SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Bhatkhande was the musicologist who collected and notated Hindustani compositions and arranged the ragas into the ten thaat system still taught in schools.

Ustad Bismillah Khan of Varanasi took the shehnai, until then an instrument of weddings and temple gateways, on to the concert platform and made it a solo classical instrument.

Nautanki grew into two recognised styles, the Hathras style in which the sung music and the verse metres dominate and the audience comes for the singing, and the Kanpur style in which dialogue, acting and stagecraft carry more of the play.

Ramlila is a living performance tradition rather than a building or a document, so it was inscribed in 2008 on the list that UNESCO maintains for intangible heritage, the same list that carries Kutiyattam, Vedic chanting and Ramman from India.

Charkula is danced in the Braj country around Mathura, where a woman balances a tiered wooden pyramid hung with rows of lighted earthen lamps, traditionally counted as one hundred and eight, on her head and moves to Rasiya songs of Krishna.

Nautanki is played on an open platform to an audience of hundreds, often through the whole night, so it needs an instrument that carries.

The Lucknow gharana of Kathak took shape in the court of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh, who was himself a dancer and a composer of thumris under the pen name Akhtarpiya.

The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 ended the hereditary office of Rajpramukh, which had been filled by a former ruler, and replaced it with a Governor appointed by the President in the ordinary way under the Constitution.

When Udaipur joined the Rajasthan Union on 18 April 1948 the enlarged body was named the United State of Rajasthan, with Udaipur as capital, the Maharana of Udaipur as Rajpramukh and Manikya Lal Verma, the founder of the Mewar Praja Mandal, as Prime Minister.

The seventh stage, on 1 November 1956, brought the Abu Road tehsil from Bombay state into Rajasthan, together with Ajmer-Merwara and the Sunel Tappa area, and this is how Mount Abu became a part of Rajasthan.

The sixth stage of the integration fell on the day the Constitution came into force: Sirohi was merged and the unit was for the first time simply named Rajasthan.

The Rajasthan Union of 25 March 1948, the second stage, joined nine states of the south and east: Banswara, Bundi, Dungarpur, Jhalawar, Kishangarh, Kota, Pratapgarh, Shahpura and Tonk.

Hiralal Shastri, a leader of the Jaipur Praja Mandal who had led its satyagraha in 1939, took charge as the first Prime Minister of Greater Rajasthan in 1949, the office that later came to be called Chief Minister.

Greater Rajasthan, the fourth stage of the integration, brought Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner and Jaisalmer into the earlier United State of Rajasthan, and Sardar Patel inaugurated it at Jaipur on 30 March 1949.

Gokul Bhai Bhatt founded the Sirohi Praja Mandal in 1939, lived the plain Gandhian life of khadi and constructive work, and is therefore called the Gandhi of Rajasthan.

The Marwar Praja Mandal was founded at Jodhpur in 1934 by Jai Narayan Vyas, who had already worked through the Marwar Hitkarini Sabha of the 1920s. He led its campaign for civil liberties and against the state tenancy law, was jailed repeatedly, and later became the Chief Minister of Rajasthan.

The Matsya Union, the first stage of the integration of Rajasthan, was formed on 18 March 1948 out of only four princely states of the eastern edge of Rajputana: Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur and Karauli.

The temples of Khajuraho stand in Chhatarpur district in the Bundelkhand region, and the dance festival is held among them in February, when dancers of Bharatanatyam, Odissi, Kathak, Kuchipudi and the other classical forms perform against the temple walls.

Karma is danced by the Gond and Baiga of the eastern and southern districts after the harvest, men and women moving in a circle to the mandar drum, and Saila is the stick dance in which young men form rows and strike their sticks together as they move.

Gwalior had been a seat of music since the Tomar rulers patronised dhrupad, and when khayal took the place of dhrupad as the leading form the city produced the first of its gharanas.