Railway GK Questions 2026

The Vijay Stambh, or Tower of Victory, is a tower of nine storeys inside Chittorgarh fort, raised by Rana Kumbha of Mewar in the fifteenth century to mark his victory over Mahmud Khilji of Malwa.

Chittorgarh, spread over a long mesa in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan, is counted the largest fort in India by the area it encloses, and the figure is quoted in almost every list of the state's monuments.

Batik, in which molten wax is applied to resist the dye so that the covered parts stay uncoloured, is practised at Bherugarh in Ujjain, and the Bherugarh print is the name under which the cloth is sold.

Chanderi is woven in three recognised kinds, pure cotton, pure silk, and the silk and cotton mix, and it is the last of these that gives the cloth its characteristic sheer, glossy, almost transparent body with a soft fall.

Maheshwar is a town of Khargone district, formerly called West Nimar, on the north bank of the Narmada.

Pithora is a wall painting of the Bhil and Bhilala people of the Jhabua, Alirajpur and Dhar belt.

Gond painting belongs to the Gond people of the eastern districts of the state, chiefly Dindori and Mandla, where it began as a decoration of the mud wall and the floor and moved to paper and canvas in the late twentieth century.

The Kadaknath is a breed of fowl of the Jhabua and Alirajpur tribal belt in western Madhya Pradesh, with dark flesh, dark bones and a very low fat content, and it is reared by the Bhil and Bhilala families of the region.

Bagh print takes its name from the village of Bagh in Dhar district, where the Khatri families print cotton and silk with hand cut wooden blocks and dye it in vegetable colours, chiefly alizarin from the madder root for red and indigo for blue.

Ahilyabai Holkar ruled Malwa from Maheshwar in the eighteenth century and is credited with establishing the weaving of the town, bringing in weavers and having borders designed from the carving of the local temples and fort.

Maheshwar stands on the north bank of the Narmada in Khargone district and was the capital of Ahilyabai Holkar in the eighteenth century.

Chanderi lies in Ashoknagar district, in the Betwa belt on the old boundary between Malwa and Bundelkhand, and its weavers make the light, glossy, almost transparent Chanderi fabric in cotton, in silk and in the silk and cotton mix for which the town is best known.

Vishnu Prabhakar, who spent many years at Hisar and is counted among the writers of Haryana, wrote Awara Masiha, a biography of the Bengali novelist Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay built on years of travel and research, and it is the work for which he is best remembered.

Sant Garib Das of Chhudani, in the present Jhajjar district, founded the Garibdasi sect in the eighteenth century and left a very large body of devotional verse, collected as the Sat Granth, which is still recited by his followers.

One tradition places the birth of the Braj poet Surdas at Sihi, a village in Faridabad district, and Haryana claims him on that ground; other accounts place his birth at Runakta near Agra, so the question is always set as a tradition rather than as a settled fact.

Pandit Lakhmi Chand is the greatest of the Saang poets of Haryana, and his raginis are still sung across the state.

Hindi is the official language of Haryana, settled by the Haryana Official Language Act of 1969, and an amendment to that law in 2010 gave Punjabi the position of second official language of the state.

Mewati is the speech of the Mewat tract, which centres on Nuh district and extends into parts of Palwal and Faridabad and across the border into Rajasthan.

Ahirwati, also called Hirwati, is the speech of the Ahirwal tract in the south of the state, which covers Rewari, Mahendragarh and parts of Gurugram.

Bagri is spoken in the south-western corner of the state, in Sirsa and Fatehabad and parts of Hisar, where Haryana meets Rajasthan and Punjab, and it is close enough to Rajasthani speech that it is often described as a Rajasthani dialect carried into Haryana.