IBPS GK Questions 2026

Written in the thirteenth century and also called the Bhavartha Dipika, the Dnyaneshwari explains the Gita verse by verse in Marathi poetry, and its importance lies in taking scripture out of Sanskrit and placing it before ordinary readers, which laid the foundation of the Varkari devotional tradition.

Devdas, the story of a young man ruined by his own indecision and by the rigidity of the society around him, is the most often filmed of all Indian novels, and its author also wrote Parineeta, Srikanta and Palli Samaj.

The collection, whose title means an offering of songs, was rendered into English by the poet himself, and the prize that followed in 1913 made Tagore the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He published Anandamath in 1882, and the song Vande Mataram that appears in it became the rallying cry of the freedom movement and was adopted as the national song of India; his other well-known works are Durgeshnandini, Kapalkundala and Devi Chaudhurani.

Tamil tradition holds that assemblies of poets, called Sangams, met under the patronage of the Pandya kings, and Madurai, the Pandya capital, is the seat remembered in the accounts that survive; the poems collected there form the oldest body of Tamil literature.

The Silappadikaram, whose name means the tale of the anklet, follows the merchant Kovalan, his wife Kannagi and the dancer Madhavi, and ends with Kannagi proving her husband's innocence before the Pandya king and bringing fire upon Madurai; she is worshipped afterwards as a goddess of chastity.

In the Sangam poems the word muvendar stands for the three crowned rulers of the Tamil country, the Chera, the Chola and the Pandya, each with a port and an inland centre of power, and the poems praise their gifts and their wars.

He composed one thousand three hundred and thirty couplets arranged in one hundred and thirty-three chapters and grouped in three parts, on virtue, wealth and love; because the work preaches conduct without attaching itself to any one religion, people of every faith in the Tamil country honour it, and it…

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development was set up on 12 July 1982 on the recommendation of the Shivaraman Committee, taking over the refinancing functions earlier performed by the Reserve Bank of India and the Agricultural Refinance and Development Corporation.

The Agriculture Census groups operational holdings by size into marginal below one hectare, small from one to two hectares, semi-medium from two to four, medium from four to ten and large above ten hectares.

e-NAM was launched on 14 April 2016, the birth anniversary of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, as an online trading platform that links the regulated mandis of the States into one national market.

The Fair and Remunerative Price is the minimum price a sugar mill is legally bound to pay a cane grower, fixed by the Central Government on the recommendation of the CACP under the Sugarcane Control Order.

Under it, central nodal agencies, chiefly NAFED, buy pulses, oilseeds and copra at the Minimum Support Price when prices in the mandis fall below that level, and the losses are borne by the Government.

The Food Corporation of India was set up in 1965 under the Food Corporations Act of 1964, at a time of severe food shortage, to procure food grains, maintain buffer stocks, distribute grain through the public distribution system and keep prices stable for both the farmer and the consumer.

The Union Budget of 2018 announced that the Minimum Support Price would be kept at a level at least one and a half times the cost of production, and the cost used for that calculation is A2 plus FL, that is all paid-out expenses together with the imputed value of…

The C2 cost is the most comprehensive of the measures the Commission uses.

Set up in January 1965 as the Agricultural Prices Commission and renamed in 1985, it works under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

When the Government announced the rabi Minimum Support Prices for the marketing season 2021-22, it also published the margin of each price over the A2 plus FL cost of production.

The public distribution system was made targeted in 1997, when households were divided into those above and those below the poverty line and the subsidy was concentrated on the poorer group.

The Government of India announces a Minimum Support Price for twenty-two mandated crops on the recommendation of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices.