RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

Asaf-ud-Daula of Awadh had the Bara Imambara built at Lucknow in 1784 as a famine relief work, so that labourers could earn wages through a year of scarcity.

Barsana, remembered as Radha's village, holds the best known Lathmar Holi, in which the women of Barsana playfully beat back the men who come from Nandgaon with long sticks, and the play is repeated the next day at Nandgaon.

The Prayag Prashasti, also called the Allahabad pillar inscription, was composed in Sanskrit by Harisena, a minister and court poet of Samudragupta.

Akbar built the fort at the confluence in 1583 and renamed the town Illahabas, from which the name Allahabad came; the city was renamed Prayagraj in 2018.

Mathura, on the right bank of the Yamuna, is revered as the place where Krishna was born in the prison of Kansa, and the Krishna Janmabhoomi complex marks the spot.

The Kashi Vishwanath temple at Varanasi is the jyotirlinga of Uttar Pradesh. It stands in the old city close to the Ganga, a short walk from the Dashashwamedh ghat where the evening Ganga Aarti is held.

At Prayagraj the Yamuna joins the Ganga, and tradition holds that the Saraswati flows there unseen, so the meeting point is called the Triveni Sangam, the braid of three streams.

After attaining enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, the Buddha walked to the deer park at Sarnath, near Varanasi, and preached to the five companions who had earlier left him.

Worn down by Maratha demands and Pindari raids, the Rajput states turned to the East India Company under Lord Hastings, and Charles Metcalfe negotiated the terms.

The Battle of Tunga was fought in 1787 near Lalsot in present Dausa district, where Maharaja Pratap Singh of Jaipur and Maharaja Vijay Singh of Jodhpur joined to resist Scindia's demands for tribute.

After Sawai Jai Singh II died, his sons Ishwari Singh and Madho Singh fought over Jaipur. Ishwari Singh won the Battle of Rajmahal in 1747, but Madho Singh brought in Maratha help, chiefly Malhar Rao Holkar of Indore, and won the Battle of Bagru in 1748.

By the 1730s Maratha armies were pressing into Rajputana for chauth and tribute, and Jai Singh II called the rulers to Hurda, in present Bhilwara district, in 1734.

Maharaja Jaswant Singh of Marwar died at Jamrud in 1678, and Aurangzeb tried to take the state under direct Mughal control.

Amar Singh I, the son and successor of Maharana Pratap, fought Mughal columns for years before accepting terms in 1615 in Jahangir's reign.

The Battle of Haldighati was fought on 18 June 1576 in the pass near Khamnor in Rajsamand district.

Akbar laid siege to Chittorgarh in 1567 and took it in February 1568. Maharana Udai Singh II had withdrawn to the hills, leaving the fort to Jaimal of Merta and Patta of Kelwa, who died fighting; Akbar was impressed enough to set up their statues at the Agra fort gate.

In 1562 Bharmal of the Kachhwaha house met Akbar at Sanganer, accepted Mughal overlordship and sealed it with a matrimonial alliance; the princess who went to the Mughal household is remembered as the mother of Jahangir.

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.