RRB Group D GK Questions 2026

Magadha lay on the southern bank of the Ganga, in the region of present day Patna, Gaya and Nalanda, with its early capital at Rajagriha among the hills and later at Pataliputra at the meeting of the Ganga and the Son.

The Pampas is the temperate grassland of Argentina and Uruguay, a flat and fertile region of wheat farming and cattle ranching.

Milpa is the local name for the slash and burn farming of Mexico, Guatemala and the neighbouring countries, in which a forest patch is cleared and burnt, cropped with maize, beans and squash for a few seasons and then left to recover.

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan, and formerly of Sakhalin and the Kuril islands.

The Maori are the Polynesian people who settled New Zealand before European contact. Their ceremonial war dance, the haka, is widely known, their meeting house is the marae, and the Maori language is one of the official languages of New Zealand, which they call Aotearoa.

The Inuit, earlier called Eskimo, live along the Arctic coasts of Greenland, Canada and Alaska. In winter they build the igloo, a dome of cut snow blocks, and in summer they live in the tupik, a tent of animal skin.

The Sami are the indigenous people of the far north of Norway, Sweden and Finland and of the Kola peninsula in Russia, a region often called Lapland.

The Bedouins are Arabic speaking nomads of the Arabian peninsula and the Syrian desert, who move with camels, sheep and goats between wells and seasonal pasture.

The Bushmen or San are hunter gatherers of the Kalahari desert, which lies across Botswana, Namibia and part of South Africa.

The Pygmy peoples, among them the Mbuti of the Ituri forest, the Baka and the Efe, live in the dense equatorial rainforest of Central Africa.

The Masai are semi nomadic cattle herders of the East African savanna grassland, living in and around the Great Rift Valley.

Kota recorded the highest literacy of any district of Rajasthan in 2011, which fits its character as an industrial and coaching city with a largely urban population.

The Kathodi are a small tribe who moved into Rajasthan from Maharashtra and live in the forest tracts of Udaipur, particularly Jhadol and Kotra.

The Garasia are the third largest tribe of Rajasthan and live on the southern slopes of the Aravalli, in the Abu Road and Pindwara tracts of Sirohi and in Kotra and Jhadol in Udaipur, with some in Pali.

A Bhil settlement of scattered houses on a hill slope is a pal, and its headman is the gameti, who settles disputes and represents the group; a cluster of such settlements under a larger chief was led by a tadvi.

The Sahariya live in the Shahabad and Kishanganj tehsils of Baran district in south eastern Rajasthan, a forested tract on the edge of the Hadoti plateau.

Banswara, in the Wagad region of southern Rajasthan, has the largest share of Scheduled Tribes in its population, the great majority of them Bhil, and the whole district lies in the Scheduled Areas notified under the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution.

The Mina or Meena are the largest Scheduled Tribe of Rajasthan by population, spread across the eastern districts of Jaipur, Dausa, Sawai Madhopur, Karauli and Alwar, and they were traditionally grouped into the Zamindar Mina and the Chaukidar Mina.

Jaisalmer was both the largest district of Rajasthan by area and the smallest by population in 2011, so its density was the lowest in the state, a figure in the teens against the state average of 201.

The sex ratio is the number of females per thousand males, and Rajasthan recorded 928 in 2011, below the national figure of that census.