SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

Malaviya, a Congress leader from Allahabad, founded the Banaras Hindu University in 1916 and served as its head for many years; the university remains the largest institution the national movement created in the province.

The Hindustan Republican Association, organised at Kanpur in 1924, needed funds for arms, and Bismil planned and led the stopping of a train carrying government money near Kakori, outside Lucknow, on 9 August 1925.

Chauri Chaura is a place in Gorakhpur district, where on 4 February 1922 a procession turned on the police and set fire to the police station, in which twenty-two policemen died.

A wife of the deposed Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, she took charge at Lucknow after the annexation of Awadh and had her young son Birjis Qadr proclaimed ruler, while the British garrison was besieged in the Residency.

On 10 May 1857 the sepoys of the Meerut garrison rose against their officers, released the comrades who had been jailed for refusing the new cartridges, and marched to Delhi, where they proclaimed Bahadur Shah Zafar their emperor.

Bhamashah served Maharana Pratap as minister and is remembered for placing his own treasure at the Maharana's disposal when the struggle seemed finished after Haldighati.

Akbar besieged the fort in 1567 and took it in 1568, and its defenders Jaimal of Badnor and Patta of Kelwa died fighting.

Alauddin Khalji besieged Chittor in 1303, defeated Rawal Ratan Singh and handed the fort to his son Khizr Khan, after whom it was renamed Khizrabad.

After Alauddin Khalji's capture of Chittor in 1303 the fort passed out of Guhil hands, and it was Rana Hammir who won it back about 1326.

Akbar sent the Kachhwaha ruler of Amer, Man Singh I, to command at Haldighati, with Asaf Khan beside him. The detail matters in exams because it makes the battle a contest between two Rajput houses in different political positions: Amer had accepted the Mughal alliance, while Mewar refused it.

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.

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.

Sangram Singh, known as Rana Sanga, had built the widest Rajput confederacy of his age and met Babur at Khanwa near Bharatpur in 1527.

Rana Kumbha built the nine-storeyed Tower of Victory inside Chittorgarh after his campaigns against the Malwa sultan Mahmud Khalji, which began in 1440.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.