Railway GK Questions 2026

The Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir adopted the State Constitution on 17 November 1956 and it came into force on 26 January 1957, the day the Assembly dissolved itself.

The Act created the Union Territory of Ladakh without a legislature, administered by a Lieutenant Governor, and carved it out with the two districts of Leh and Kargil; its first Lieutenant Governor was Radha Krishna Mathur.

The Act named an appointed day on which the State of Jammu and Kashmir would cease to exist and the two Union Territories would come into being, and the Union notified that day as 31 October 2019, the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, which is observed as National Unity…

The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954, issued by the President under Article 370(1)(d), added Article 35A at the end of Part III.

Tribal raiders backed by Pakistan entered the Kashmir valley in the third week of October 1947, and Maharaja Hari Singh of the Dogra dynasty signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947; Governor-General Lord Mountbatten accepted it the next day, after which Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar.

Article 370 was one of the articles of Part XXI of the Constitution, which is titled Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions, and its marginal heading read Temporary provisions with respect to the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

Rani Abbakka Chowta ruled Ullal near Mangaluru in the sixteenth century, when the Portuguese were trying to control the pepper and spice trade of the Malabar and Tulunadu coast, and she fought them for decades, which is why she is often called the first woman freedom fighter of the Indian…

Tarabai was the wife of Rajaram, the younger son of Shivaji, and the daughter of the Maratha commander Hambirrao Mohite.

Kittur Chennamma ruled the small state of Kittur in present Karnataka; when her son died, the Company refused to recognise her adopted son Shivalingappa as heir, and she resisted in arms in 1824, defeating the first British force before being overcome, so she is counted among the earliest rulers to…

Begum Hazrat Mahal was a wife of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, who had been deposed and sent to Calcutta in 1856.

Under this policy of Lord Dalhousie, a dependent princely state whose ruler died without a natural heir lapsed to the Company, and adoption was not accepted; Satara, Jaitpur, Sambalpur, Nagpur and Jhansi were taken over in this way, and Jhansi was annexed in 1854 after the death of Gangadhar Rao.

Lakshmibai was born at Varanasi in 1828 in a Marathi Brahmin family and was named Manikarnika, called Manu at home; she took the name Lakshmibai on her marriage to Gangadhar Rao, the ruler of Jhansi.

Chand Bibi, also called Chand Sultana, was the daughter of Hussain Nizam Shah of Ahmadnagar and the wife of Ali Adil Shah of Bijapur, and she acted as regent in both kingdoms.

Ahilyabai Holkar ruled from 1767 to 1795 and shifted her seat to Maheshwar on the north bank of the Narmada, which became a centre of administration, temple building and handloom weaving; the Maheshwari sari is still named after it.

Rani Durgavati ruled the Gond kingdom of Garha-Katanga, in the region of present Madhya Pradesh called Gondwana, and governed as regent for her young son after her husband death.

Rudramadevi was the daughter of the Kakatiya ruler Ganapatideva and ruled the Kakatiya kingdom of Warangal, in present Telangana, in the second half of the thirteenth century; she is one of the very few women to have governed a southern kingdom in her own name, and her grandson Prataparudra II…

Razia was the daughter of Iltutmish of the Slave or Mamluk dynasty, who nominated her over his sons, and she ruled Delhi from 1236 to 1240 with the title Jalalat-ud-din, the only woman to occupy that throne.

Anamudi, about 2,695 metres high, rises in the Anaimalai hills of the Idukki district of Kerala and is the highest peak of the Western Ghats and of the whole peninsular plateau south of the Himalayas; the Eravikulam National Park around it shelters the Nilgiri tahr.

Dhupgarh, about 1,350 metres high, stands in the Pachmarhi hills of Madhya Pradesh and is the highest peak of the Satpura range, which is a block mountain bounded by faults along the Narmada and the Tapi.

Residual or relict mountains are what is left when a plateau or an old mountain mass is worn down for a very long time and only the hardest rock stands out; the Nilgiri in the Western Ghats, Parasnath in Jharkhand, Girnar in Gujarat and the Rajmahal hills are the Indian…