SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

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.

In slash-and-burn farming the felled trees and undergrowth are dried and burnt on the spot, and the ash left behind is rich in potash and other mineral nutrients, which the cultivator depends on because no chemical fertiliser or farmyard manure is used.

The Mediterranean climate, with its hot dry summer and mild wet winter, suits the vine better than almost any other region, and the lands around the Mediterranean sea, together with California, central Chile, the Cape region of South Africa and parts of southern Australia, are the world's great wine-producing areas…

The kolkhoz was the collective farm of the former Soviet Union, in which land, implements, livestock and labour were pooled and the farm worked under state direction with production targets fixed by the plan; the state farm, worked wholly by wage earners, was called the sovkhoz.

Where population is dense and holdings have been divided by inheritance over generations, as in India, China, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Indonesia, the farmer puts in abundant labour, manure and irrigation water on a tiny field and takes more than one crop a year.

Sericulture is the rearing of silkworms on mulberry or other host leaves for the production of raw silk, and it is an allied activity of farming that supports lakhs of rural households in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam and Jammu and Kashmir.

Dry farming, also called dryland farming, is the practice of raising crops without irrigation in areas of low and uncertain rainfall, and the conventional limit used in Indian geography is an annual rainfall of about seventy-five centimetres.

The correct answer is C, Indonesia and Malaysia, where the forest clearings of the equatorial islands are called ladang and are cropped with dry rice, maize and root crops for a few seasons.

The correct answer is B, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, where the hill communities of the Eastern Ghats call shifting cultivation podu.

Jhum, also written jhoom, is the local name of shifting cultivation in Assam and the hill states of the north-east, where a forest patch on a slope is cleared, burnt and cropped for two or three years before being left fallow.

Milpa is the local name given to the slash-and-burn system of the Mexican and Central American forests, where maize, beans and squash are grown together on a burnt forest clearing for a few seasons.

A plantation crop is a single cash crop grown on a large estate with heavy capital, hired labour and processing of the produce on or near the estate, and coffee, grown in the hills of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, is a classic example along with tea, rubber and sugarcane.

Olericulture is the branch of horticulture that deals with vegetables, covering their production in the field, their storage, their processing and their marketing, and it is the branch on which market gardening and truck farming rest.

The pea's ovary is made of one carpel whose two margins fuse to form a ridge, and the ovules are arranged in two rows along that ridge; this is marginal placentation, and it is why the pod opens to show a single row of seeds on each side.