Railway GK Questions 2026

Silappadikaram, the story of the anklet, is attributed to Ilango Adigal, who tradition calls the brother of the Chera king Senguttuvan, and Manimekalai, which continues the story in a Buddhist setting, is attributed to Sattanar, also known as Chithalai Chathanar.

Statement 1 is correct, because Rock Edicts II and XIII of Ashoka name the Cholas, Pandyas, Satiyaputras and Keralaputras as peoples on the southern frontier of the Mauryan empire, and this is the firmest early date available for the chapter.

The correct answer is C, Arikamedu, on the Ariyankuppam river near modern Puducherry, where excavation uncovered Roman pottery including Arretine ware, amphora sherds that once held wine and oil, and the remains of warehouses, marking it as a trading station of the first centuries of the Christian era.

The correct answer is A, Kurinji, the hilly and forested tract whose people lived by hunting and gathering.

The poems credit him with the victory at Venni, which broke the power of a Chera and Pandya alliance, with developing Puhar at the mouth of the Kaveri, and with the embankment raised across that river.

The work belongs to the Pathinenkilkanakku, the Eighteen Minor Works, and is the most widely quoted book of Tamil literature.

It is a work on Tamil grammar and poetics in three books, and because its sections on poetic conventions describe the land, the people and their occupations, historians use it as a source for Sangam society, including the five-fold division of land into kurinji, mullai, marutham, neithal and palai.

The early Cholas ruled from Uraiyur on the Kaveri and later made Puhar, also called Kaveripattinam, their capital and chief port; their emblem was the tiger.

The Sangam corpus is the oldest body of Tamil literature and includes the grammar Tolkappiyam, the Eight Anthologies, the Ten Idylls and the Eighteen Minor Works, all in Tamil.

The correct answer is A, Nedunjeliyan II, the Pandya king of Madurai who is remembered in Sangam poetry as the victor of the battle of Talaiyalanganam, in which he is said to have defeated a confederacy of the Chera and Chola kings and five lesser chieftains.

Engel's law, named after the nineteenth century statistician Ernst Engel, says that the share of a household's spending that goes on food falls as its income rises, even though the amount spent on food may well go up.

The cash reserve ratio is the proportion of a bank's net demand and time liabilities that it must keep as cash with the Reserve Bank of India, on which it earns no interest, and the statutory liquidity ratio is the proportion it must maintain in its own hands in the…

The Lorenz curve plots the cumulative share of income against the cumulative share of population, so a straight diagonal would mean perfect equality and the more the curve sags away from that line the greater the inequality.

It is the hardest condition for policy to handle, because the remedy for inflation is to squeeze demand while the remedy for unemployment is to expand it, so no single step cures both; the classic episode followed the oil price shocks of the nineteen seventies.

The fiscal deficit of a year contains the cost of servicing past borrowing as well as fresh spending, so taking out interest payments leaves the primary deficit, which shows how far the present year's expenditure exceeds its receipts on its own account.

Gross domestic product counts what is produced inside the domestic territory, whoever produces it, while gross national product counts what is produced by the normal residents of the country, wherever they are; the bridge between them is net factor income from abroad, which is the income Indians earn abroad minus…

Indian statistical practice treats persons aged fifteen to fifty-nine years as the working age population, and the labour force is made up of those among them who are either working or seeking and available for work.

The repo rate is the rate at which the Reserve Bank of India lends short-term money to commercial banks against the collateral of government securities under a repurchase agreement, which is where the name repo comes from; it is the policy rate announced by the Monetary Policy Committee and the…

It arises when the structure of the economy changes, so that the jobs being created need skills different from those the available workers possess; it lasts long and is cured by retraining and education rather than by a revival of demand.

Disguised unemployment, also called hidden unemployment, exists where more persons are engaged in a job than are actually needed, so withdrawing one of them would not reduce output at all; that worker's marginal contribution is therefore zero.