SSC GK Questions 2026

Siddheshvara was not one of the poets at the court of Krishnadevaraya. Krishnadevaraya (ruled 1509-1529), the greatest ruler of the Tuluva dynasty of Vijayanagara, was himself a scholar who wrote the Telugu poem Amuktamalyada.

The Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012-17) had the theme "Faster, More Inclusive and Sustainable Growth". It continued the inclusive-growth idea of the Eleventh Plan (2007-12), whose theme was "Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth", and added sustainability as a stated goal.

Both statements misread what the 86th Amendment of 2002 did. Education was already a Directive Principle from 1950: the original Article 45 asked the State to provide free and compulsory education to all children up to fourteen years.

The Puranas, the Ramayana and the Kalpa-Sutra are Smriti texts, while the Vedas are Shruti. Ancient Indian literature is divided into two classes.

The Sri Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam was founded in Kerala in 1903 to carry forward the reform ideas of Sri Narayana Guru.

Detha, who lived and worked at Borunda, collected the folk tales of the region and retold them in Rajasthani in the many volumes of Bataan ri Phulwari, and several of those stories have been adapted for the stage and the screen.

Rathore, an army officer born at Jaisalmer, won the silver medal in men's double trap shooting at the Athens Olympics of 2004, which was then India's best individual Olympic result.

He commanded the company that held the post at Rezang La in Ladakh during the war of 1962 and was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for that action.

When trees were ordered to be felled at Khejarli in the Jodhpur state in 1730, Amrita Devi and the Bishnois of the village clasped the trees and were killed, and the episode has become the standard Indian example of community conservation; the state's wildlife protection award carries her name.

Bhatt, who belonged to Sirohi, followed the Gandhian programme of constructive work and led the movement in the princely states, and the state remembers him by this title.

Govind Guru led the Bhagat reform movement among the Bhils of the southern districts, and the gathering of his followers on Mangarh hill on 17 November 1913 was fired upon, an episode often described as a tribal counterpart of Jallianwala Bagh.

Kumbha of Mewar built the hill fort of Kumbhalgarh and raised the Vijay Stambh, the tower of victory, at Chittorgarh after his victory over Mahmud Khilji; he was also a scholar and wrote the Sangeet Raj.

Shekhawat, who had served as Chief Minister of Rajasthan, was elected Vice-President of India and held the office from 2002 to 2007, which makes him the best-known holder of a national constitutional post from the state.

Barhath composed the thirteen sorthas known as Chetawani ra Chungatya to persuade Maharana Fateh Singh of Mewar to stay away from the Delhi Durbar of 1903, and the verses are treated as a landmark of patriotic Rajasthani writing.

He took office on 7 April 1949, when the united state of Rajasthan was formed out of the princely states of Rajputana, and so heads the list of the state's Chief Ministers.

Jambheshwar, known as Jambhoji and born at Pipasar in 1451, founded the Bishnoi sect in 1485 and laid down the twenty-nine rules from which the sect takes its name, several of them forbidding the felling of green trees and the killing of animals.

Pathik, whose original name was Bhoop Singh, took charge of the agitation of the peasants of Bijolia in the Mewar state against heavy levies and forced labour, and turned a local grievance into the longest-running peasant movement of Rajasthan.

The office of Divisional Commissioner was abolished in Rajasthan in 1962 on the view that it was a needless layer between the state government and the district, and it was restored in 1987, when the state was arranged in six divisions.

Salumbar, one of the eight new districts retained after the review of December 2024, belongs to Udaipur division along with Udaipur, Banswara, Chittorgarh, Dungarpur, Pratapgarh and Rajsamand.

The Tropic of Cancer clips only the extreme southern tip of Rajasthan, crossing the districts of Banswara and Dungarpur, which is why almost the whole state lies in the sub-tropical zone.