Railway GK Questions 2026

Born at Babai in the present Narmadapuram district, he was a poet of the freedom movement as well as an editor, and he is widely remembered for Pushp ki Abhilasha, in which a flower asks not to be offered to a deity but to be strewn on the path along…

Isuri composed in Bundeli in the four line form called chaukadiya, sung above all in the fag songs of the Holi season, and his verses on love and separation are still sung across Bundelkhand.

Keshavdas lived at the Bundela court of Orchha on the Betwa, and he is treated as the acharya who opened the riti era of Hindi poetry, in which the rules of poetics mattered as much as the feeling.

Grierson grouped Awadhi, Bagheli and Chhattisgarhi together as Eastern Hindi, because all three descend from the same Ardhamagadhi line and share features that set them apart from the dialects further west.

Gondi is the language of the Gond people, the largest tribal community of central India, spread over the Satpura and Mahakoshal belt of Madhya Pradesh and into the neighbouring states.

Rewa was the capital of the Baghel Rajput house that gave the region its name, and the dialect shades into Awadhi towards Uttar Pradesh and into Chhattisgarhi towards the south east, which is exactly why Grierson classified it as Eastern Hindi.

Nimadi takes its name from Nimar, the country lying south of the Vindhyas in the Narmada valley, and it is spoken in Khargone, Khandwa, Barwani and Burhanpur.

The Chor Gumbad is a square domed tomb on a rise above the town, raised in the time of Firoz Shah Tughlaq by an Afghan noble named Jamal Khan, and its height made it a landmark for travellers.

He also cut canals from the Yamuna and the Sutlej to water the tract, and he founded Fatehabad and Firozpur in the same region, which is why his name runs through the medieval history of Haryana.

Dhosi Hill is an isolated hill of volcanic origin on the border of Haryana and Rajasthan in Mahendragarh district, and tradition places the ashram of the sage Chyavan on it, from whom the tonic chyavanprash takes its name.

Haryana Tourism names its roadside complexes after birds, and Blue Jay is the one at Samalkha. The practice gives examiners a ready supply of matching questions, so the complexes must be learnt with their places rather than by the look of the name.

The tomb of Sheikh Chilli, the Sufi teacher associated with the Mughal prince Dara Shikoh, stands on a high terrace at Thanesar, with a dome of white marble and a madrasa court beside it.

Adi Badri lies in the Shivalik foothills of Yamunanagar district, and tradition treats it as the point where the Saraswati emerges, which is why the state has taken up work on the river and on a reservoir there.

It is the one place in Haryana developed as a hill station, and the twin Tikkar Taal lakes lie below it.

Pinjore lies on the Shivalik slope in Panchkula district, and the garden there is a Mughal charbagh laid out in descending terraces by Nawab Fidai Khan, the foster brother of Aurangzeb.

He raised the Kabuli Bagh mosque and the garden around it at Panipat to mark his victory in the first battle of Panipat in 1526, in which Ibrahim Lodi, the last Lodi sultan, was killed.

Jyotisar lies a few kilometres from Kurukshetra town, and tradition identifies it as the spot on the battlefield where Krishna gave the Gita sermon to Arjuna.

Renu, born at Aurahi Hingna in the Purnia country of north east Bihar, set the novel in a village called Meriganj just after independence, and made the village itself the hero, with its castes, quarrels, politics, superstitions and hopes.

Dinkar, born at Simaria in Begusarai district and honoured as Rashtrakavi for his nationalist verse, received the Jnanpith Award for Urvashi, a long poem that treats the love of Pururava and the apsara Urvashi as a meeting of the earthly and the divine.

The dialect takes its name from that region, and a demand for its recognition is made alongside the demand for Bhojpuri.