Railway GK Questions 2026

Rathore, an army officer born at Jaisalmer, won the silver medal in men's double trap shooting at the Athens Olympics of 2004, which was then India's best individual Olympic result.

He commanded the company that held the post at Rezang La in Ladakh during the war of 1962 and was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for that action.

When trees were ordered to be felled at Khejarli in the Jodhpur state in 1730, Amrita Devi and the Bishnois of the village clasped the trees and were killed, and the episode has become the standard Indian example of community conservation; the state's wildlife protection award carries her name.

Bhatt, who belonged to Sirohi, followed the Gandhian programme of constructive work and led the movement in the princely states, and the state remembers him by this title.

Govind Guru led the Bhagat reform movement among the Bhils of the southern districts, and the gathering of his followers on Mangarh hill on 17 November 1913 was fired upon, an episode often described as a tribal counterpart of Jallianwala Bagh.

Kumbha of Mewar built the hill fort of Kumbhalgarh and raised the Vijay Stambh, the tower of victory, at Chittorgarh after his victory over Mahmud Khilji; he was also a scholar and wrote the Sangeet Raj.

Shekhawat, who had served as Chief Minister of Rajasthan, was elected Vice-President of India and held the office from 2002 to 2007, which makes him the best-known holder of a national constitutional post from the state.

Barhath composed the thirteen sorthas known as Chetawani ra Chungatya to persuade Maharana Fateh Singh of Mewar to stay away from the Delhi Durbar of 1903, and the verses are treated as a landmark of patriotic Rajasthani writing.

He took office on 7 April 1949, when the united state of Rajasthan was formed out of the princely states of Rajputana, and so heads the list of the state's Chief Ministers.

Jambheshwar, known as Jambhoji and born at Pipasar in 1451, founded the Bishnoi sect in 1485 and laid down the twenty-nine rules from which the sect takes its name, several of them forbidding the felling of green trees and the killing of animals.

Pathik, whose original name was Bhoop Singh, took charge of the agitation of the peasants of Bijolia in the Mewar state against heavy levies and forced labour, and turned a local grievance into the longest-running peasant movement of Rajasthan.

The office of Divisional Commissioner was abolished in Rajasthan in 1962 on the view that it was a needless layer between the state government and the district, and it was restored in 1987, when the state was arranged in six divisions.

Salumbar, one of the eight new districts retained after the review of December 2024, belongs to Udaipur division along with Udaipur, Banswara, Chittorgarh, Dungarpur, Pratapgarh and Rajsamand.

The Tropic of Cancer clips only the extreme southern tip of Rajasthan, crossing the districts of Banswara and Dungarpur, which is why almost the whole state lies in the sub-tropical zone.

Kota recorded a literacy rate of 76.56 per cent at the Census of 2011, the highest of any district in Rajasthan, well above the state figure of about 66 per cent.

At the Census of 2011 Jaisalmer recorded a density of about 17 persons per square kilometre, the lowest of any district in the state, because it is the largest district by area at 38,401 square kilometres and the thinnest in population at roughly 6.7 lakh.

The northernmost point of Rajasthan lies in Sri Ganganagar district, in the far north-west of the state where it meets Punjab and Pakistan.

Hanumangarh was separated from Sri Ganganagar on 12 July 1994 and became the thirty-first district of Rajasthan; both districts now sit in Bikaner division and both touch Punjab.

Only four districts of Rajasthan stand on the international boundary with Pakistan, and Jodhpur is not among them; it lies inland, east of the border districts, although it is a western district of the state.

Pratapgarh was formed on 26 January 2008 out of parts of Chittorgarh, Udaipur and Banswara, and was the thirty-third district of the state; it remained the newest district until the reorganisation of 2023.