br \/>(4) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru accepted \u2018Sengol\u2019 at 10.45 PM on August 14, 1947 from Adhinam of Kerala<br \/>(A) 1 and 3\u00a0<br \/>(B) 2 and 4\u00a0<br \/>(C) 3 and 4\u00a0<br \/>(D) 2 and 3<br \/>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n\n<p>Answer: 1 and 3\u00a0<br \/>Explanation:<br \/>Statement (1) is correct as the Sengol symbolised the transfer of power from the British to India in 1947, presented to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on the eve of Independence.<br \/>Statement (3) is correct as the Sengol was installed near the Speaker\u2019s chair in the new Parliament House of India inaugurated in May 2023. Statement (2) is incorrect; the Sengol tradition is associated with the Chola dynasty in Tamil Nadu, not Marathi culture. Statement<br \/>(4) is incorrect regarding the origin of the Adhinam (religious mutt) that presented the Sengol; it was from Tamil Nadu (specifically, the Thiruvavaduthurai Adhinam), not Kerala.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174761,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-174759","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175664,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174759\/revisions\/175664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}