Railway GK Questions 2026

The Battle of Khanwa was fought on 17 March 1527 near Fatehpur Sikri, where Babur used his artillery and the tulughma flanking movement to break the Rajput confederacy led by Maharana Sanga.

At Orchha, the Bundela capital on the Betwa in Niwari district, the Ram Raja temple is a palace that became a shrine, and Rama is honoured there as a ruling king rather than only as a deity, with a daily guard of honour.

Amarkantak, in Anuppur district, stands where the Maikal range joins the Vindhyas and the Satpuras, and both the Narmada and the Son rise there.

The Sharda Devi temple stands on the Trikuta hill at Maihar in Satna district, and pilgrims climb more than a thousand steps to reach it.

The core of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, in Raisen district, was raised in brick by Ashoka in the third century BCE, and the stone casing and the railing were added later.

Bhoja, who ruled from Dhar in the eleventh century and is remembered as a scholar king, began the Bhojeshwar temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district on the Betwa.

It is the largest and most developed of the Khajuraho temples, built in the western group under the Chandela ruler Vidyadhara in the early eleventh century, and it shows the Nagara plan at its fullest, with a cluster of smaller shikharas rising like foothills to the main spire over the…

The Chandela rulers of Jejakabhukti built the Khajuraho group in Chhatarpur district between about 950 and 1050 CE, in the Nagara style with clustered shikharas rising over the sanctum.

Omkareshwar is on the island of Mandhata in the Narmada, in Khandwa district, and the island is said to take the shape of the syllable Om, from which the name comes.

The jyotirlinga at Ujjain is installed facing south, which is why it is called Dakshinamukhi, and it is the only one of the twelve with that orientation.

Mahakaleshwar stands at Ujjain on the bank of the Shipra and is the only south-facing jyotirlinga, known for the Bhasma Aarti performed before dawn.

The inscription is cut into the rock on the Tosham hill in Bhiwani district and is written in Brahmi characters of the Gupta age, which makes it one of the oldest written records found in the state.

Narnaul, in Mahendragarh district, is the richest small town in the state for sixteenth and seventeenth century building.

The Asigarh fort, also called the Hansi fort, stands on a high mound in Hansi town of Hisar district and is associated in local tradition with Prithviraj Chauhan, whose family held the region before the battles of Tarain.

Surajkund is a semicircular embankment of stone steps around a reservoir in the Aravalli foothills of Faridabad district, attributed to the Tomar king Surajpal of about the tenth century, from whom it takes its name.

Jyotisar lies a short distance from Kurukshetra town on the road to Pehowa, and an ancient banyan there is pointed out as the spot of the discourse, with a chariot sculpture and a tank beside it.

Fidai Khan, a foster brother of Aurangzeb who served as a governor and builder in his reign, laid out the garden at Pinjore in Panchkula district in the charbagh tradition, using the natural slope of the Shivalik foothills to carry water down a series of terraces with pavilions on them.

Babur had the Kabuli Bagh mosque raised at Panipat to mark his victory over Ibrahim Lodi in the first battle of Panipat in 1526, and tradition says it was named after his queen Mussammat Kabuli Begum.

The tomb stands on a mound at Thanesar, built in marble and sandstone with a tall Persian dome in a walled garden, and the resemblance to a small Mughal mausoleum has earned it the name Taj Mahal of Haryana.

He founded the town in 1354 and called it Hisar-e-Firoza, the fort of Firoz, and built a palace complex there that still holds the Gujari Mahal and the Lat ki Masjid, a mosque that reuses an older pillar shaft.