SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Rai Singh of Bikaner was a leading general of Akbar, served in Gujarat and the Deccan, and used the wealth and prestige of that service to raise the Junagarh fort in 1589 on the plain beside his capital.

In 1562 Bharmal of Amer, pressed by rivals and by imperial officers in the region, offered his submission to Akbar and sealed it with a marriage alliance; his daughter, known as Mariam-uz-Zamani, became the mother of Jahangir.

He decided that the cramped hill capital of Amer could not hold a growing state, and in 1727 he laid out Jaipur on level ground as a planned city of straight streets and rectangular blocks, with Vidyadhar Bhattacharya as its planner.

Rao Bika was a son of Rao Jodha of Marwar, and he moved north into the Jangladesh tract with his uncle Kandhal and carved out a new state there, naming his capital after himself in 1488.

Bhimbetka, in Raisen district, was inscribed in 2003 for its prehistoric paintings, which cover a span from the Upper Palaeolithic to the historical period in a single group of shelters.

The fort on the long sandstone hill at Gwalior holds the Teli ka Mandir of the Pratihara period, the Sas-Bahu temples, the Gujari Mahal built by Man Singh Tomar for Mrignayani and the Man Mandir palace of the same ruler, with its tiled decoration.

The Udayagiri caves lie on a hill near Vidisha, not far from Sanchi, and belong to the Gupta period; the great relief of Vishnu as Varaha lifting the earth goddess is carved there, and an inscription of the reign of Chandragupta II records the visit of one of his officers.

The temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district, with its single enormous linga cut from one stone, is attributed to the eleventh-century Paramara ruler Bhoj of Dhar, the same king remembered for his learning and for the lake he is said to have built at Bhopal.

Mandu, in Dhar district, was the hill capital of the Malwa sultans, and its buildings include the Jahaz Mahal, set between two tanks so that it seems to float like a ship, the sloping-walled Hindola Mahal or swinging palace, the Jama Masjid, the pavilion of Rani Roopmati and the marble…

The relic caskets of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the two chief disciples of the Buddha, were recovered from Stupa 3 at Sanchi, which stands north-east of the Great Stupa and has a single torana.

The Khajuraho temples are classic north Indian Nagara temples: they stand on a high platform without a boundary wall or gateway, they have a curving shikhara over the sanctum with smaller shikharas clustered around it, and their halls run in a line from the entrance to the garbhagriha.

The archaeologist Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar noticed the shelters in the Vindhyan foothills of Raisen district in 1957 and began the study of their paintings, made in red and white ochre and showing hunters, dancers, animals and later riders with weapons.

The core of Stupa 1 at Sanchi, in Raisen district, was raised in the third century BCE in Ashoka's reign, with the Ashokan pillar carrying the schism edict beside it.

Built in the reign of Vidyadhara, it is the tallest and most fully worked out of the Khajuraho temples, with the complete sequence of ardhamandapa, mandapa, antarala and garbhagriha, a cluster of subsidiary shikharas rising towards the main one, and bands of sculpture over its walls.

The Chandelas of Jejakabhukti built the Khajuraho group in Chhatarpur district between about 950 and 1050 CE, and the names of their rulers are tied to individual temples: Yashovarman to the Lakshmana temple and Vidyadhara to the Kandariya Mahadeva.

Lajpat Rai started his legal practice at Hisar in 1886, took part in the municipal and Arya Samaj work of the town and in early Congress organisation there, and only later moved to Lahore, from where he became a national figure.

The large cantonment at Ambala, on the road from Delhi to the hills, reported restiveness among its sepoys in May 1857, and some accounts place signs of it even before the outbreak at Meerut on 10 May.

He began the weekly Haryana Tilak in 1923 to give the national movement in the Haryana districts a newspaper of its own, since the region's news was otherwise carried only in the Lahore papers.

Chhotu Ram helped found the Unionist Party of Punjab with Fazl-i-Husain, a party of landholders and peasants across community lines, and as a minister he carried measures for the indebted cultivator, among them the Punjab Relief of Indebtedness Act of 1934.

Chhotu Ram, born at Garhi Sampla in Rohtak district on 24 November 1881 and honoured as Deenbandhu, started the Urdu weekly Jat Gazette in 1916 to carry the case of the indebted peasant, and he used it for the rest of his career alongside his work in the Punjab legislature…