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 battle of Haldighati between Maharana Pratap and the Mughal army was fought in which year?
The battle was fought on 18 June 1576 in the narrow pass of Haldighati near Khamnor, between Maharana Pratap of Mewar and Akbar's army.
Read the full explanation →Who founded the city of Udaipur, and in which year?
Udai Singh, saved in childhood by the nurse Panna Dhai from the usurper Banbir, founded a new capital in the valley beside Lake Pichola in 1559, moving the seat of Mewar away from the exposed hill fort of Chittorgarh.
Read the full explanation →The battle of Khanwa, fought in 1527, was between Babur and which Rajput ruler?
Sangram Singh, known as Rana Sanga, had built the widest Rajput confederacy of his age and met Babur at Khanwa near Bharatpur in 1527.
Read the full explanation →The Vijay Stambha inside Chittorgarh fort was built to commemorate a victory over which ruler?
Rana Kumbha built the nine-storeyed Tower of Victory inside Chittorgarh after his campaigns against the Malwa sultan Mahmud Khalji, which began in 1440.
Read the full explanation →Which ruler of Mewar built the Kumbhalgarh fort in the Aravalli range?
Kumbha, properly Kumbhakarna, ruled Mewar from 1433 to 1468 and is remembered above all as a builder of forts; Kumbhalgarh in the Aravallis carries his name and is today part of the Hill Forts of Rajasthan inscribed by UNESCO in 2013.
Read the full explanation →The centre of power of Indian politics shifted from Delhi to Poona in the period of which Peshwa?
Baji Rao I, Peshwa from 1720 to 1740, carried Maratha arms north of the Narmada and into Gujarat, Malwa and Bundelkhand, defeated the Nizam at Palkhed and reached the outskirts of Delhi, so that the initiative in Indian politics passed from the Mughal capital to Poona.
Read the full explanation →Madhya Bharat, formed in 1948, was made up chiefly of which states?
When the princely states were grouped after independence, the two large Maratha states and the small states of Malwa such as Dhar, Dewas, Ratlam and Jhabua were brought together in 1948 as Madhya Bharat, which lasted until the reorganisation of 1956.
Read the full explanation →The princely state of Rewa in Baghelkhand was ruled by which dynasty?
Rewa was the chief state of Baghelkhand, the region that takes its name from its Baghel Rajput rulers, and after independence it became the seat of Vindhya Pradesh before that unit was merged into Madhya Pradesh in 1956.
Read the full explanation →The princely state of Bhopal was founded in the early eighteenth century by
He was an Afghan soldier in the service of the later Mughals who built up a holding around Bhopal in the early eighteenth century, and his descendants ruled it as Nawabs until the state acceded to India.
Read the full explanation →Who signed the Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon with the British in 1803?
The second Anglo-Maratha war went against the Maratha chiefs, and in 1803 Daulat Rao Scindia signed the Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon, giving up territory and accepting the Company's terms.
Read the full explanation →The Treaty of Mandsaur of 1818 was signed between the British and which ruling house?
At the close of the third Anglo-Maratha war the Holkar state signed the Treaty of Mandsaur in 1818, accepting British protection and a subsidiary relationship, after which Indore settled into its position as a princely state of central India under the Central India Agency.
Read the full explanation →The Scindias moved their capital from Ujjain to which city?
The Scindia family's early centre in Malwa was Ujjain on the Shipra, and under Daulat Rao Scindia the seat of the state was moved to Gwalior, where the camp settlement of Lashkar below the hill fort grew into the modern city.
Read the full explanation →Which Maratha chief became the effective master of Delhi and the protector of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II after the third battle of Panipat?
After the Maratha defeat at Panipat in 1761, Mahadji Scindia of Gwalior rebuilt Maratha strength in the north, occupied Delhi, took the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II under his protection and held the real authority at the imperial court.
Read the full explanation →The Kashi Vishwanath temple at Varanasi was rebuilt in 1780 by which ruler?
The temple building and repair that Ahilyabai carried out from Maheshwar reached far beyond her own state, and the rebuilding of the Kashi Vishwanath temple at Varanasi in 1780 is the work most often asked.
Read the full explanation →Ahilyabai Holkar ruled the Holkar state from which town on the Narmada?
Ahilyabai, the widow of Khande Rao Holkar, governed the state from 1767 to 1795 and made Maheshwar on the north bank of the Narmada her capital, building the fort palace, the ghats and the temples that still stand there.
Read the full explanation →Who founded the Holkar state of Indore?
Malhar Rao was a cavalry commander in the service of Peshwa Baji Rao I during the Maratha conquest of Malwa, and in 1733 he was granted territory there, which became the Holkar state.
Read the full explanation →Jagdishpur, the seat of Veer Kunwar Singh, lies in which present-day district of Bihar?
Kunwar Singh's estate lay in the old district of Shahabad, whose headquarters was Arrah. Shahabad was later divided, and Jagdishpur together with Arrah falls in the present district of Bhojpur, which is why exam answers use Bhojpur for the modern district and Shahabad for the district of 1857.
Read the full explanation →The Santhal rebellion of 1855-56, which preceded the revolt of 1857 in the region, was led by which pair of brothers?
The Santhal rebellion, the Hul, broke out in 1855 in the Damin-i-Koh region of the Rajmahal hills, then in Bihar, and was led by the brothers Sido and Kanhu Murmu against moneylenders, zamindars and the Company's officers.
Read the full explanation →After the death of Veer Kunwar Singh, who led the revolt in Shahabad?
He took over the command in Shahabad after 26 April 1858 and kept the struggle alive in the district for several months, moving through the forests with the remaining rebels, and he was the last leader of the revolt in Bihar whom the British had to hunt down.
Read the full explanation →Pir Ali Khan, hanged in July 1857 and remembered as the martyr of Patna, worked as a
Pir Ali Khan kept a bookshop at Patna which served as a meeting place for those planning the rising, and he led the attack of 3 July 1857 in the city.
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