Railway GK Questions 2026

The name itself preserves the link: Magadha gives Magadhi, and Magadhi gives Magahi. Ardhamagadhi, a close relative, is the language in which the Jain canon preserves the sermons of Mahavira, and Pali, the language of the Buddhist scriptures, grew out of the same eastern speech.

Bhikhari Thakur of Kutubpur in Saran district wrote, composed and staged plays with his own travelling troupe, and Bidesiya, on the suffering of a wife whose husband has migrated for work, became the name of a whole style of Bhojpuri theatre.

This is the traditional script of the Mithila region, used for Maithili manuscripts, panjis of genealogy and ritual texts, and it is related to the eastern group of scripts that also produced Bengali and Assamese letters.

Bhojpuri is spoken by crores of people in western Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and the Indian diaspora of Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname and Trinidad, and it has a rich folk theatre, yet it has not been added to the Eighth Schedule.

His Varna Ratnakara, a fourteenth century work, is counted as the earliest prose composition in Maithili and indeed one of the earliest in any modern Indian language.

Vidyapati was the poet of the Mithila court in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and his Maithili padavali of songs about Radha and Krishna is still sung in north Bihar.

This amendment added four languages to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, namely Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali, and raised the total number of scheduled languages from eighteen to twenty-two.

Pant headed the government of the United Provinces from 1937 and continued as the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh when the state took its present name in 1950, holding the office until 1954, after which he became Union Home Minister.

Begum Akhtar was born at Faizabad in 1914 and made her name at Lucknow as a singer of ghazal, dadra and thumri; she was called Mallika-e-Ghazal, the queen of the ghazal, and her voice shaped the way Urdu poetry is sung in the subcontinent.

Birju Maharaj belonged to the Kalka and Bindadin line of the Lucknow gharana of Kathak, the school that grew under the patronage of the Nawabs of Awadh and is known for expression, abhinaya and grace rather than for sheer footwork.

Sucheta Kripalani became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1963 and held the office until 1967, which made her the first woman to head the government of any Indian state.

Dhyan Chand was born at Allahabad on 29 August 1905, grew up at Jhansi and played in the Indian teams that won the hockey gold at Amsterdam in 1928, Los Angeles in 1932 and Berlin in 1936, the last as captain.

Azad, the leader of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association after the Kakori case, was surrounded by the police at Alfred Park in Allahabad on 27 February 1931 and died fighting there.

Born at Allahabad in 1861 and known as Mahamana, Malaviya founded the Banaras Hindu University in 1916, collecting donations across the country for it, served four times as President of the Congress and edited the newspaper Leader.

Both men came from Shahjahanpur and were members of the Hindustan Republican Association.

Mangal Pandey came from Nagwa village in Ballia district and was a sepoy of the 34th Bengal Native Infantry.

She was born at Varanasi in 1828 and was named Manikarnika, called Manu in the family; after her marriage to Gangadhar Rao she became the Rani of Jhansi.

Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 at Mughalsarai in the Chandauli tract, a station town now named Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar.

Bhushan belonged to Tikwapur in the present Kanpur district and wrote the Shivraj Bhushan, Shivabavani and Chhatrasal Dashak in Braj Bhasha, praising Shivaji and Chhatrasal Bundela in the veer rasa at a time when most Riti poets wrote love poetry for courts.

Firaq Gorakhpuri, whose real name was Raghupati Sahay, was born at Gorakhpur in 1896 and received the Jnanpith Award in 1969 for the Urdu collection Gul-e-Naghma, becoming the first Urdu writer to win the prize.