Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC CHSL. Of the 25 questions in Tier-I and the 20 in Tier-II, most come from Indian Polity, History, Geography, the Economy and General Science, the areas the CHSL 2026 notice lists as History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries. The level is that of Class 12, so the questions are direct: which article, which river, which ruler, which year. Polity asks about parts and schedules of the Constitution, fundamental rights, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and constitutional bodies. History covers the Indus Valley, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Sultanate and Mughal periods, and the freedom struggle from 1857 to 1947. Geography asks about rivers, soils, climate, national parks, minerals and world physical features. The Economy part asks about budget terms, the RBI, banking and basic concepts. General Science is school-level Physics, Chemistry and Biology with everyday applications, and Culture covers dances, festivals, monuments and books. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CHSL, written as short facts and tables so a topic can be revised in one sitting. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained.
The Charkula dance belongs to which region of Uttar Pradesh?
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.
Read the full explanation →Which instrument dominates a Nautanki performance?
Nautanki is played on an open platform to an audience of hundreds, often through the whole night, so it needs an instrument that carries.
Read the full explanation →Which gharana of Kathak developed in the court of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh?
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.
Read the full explanation →Who became the first Governor of Rajasthan when the post of Rajpramukh was abolished in 1956?
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.
Read the full explanation →Manikya Lal Verma was the Prime Minister of which of these unions?
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.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was added to Rajasthan under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956?
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.
Read the full explanation →Sirohi, excluding Abu and Delwara, was merged into Rajasthan on
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.
Read the full explanation →The capital of the Rajasthan Union formed on 25 March 1948 was
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.
Read the full explanation →Who became the first head of government, then styled Prime Minister, of Greater Rajasthan in 1949?
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.
Read the full explanation →Greater Rajasthan was inaugurated at Jaipur on 30 March 1949 by
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.
Read the full explanation →Which leader of the Praja Mandal movement is known as the Gandhi of Rajasthan?
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.
Read the full explanation →Who founded the Marwar Praja Mandal in 1934?
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.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following states was NOT a part of the Matsya Union formed on 18 March 1948?
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.
Read the full explanation →The Khajuraho Dance Festival, devoted to Indian classical dance, is held in which district?
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.
Read the full explanation →Karma and Saila are the dances chiefly of which communities of Madhya Pradesh?
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.
Read the full explanation →Which is the oldest gharana of khayal singing in Hindustani classical music?
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.
Read the full explanation →Baba Alauddin Khan, the sarod master who taught Ravi Shankar, belonged to which gharana named after a town of Madhya Pradesh?
Baba Alauddin Khan spent the greater part of his life as court musician at Maihar in the east of the state and gave his name to the Maihar gharana of instrumental music.
Read the full explanation →Maach is the traditional folk theatre of which region of Madhya Pradesh?
Maach is the folk theatre of Malwa, played through the night on a raised wooden platform, which is what the name itself means.
Read the full explanation →The Rai dance, performed by a Bedni dancer to the nagariya drum, belongs to which region of Madhya Pradesh?
Rai is the signature dance of Bundelkhand in the north-east of the state, danced by a woman of the Bedni community who whirls to an accelerating beat of the nagariya and the mridang while the audience calls for more.
Read the full explanation →The Matki dance, performed by women with an earthen pot balanced on the head, belongs to which region?
Matki is danced by the women of Malwa and the adjoining Nimar at weddings and other family celebrations, with an earthen pot held on the head while the dancer turns to the beat of the dhol.
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