SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

Ganga Singh ruled Bikaner from 1887 to 1943 and is called the maker of modern Bikaner.

The Hawa Mahal, the screen of latticed windows on the eastern edge of the City Palace complex, was raised in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh so that the women of the household could watch processions in the street without being seen.

Tonk was set up in 1817 for Amir Khan, a Pathan commander of the Pindari period, under a treaty with the East India Company, and it remained the one princely state of Rajputana with a Muslim ruling house.

The Hada ruler Rao Ratan Singh of Bundi had served the Mughals well, and in 1631 Shah Jahan recognised his son Madho Singh as the ruler of a separate state at Kota, splitting Hadauti into two.

Aurangzeb sent him to the Deccan against Shivaji; he besieged Purandar, and the treaty signed there in 1665 made Shivaji give up a long list of forts and send his son Shambhuji into imperial service.

The Bhati Rajputs held the western desert, first at Lodurva, and Rawal Jaisal shifted to the Trikuta hill in 1156 to found Jaisalmer, where his successors built the yellow sandstone Sonar Quila that is still inhabited.

Rai Singh of Bikaner was a leading general of Akbar, served in Gujarat and the Deccan, and used the wealth and prestige of that service to raise the Junagarh fort in 1589 on the plain beside his capital.

In 1562 Bharmal of Amer, pressed by rivals and by imperial officers in the region, offered his submission to Akbar and sealed it with a marriage alliance; his daughter, known as Mariam-uz-Zamani, became the mother of Jahangir.

He decided that the cramped hill capital of Amer could not hold a growing state, and in 1727 he laid out Jaipur on level ground as a planned city of straight streets and rectangular blocks, with Vidyadhar Bhattacharya as its planner.

Rao Bika was a son of Rao Jodha of Marwar, and he moved north into the Jangladesh tract with his uncle Kandhal and carved out a new state there, naming his capital after himself in 1488.

Lajpat Rai started his legal practice at Hisar in 1886, took part in the municipal and Arya Samaj work of the town and in early Congress organisation there, and only later moved to Lahore, from where he became a national figure.

The large cantonment at Ambala, on the road from Delhi to the hills, reported restiveness among its sepoys in May 1857, and some accounts place signs of it even before the outbreak at Meerut on 10 May.

He began the weekly Haryana Tilak in 1923 to give the national movement in the Haryana districts a newspaper of its own, since the region's news was otherwise carried only in the Lahore papers.

Chhotu Ram helped found the Unionist Party of Punjab with Fazl-i-Husain, a party of landholders and peasants across community lines, and as a minister he carried measures for the indebted cultivator, among them the Punjab Relief of Indebtedness Act of 1934.

Chhotu Ram, born at Garhi Sampla in Rohtak district on 24 November 1881 and honoured as Deenbandhu, started the Urdu weekly Jat Gazette in 1916 to carry the case of the indebted peasant, and he used it for the rest of his career alongside his work in the Punjab legislature…

Letters recovered after the fall of Delhi showed that the two men of Hansi had written to the Mughal court in support of the revolt, and they were tried and hanged there in January 1858, their property confiscated.

Raja Nahar Singh of Ballabgarh, in the present Faridabad district, sided with the rebels of Delhi, and after the city was retaken he was arrested, tried and hanged in January 1858 at Chandni Chowk in Delhi, his state being confiscated.

In 1858 the government took the Delhi territory out of the North-Western Provinces and attached it to Punjab, partly as a punishment for the region's part in the revolt and partly because Punjab's administration had stayed loyal and effective.

After the defeat at Nasibpur, Rao Tula Ram left India to seek foreign help against the British, travelling through Iran and Central Asia, and he died at Kabul on 23 September 1863 while still trying to build an alliance.

Nasibpur lies next to Narnaul in the south of present-day Haryana, and it was there that Rao Tula Ram's forces, with Rao Kishan Singh and contingents from the rebel side, met the British column.