SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is D, because Jorwe is a Chalcolithic site in Maharashtra that gives its name to the Jorwe culture, not to the Malwa culture, which is named after its own region in Madhya Pradesh and is represented by Navdatoli, Eran and Nagda.

The north-western hill belt of the Sulaiman and Kirthar ranges holds Mehrgarh in the Bolan valley, the earliest village of the subcontinent, where wheat and barley were grown and cattle, sheep and goat were kept about eight thousand years ago.

At this Chalcolithic settlement on the Ghod river in Maharashtra the dead were buried within the habitation area, laid out straight with the head pointing north, and pots with food and water were placed beside them.

The rock shelters of Bhimbetka in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh were occupied from the Lower Palaeolithic onwards, and their lower layers have yielded hand axes and cleavers along with the earliest of their paintings.

The Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age is the first and by far the longest phase of prehistory, the time of hunting and food gathering, of hand axes, cleavers, flakes and burins, and of people who had neither agriculture nor pottery.

The Dandi March of 1930 was a protest against the British salt tax, and common salt is sodium chloride, NaCl.

Arabica, Robusta and Liberica are the main species of the coffee plant, Coffea, grown around the world. Arabica (Coffea arabica) gives a milder, more aromatic coffee and grows best on cool hill slopes at higher altitudes.

This statement is wrong: biogas is renewable, because the cattle dung, crop waste and kitchen waste it is made from are produced again and again.

The water at the bottom warms, becomes lighter and rises, while cooler water sinks to take its place, and these convection currents carry heat through the pot.

Article 15(2) says no citizen can be denied access to, or the use of, wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of State funds, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.

Digestion begins in the mouth, where saliva adds salivary amylase to the food as it is chewed. Salivary amylase, also called ptyalin, starts breaking starch into maltose while food is still in the mouth.

The stinging hairs on nettle leaves inject methanoic acid, also called formic acid, into the skin, which causes the burning pain.

Starlight bends as it passes through air layers of changing density, and because these layers keep moving, the star seems to flicker.

The laws passed between 1948 and the middle of the nineteen fifties ended zamindari, jagirdari and similar tenures across the country and brought about twenty million cultivators into direct relation with the state, and the First Amendment of 1951 secured those laws, so the class of rent collecting intermediaries disappeared.

Passed in 1978, it deleted the right to property from Part III and re-enacted it as Article 300A, under which no person may be deprived of property except by authority of law, so the protection is now a legal right enforceable through the ordinary courts rather than a fundamental right.

A benami transfer records land in the name of a relative, a servant or a fictitious person while the real owner keeps control, and it was the commonest device used to stay within the family ceiling on paper while holding far more land in fact, which is one reason so…

These states made consolidation compulsory and completed it over most of their cultivated area, exchanging a farmer's scattered strips for one compact block, which made tube wells, tractors and field channels worth installing and so fed into the green revolution.

Land, rights in and over land, land tenures, the relation of landlord and tenant, and the collection of rent are entries of List II of the Seventh Schedule, which is why zamindari abolition, tenancy law and ceilings were enacted state by state and why their record varies so much.

Walking through the villages of the Telangana region in 1951 he asked landowners to treat the landless as their own kin and to gift a share of their land, and the first such gift at Pochampally began the Bhoodan or land gift movement, later extended as Gramdan, the gift of…

From 1978 the state government ran a campaign to enter the names of sharecroppers, known there as bargadars, in official records, which gave them a permanent and heritable right to cultivate and a legally fixed share of the crop, and it is quoted as the most effective tenancy reform in…