SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

The ruler of Rewari in the Ahirwal country took charge of the administration there in 1857, raised troops, cast cannon at Rampura and sent help to the rebel government in Delhi.

The khejri, botanically Prosopis cineraria and called the kalp vriksha of the desert because its pods, leaves and shade all serve desert households, is the state tree of Rajasthan.

The Rathore rulers of Jodhpur used the title Maharaja, the early ones being styled Rao, as in Rao Jodha and Rao Maldeo.

The integration of the Rajputana states took place in stages, and in the fourth stage the four large states of Jodhpur, Jaipur, Bikaner and Jaisalmer were merged with the earlier union to form Greater Rajasthan on 30 March 1949, with Jaipur as the capital.

Rao Bika was a son of Rao Jodha of Jodhpur. He moved north into the Jangladesh region and founded the city and state of Bikaner in 1488, which is why Bikaner and Jodhpur are branches of the same Rathore house; the Junagarh fort at Bikaner was built later by Raja…

Manavati Bai, titled Jagat Gosain, was a daughter of Mota Raja Udai Singh of Marwar, the first Rathore ruler to accept the Mughal alliance.

Mandore, a few kilometres north of the present city of Jodhpur, was obtained by Rao Chunda and served as the Rathore capital until Rao Jodha founded Jodhpur in 1459 and moved to the new fort of Mehrangarh.

In 1730 the ruler's men came to Khejarli village in the Jodhpur region to fell khejri trees for burning lime for a palace.

After Maharaja Jaswant Singh I died at Jamrud in 1678, Aurangzeb tried to bring Marwar under direct imperial management and to keep the late ruler's posthumous son under control at Delhi.

Chandrasen ruled from 1562 to 1581, never attended Akbar's court and carried on resistance from the hill country of Siwana and Bhadrajun even after Jodhpur was occupied by imperial troops.

Giri Sumel, near Jaitaran in the present Pali district, was fought in 1544 between the Afghan ruler Sher Shah Suri and Rao Maldeo of Marwar.

In 1459 Rao Jodha shifted the Rathore capital from Mandore to a defensible hill called Chidiyatunk, founded the city of Jodhpur named after himself and laid the foundation of the Mehrangarh fort that still dominates the city.

The Tropic of Cancer passes through the middle of Madhya Pradesh, which is one reason the state has a tropical climate with a marked dry season.

The undivided Madhya Pradesh returned forty members to the Lok Sabha. After the reorganisation of 2000 eleven seats went to Chhattisgarh and twenty-nine remained with Madhya Pradesh, which also has eleven seats in the Rajya Sabha and an assembly of two hundred and thirty elected members.

Vindhya Pradesh was formed of the princely states of the Bundelkhand and Baghelkhand region, was administered as a Part C state, and had its capital at Rewa, the seat of the largest of those states.

Between 1956 and 2000 Madhya Pradesh was the largest state of India by area. When the Chhattisgarh region was separated in 2000, Madhya Pradesh fell to second place and Rajasthan became the largest state by area, a position it still holds.

Ajit Jogi became the first Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh when the state came into existence on 1 November 2000, and Dinesh Nandan Sahay was its first Governor.

The Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 separated sixteen districts of the Raipur, Bilaspur and Bastar divisions to form Chhattisgarh on 1 November 2000, the first of the three states created that year, with Raipur as its capital and the High Court at Bilaspur.

The Part A state called Madhya Pradesh between 1950 and 1956 was the former Central Provinces and Berar, and its capital was Nagpur.

The States Reorganisation Commission of 1953 was chaired by Justice Fazl Ali, with K. M. Panikkar and H. N. Kunzru as its two members.