SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

On the night before a wedding, a naming or another household rite, the women of the family stay awake and sing songs in honour of the family deities; the word itself means keeping watch through the night.

The mother's brother arrives with clothes, ornaments and money for his sister and her children, and the occasion is treated as a binding obligation of the maternal family, celebrated with songs of its own.

In dabu the printer stamps a paste of clay, gum and other material on the cloth, dyes it, and then washes off the paste to leave the covered areas undyed, and Akola is the centre with which the craft is identified, although the technique is also practised at Bagru.

Sanganer lies just south of Jaipur city and is known for its fine floral block printing on a white or cream ground, worked with delicate outlines and soft colours, and the neighbouring village of Bagru in the same district prints bolder motifs in black and red.

Lahariya takes its name from the word for a wave, and its diagonal stripes, produced by rolling the cloth and tying it before dyeing, are said to stand for the running water of the rains; safas and odhnis of this pattern are worn in Sawan and at the Teej festival…

The name comes from the word for the lotus, which is the chief motif of the print, and the yellow ground marks an auspicious event; the garment is given to a mother after childbirth and is also worn at Teej and other festive occasions.

The kardhani, also called tagdi, is the belt of linked metal worn round the waist by women; the corresponding ornament worn by men is the kandora.

The borla is a small round ornament that hangs at the parting of the hair and rests at the centre of the forehead; it is a sign of a married woman and belongs above all to Marwar, where it is also called rakhdi.

The Congress Socialist Party was formed in 1934 as a group within the Indian National Congress to push it towards socialism, and Jayaprakash Narayan became its first general secretary.

A lawyer of Madras who turned to the labour cause, Chettiar organised the first May Day meetings in India on 1 May 1923 and founded the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan; a red flag was used on the occasion.

Both measures were aimed at the growing labour and communist movement, the first to deport foreign agitators and the second to curb strikes in public utility services, and the two young men threw bombs and leaflets to make, in their words, the deaf hear.

Spratt had been sent to India by the Communist Party of Great Britain and worked with the Workers and Peasants Parties; he was arrested in March 1929 and tried at Meerut along with Benjamin Francis Bradley and Lester Hutchinson, the three Englishmen in the dock.

Sweeping arrests were made in March 1929, soon after the great strikes of 1928, and the trial at Meerut went on until 1933, making it one of the longest political trials of the colonial period.

Manabendra Nath Roy, who had gone abroad in search of arms during the First World War and had helped found the Communist Party of Mexico, formed a small emigre Communist Party of India at Tashkent on 17 October 1920 with a handful of muhajirs and revolutionaries.

It allowed unions to register, gave a registered union the standing of a body that could hold property and sue, and protected its office bearers from certain civil suits and from the charge of criminal conspiracy for lawful union work.

In 1918 Gandhi led the Ahmedabad mill workers in their demand for a wage rise and undertook his first fast as a weapon in an industrial dispute; out of that struggle grew the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association in 1920, which stood for arbitration between workers and owners rather than class…

The All India Trade Union Congress was founded at Bombay on 31 October 1920 and Lala Lajpat Rai, the Punjab Congress leader, took the chair as its first president, linking the labour cause to the national movement.

Bahman Pestonji Wadia, a theosophist associated with Annie Besant, organised the workers of the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills at Madras in 1918 into the Madras Labour Union, the first body in India with members, subscriptions and office bearers, and therefore the first trade union in the modern sense.

A follower of Jyotiba Phule and the editor of the Marathi paper Dinbandhu, Lokhande organised the Bombay mill workers in 1884 and placed their demands for shorter hours and a weekly holiday before the Factory Commission, which is why the body is called the first labour association in India.

Ansari. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari was a physician and a Congress leader who presided over the Madras session of the Congress in 1927; he had nothing to do with the communist prosecutions and was never an accused in the Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy Case.