Consider the following pairs : Famous place : Region 1. Bodhgaya : Baghelkhand 2. Khajuraho : Bundelkhand 3. Shirdi : Vidarbha 4. Nasik (Nashik) : Malwa 5. Tirupati : Rayalaseema Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Pairs 2 and 5 are correct because Khajuraho is located in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh and Tirupati lies in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh. Option (b) is a common distractor, but it is incorrect because Shirdi is in the Desh/Ahmednagar region (not Vidarbha) and Nasik is in the Khandesh region (not Malwa), while Bodhgaya is in Magadh rather than Baghelkhand. The question tests the core concept of Indian cultural geography by requiring precise mapping of prominent religious landmarks to their specific physiographic and historical-cultural regions.