SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The poligars were military chiefs of the Tirunelveli and Madurai region who held land in return for keeping troops.

The correct answer is A, Syed Ahmad Barelvi of Rae Bareli, who drew on the teachings of Shah Waliullah and organised the movement known in India as the Wahabi or Tariqah-i-Muhammadiya movement, with Patna as its Indian centre.

The movement called on Muslims to give up practices it held un-Islamic, and it soon turned into an organised resistance by Muslim peasants to the illegal cesses of Hindu zamindars and to indigo planters.

The Company wanted a road joining the Brahmaputra valley with Sylhet through Khasi territory, and brought in outside labour and troops to build it.

The subsidiary treaty with the Company had placed a crushing payment on Travancore and given its resident wide powers; Velu Thampi issued the Kundara Proclamation in 1809 asking the people of the state to take up arms.

When the Company refused to recognise her adopted son as heir and moved to annex the state, she took up arms in 1824, defeated the first British force sent against her and was captured in the second attack; her commander Sangolli Rayanna continued the struggle.

The Kol Uprising of 1831-32 spread over Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Palamau, Manbhum and Singhbhum in the Chhotanagpur plateau, and was led by Buddho Bhagat.

The rising spread through the Damin-i-Koh in the Rajmahal hills against zamindars, mahajans and the Company's police, and the Santhals declared Company rule at an end.

The paikas were a hereditary militia who held rent-free jagir land for their military service; the Company took that land, raised the revenue demand and abolished the cowrie currency, forcing payment in silver.

The Vellore Mutiny broke out on 10 July 1806 when sepoys of the Madras army in Vellore fort turned on their officers.

Anandamath, published in 1882, draws on the rebellion of wandering monks and fakirs in Bengal and Bihar that ran from about 1763 to 1800, and the song Vande Mataram first appeared in this novel.

Khushkhera, Bhiwadi and Neemrana lie in the Alwar and Khairthal-Tijara belt of north-eastern Rajasthan, close to the Delhi border and on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, and the region is already a cluster of automobile ancillary, electronics and Japanese-owned units.

Vikram Udyogpuri is an integrated industrial township developed near Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh as one of the state's two nodes in the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor.

The National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation, which was earlier the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation, is the implementing agency of the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme and functions under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade in that ministry.

Its three nodes are Ponneri in Tamil Nadu, Tumakuru in Karnataka and Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, and the corridor is developed with Japanese cooperation to link the engineering and automobile cluster of Chennai with the electronics and machine tool cluster of Bengaluru.

The Visakhapatnam Chennai stretch was taken up as its first phase, with nodes at Visakhapatnam, Machilipatnam, Donakonda and Srikalahasti-Chittoor.

The correct answer is B, the Asian Development Bank, which prepared the conceptual development plan for the corridor and has financed its infrastructure in Andhra Pradesh.

The Amritsar Kolkata Industrial Corridor uses this line as its spine and plans integrated manufacturing clusters as its nodes across seven states.

The Shendra-Bidkin Industrial Park lies near Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, formerly Aurangabad, and is developed as the Aurangabad Industrial City, from which the short name AURIC comes.

Dholera lies in the Ahmedabad district of Gujarat, on the Gulf of Khambhat, and is the largest greenfield node of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor, planned as an industrial city with its own expressway link to Ahmedabad and an airport.