Static General Knowledge makes up the rest of the General Awareness section in RRB NTPC, and the notices name its topics: General Science and Life Science up to Class 10, History of India and the freedom struggle, Physical, Social and Economic Geography of India and the world, Indian Polity and Governance, Indian Economy, Art and Culture, Indian Literature, Monuments and Places, Flora and Fauna, Famous Personalities, the UN and other world organisations, environmental issues, Transport Systems in India, Important Government and Public Sector Organisations, Common Abbreviations, and Basics of Computers and Computer Applications. RRB frames these as short factual questions: the unit of a physical quantity, the year of a battle, the article of the Constitution, the river a city stands on, the full form of an abbreviation, the headquarters of an organisation. GK24's GK notes on this page cover each topic in English and Hindi, arranged the way the syllabus lists them, with the facts RRB tends to ask placed first. Work through one topic at a time, note the lists (national parks, dances, articles, schedules, awards), and pair each topic with its quiz on GK24 to check what has stayed with you.
Alauddin Khalji captured Chittor in 1303 and renamed the fort after his son. What name was given to it?
Alauddin Khalji besieged Chittor in 1303, defeated Rawal Ratan Singh and handed the fort to his son Khizr Khan, after whom it was renamed Khizrabad.
Read the full explanation →Which Mewar ruler recovered Chittor around 1326 and founded the Sisodia branch of the dynasty?
After Alauddin Khalji's capture of Chittor in 1303 the fort passed out of Guhil hands, and it was Rana Hammir who won it back about 1326.
Read the full explanation →Who commanded the Mughal army at the battle of Haldighati?
Akbar sent the Kachhwaha ruler of Amer, Man Singh I, to command at Haldighati, with Asaf Khan beside him. The detail matters in exams because it makes the battle a contest between two Rajput houses in different political positions: Amer had accepted the Mughal alliance, while Mewar refused it.
Read the full explanation →The battle of Haldighati between Maharana Pratap and the Mughal army was fought in which year?
The battle was fought on 18 June 1576 in the narrow pass of Haldighati near Khamnor, between Maharana Pratap of Mewar and Akbar's army.
Read the full explanation →Who founded the city of Udaipur, and in which year?
Udai Singh, saved in childhood by the nurse Panna Dhai from the usurper Banbir, founded a new capital in the valley beside Lake Pichola in 1559, moving the seat of Mewar away from the exposed hill fort of Chittorgarh.
Read the full explanation →The battle of Khanwa, fought in 1527, was between Babur and which Rajput ruler?
Sangram Singh, known as Rana Sanga, had built the widest Rajput confederacy of his age and met Babur at Khanwa near Bharatpur in 1527.
Read the full explanation →The Vijay Stambha inside Chittorgarh fort was built to commemorate a victory over which ruler?
Rana Kumbha built the nine-storeyed Tower of Victory inside Chittorgarh after his campaigns against the Malwa sultan Mahmud Khalji, which began in 1440.
Read the full explanation →Which ruler of Mewar built the Kumbhalgarh fort in the Aravalli range?
Kumbha, properly Kumbhakarna, ruled Mewar from 1433 to 1468 and is remembered above all as a builder of forts; Kumbhalgarh in the Aravallis carries his name and is today part of the Hill Forts of Rajasthan inscribed by UNESCO in 2013.
Read the full explanation →The centre of power of Indian politics shifted from Delhi to Poona in the period of which Peshwa?
Baji Rao I, Peshwa from 1720 to 1740, carried Maratha arms north of the Narmada and into Gujarat, Malwa and Bundelkhand, defeated the Nizam at Palkhed and reached the outskirts of Delhi, so that the initiative in Indian politics passed from the Mughal capital to Poona.
Read the full explanation →Madhya Bharat, formed in 1948, was made up chiefly of which states?
When the princely states were grouped after independence, the two large Maratha states and the small states of Malwa such as Dhar, Dewas, Ratlam and Jhabua were brought together in 1948 as Madhya Bharat, which lasted until the reorganisation of 1956.
Read the full explanation →The princely state of Rewa in Baghelkhand was ruled by which dynasty?
Rewa was the chief state of Baghelkhand, the region that takes its name from its Baghel Rajput rulers, and after independence it became the seat of Vindhya Pradesh before that unit was merged into Madhya Pradesh in 1956.
Read the full explanation →The princely state of Bhopal was founded in the early eighteenth century by
He was an Afghan soldier in the service of the later Mughals who built up a holding around Bhopal in the early eighteenth century, and his descendants ruled it as Nawabs until the state acceded to India.
Read the full explanation →Who signed the Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon with the British in 1803?
The second Anglo-Maratha war went against the Maratha chiefs, and in 1803 Daulat Rao Scindia signed the Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon, giving up territory and accepting the Company's terms.
Read the full explanation →The Treaty of Mandsaur of 1818 was signed between the British and which ruling house?
At the close of the third Anglo-Maratha war the Holkar state signed the Treaty of Mandsaur in 1818, accepting British protection and a subsidiary relationship, after which Indore settled into its position as a princely state of central India under the Central India Agency.
Read the full explanation →The Scindias moved their capital from Ujjain to which city?
The Scindia family's early centre in Malwa was Ujjain on the Shipra, and under Daulat Rao Scindia the seat of the state was moved to Gwalior, where the camp settlement of Lashkar below the hill fort grew into the modern city.
Read the full explanation →Which Maratha chief became the effective master of Delhi and the protector of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II after the third battle of Panipat?
After the Maratha defeat at Panipat in 1761, Mahadji Scindia of Gwalior rebuilt Maratha strength in the north, occupied Delhi, took the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II under his protection and held the real authority at the imperial court.
Read the full explanation →The Kashi Vishwanath temple at Varanasi was rebuilt in 1780 by which ruler?
The temple building and repair that Ahilyabai carried out from Maheshwar reached far beyond her own state, and the rebuilding of the Kashi Vishwanath temple at Varanasi in 1780 is the work most often asked.
Read the full explanation →Ahilyabai Holkar ruled the Holkar state from which town on the Narmada?
Ahilyabai, the widow of Khande Rao Holkar, governed the state from 1767 to 1795 and made Maheshwar on the north bank of the Narmada her capital, building the fort palace, the ghats and the temples that still stand there.
Read the full explanation →Who founded the Holkar state of Indore?
Malhar Rao was a cavalry commander in the service of Peshwa Baji Rao I during the Maratha conquest of Malwa, and in 1733 he was granted territory there, which became the Holkar state.
Read the full explanation →Jagdishpur, the seat of Veer Kunwar Singh, lies in which present-day district of Bihar?
Kunwar Singh's estate lay in the old district of Shahabad, whose headquarters was Arrah. Shahabad was later divided, and Jagdishpur together with Arrah falls in the present district of Bhojpur, which is why exam answers use Bhojpur for the modern district and Shahabad for the district of 1857.
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