SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

India has a land boundary with Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Chhath Puja is the great folk festival of Bihar, kept also in eastern Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, in which women observe a long fast, stand in a river or pond and offer arghya first to the setting sun and then to the rising sun on the following morning, worshipping Surya…

The Kalbelia are a community of Rajasthan traditionally associated with snake catching, and their women dance in long black skirts with a swirling, serpentine movement to the been and the khanjari.

The great Indian bustard, called Godawan in Rajasthan, is a tall grassland bird of the Thar region and is the state bird of Rajasthan, whose state animal is the chinkara, state tree the khejri and state flower the rohida.

The red panda, a small reddish-brown mammal of the eastern Himalayan bamboo forests, is the state animal of Sikkim, which also has the blood pheasant as state bird, the rhododendron as state tree and the noble orchid as state flower.

The hangul is a subspecies of the red deer found in the Kashmir valley, and its last substantial population survives in the Dachigam National Park near Srinagar, which is why hangul and Dachigam are always asked together.

Wangala is the post-harvest thanksgiving festival of the Garo people of Meghalaya, offered to Misi Saljong the sun god, and it is called the hundred drums festival because long drums are beaten together in lines while dancers in feathered headgear move in formation.

Hojagiri is danced by the women of the Reang community of Tripura, who balance on the rim of an earthen pitcher and keep a bottle with a lit lamp steady on the head while moving only the lower half of the body, so the upper body stays almost still.

Bathukamma is celebrated for nine days around Mahalaya Amavasya in the monsoon, when women of Telangana stack seasonal flowers in the shape of a temple tower, sing round it in a circle each evening, and on the last day set it afloat in a tank or stream.

The Hornbill Festival is held each December at the Naga Heritage Village at Kisama near Kohima, where all the major tribes of Nagaland put up their morungs and present their dances, songs, crafts, wrestling and food, which is why it is called the festival of festivals.

Cheraw is the best known dance of Mizoram, in which men sit facing each other and clap long bamboo staves together in rhythm while women dancers step in and out of the closing poles.

Sattriya grew in the sattras, the Vaishnava monasteries of Assam established in the devotional movement of Srimanta Sankardeva in the sixteenth century, where it was performed by celibate monks as part of worship.

Kuchipudi takes its name from the village of Kuchipudi in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, where the dance-drama tradition of the Bhagavatulu performers grew, and Siddhendra Yogi is remembered as the teacher who shaped it.

The Vijayanagara workshops extended the bronze tradition from deities to royal portraiture, and the standing copper figures of the emperor Krishnadevaraya with his two queens, Tirumala Devi and Chinnaji Devi, were placed in the Venkateshvara temple at Tirumala, where they remain.

Swamimalai is a temple town in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, in the old Chola heartland near Kumbakonam, and its stapathi families have cast panchaloha images by the solid lost-wax method in an unbroken line from the Chola workshops.

Dhokra takes its name from the Dhokra Damar metal workers and is the hollow lost-wax craft of this eastern and central belt, with Bikna village in the Bankura district of West Bengal and the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh as its best known centres; Bastar Dhokra carries a geographical indication tag.

Daimabad lies on the Pravara river in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra and is the southernmost late Harappan site known.

Under the Pala rulers of Bengal and Bihar, from about the ninth century onwards, the monastery workshops of Nalanda and the village of Kurkihar near Gaya cast hundreds of small metal images of the Buddha, Tara, Avalokiteshvara and other Bodhisattvas in ashtadhatu, the eight-metal alloy.

The image was dug up in 1861 at Sultanganj in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar during railway work, stands over two metres high, and was cast in copper in the transition between the Gupta and Pala periods.

The upper right hand of Nataraja holds the damaru, the small hour-glass shaped drum whose beat stands for the sound from which creation begins.