SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

After the invasion of Timur shattered Tughlaq authority, Malik Sarwar, who held the title Malik us Sharq or lord of the east, made Jaunpur independent in 1394, and his successors ruled as the Sharqis until 1479.

Firoz Shah Tughlaq founded Jaunpur in 1359 and named it after his cousin and predecessor Muhammad bin Tughlaq, whose earlier name was Juna Khan.

Chandawar lies on the Yamuna near present day Firozabad, and the battle fought there in 1194 ended the power of the Gahadavala ruler Jaichand, who was killed.

Arjan Singh led the Indian Air Force during the 1965 war and was raised to the five star rank of Marshal of the Indian Air Force in 2002, the only officer of the Air Force ever to hold it.

Army Day marks the day in 1949 when Lieutenant General K. M. Cariappa took over as the first Indian Commander in Chief of the Indian Army from the last British holder of the post.

The Indian Naval Academy stands on the coast at Ezhimala in Kannur district of Kerala and is the basic training establishment for officer cadets of the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard.

The motto is taken from the Bhagavad Gita and is translated as touch the sky with glory.

The Garhwal Rifles has its regimental centre at Lansdowne, a cantonment town in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, and the regiment carries the motto Yudhaya Krit Nishchay.

The Madras Regiment traces its raising to 1758 and is accepted as the senior most and oldest infantry regiment of the Indian Army.

In the common ladder of the three services the Army Brigadier, the Navy Commodore and the Air Force Air Commodore occupy the same step.

The three services keep parallel ladders so that officers of equal standing can work together. At that level the Army has a Colonel, the Navy a Captain and the Air Force a Group Captain.

Article 53 of the Constitution vests the supreme command of the defence forces of the Union in the President, to be exercised in accordance with law.

Field Marshal is the five star rank of the Indian Army and stands above every other rank. It is ceremonial and is conferred only as a rare honour, and the officer who holds it never retires but remains on the active list of the Army for life.

The deposits around Didwana in Nagaur district, especially at Singi Talav, have produced a long sequence of Palaeolithic tools including hand axes and cleavers, and the area is one of the key localities for the study of the Stone Age in western India.

On the hill called Bijak ki Pahadi at Bairath in Jaipur district, excavations begun by Daya Ram Sahni brought to light a round shrine built of brick and timber with a small stupa at its centre and a circular passage for circumambulation, counted among the earliest circular Buddhist structures known…

Balathal in Udaipur district and Gilund in Rajsamand district stand in the Banas basin of southern Rajasthan and share the Black and Red Ware, the copper working and the stone and mud brick houses of the Ahar culture, named after its type site at Ahar in Udaipur.

Rairh produced one of the largest hoards of punch marked silver coins reported from Rajasthan, along with Malava coins and great heaps of iron slag that show smelting was carried on there over a long period.

Ganeshwar lies on the Kantli river in Sikar district in the Shekhawati region, close to the copper bearing rocks of the Khetri belt.

Bairath, also called Viratnagar, in Jaipur district is the chief Mauryan site of Rajasthan.

Bagor stands on the Kothari river in Bhilwara district and was excavated by V. N. Misra. The site produced thousands of tiny stone tools called microliths, along with human burials and large numbers of animal bones, among them sheep and goat, which are read as evidence for early herding.