SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

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.

Bharatpur was made the seventh division of Rajasthan on 4 June 2005, joining the six that already existed.

Jodhpur division holds eight districts, namely Jodhpur, Barmer, Balotra, Jaisalmer, Jalore, Pali, Phalodi and Sirohi, which is more than any other division of the state.

The districts of Rajasthan are grouped into seven divisions, with headquarters at Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Kota, Bikaner, Bharatpur and Udaipur, and each is headed by a Divisional Commissioner.

Both were officials, not elected members: Rau was the Constitutional Adviser and Mukherjee the Chief Draftsman of the Constituent Assembly.

No Directive Principle asks the State to protect personal laws; on the contrary, Article 44 asks it to secure a Uniform Civil Code for all citizens.

The Treaty of Yandabo was signed on 24 February 1826 and ended the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826). The war began in 1824 after Burmese expansion into Assam, Manipur and Cachar brought Burma into conflict with the East India Company's Bengal frontier; Lord Amherst was the Governor-General.

CORAS, the Commando for Railway Security, is the special commando unit raised by the RPF of Indian Railways in 2019.

Planting trees helps recharge groundwater: roots and leaf litter slow the run-off and let rain soak into the soil and down to the aquifers.

Canada has vast land and a small farming population, so it practises large-scale, mechanised commercial grain farming, not intensive subsistence farming.