SSC GK Questions 2026

The barrage was built on the Yamuna in Yamunanagar district a short distance upstream of the old Tajewala headworks and was commissioned in 1999.

Ambala lies in the north-eastern corner of Haryana, inside the command of the canals drawn from the Yamuna system, and its fields are watered mainly by that flow supply rather than by any other source; the Dadupur head on the Western Yamuna Canal was built to carry water into this…

Fa-Hien travelled to India at the turn of the fifth century CE, in the reign of Chandragupta II, to collect Buddhist texts.

Brihadratha was the last of the Mauryas, and around 185 BCE his own commander-in-chief Pushyamitra Shunga killed him and took the throne, founding the Shunga dynasty with its centres at Pataliputra and Vidisha.

James Prinsep, secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, worked out the values of Brahmi letters and published his reading in 1837, which made the edicts speak.

Excavations at Kumhrar in Patna uncovered the plinth and pillar stumps of a large pillared hall of the Mauryan period, counted at eighty pillars of Chunar sandstone with the characteristic mirror polish.

Ashoka's Thirteenth Rock Edict names the Hellenistic kings to whom he sent dhamma missions, and their kingdoms are known from Greek history: Antiochus II Theos ruled the Seleucid kingdom of Syria, Ptolemy II Philadelphus ruled Egypt, Antigonus II Gonatas ruled Macedonia and Magas ruled Cyrene in north Africa.

Kumaragupta I, who took the title Mahendraditya, founded the monastery and seat of learning at Nalanda in the fifth century CE.

Harisena was Samudragupta's court poet and a high officer, and he composed the long eulogy engraved on an older Ashokan pillar now at Allahabad.

Mahapadma Nanda overthrew the Shishunagas and founded the Nanda dynasty in the fourth century BCE.

Shulka was a duty on goods, collected at the gates of towns and at ferries and frontiers on trade, not on land or its produce.

The First Buddhist Council met at the Sattapanni cave in Rajagriha soon after the death of the Buddha, under the patronage of Ajatashatru of the Haryanka dynasty.

Udayin, the son and successor of Ajatashatru, built a fort at the meeting point of the Ganga and the Son and moved the Magadhan capital there from Rajagriha.

Seleucus was the Macedonian general who took over Alexander's eastern conquests and tried to recover the Indian provinces around 305 BCE.

The census of 1881 was the first in which the count was taken across the country on one reference date, and W. C. Plowden served as the first Census Commissioner of India; from then on a census has been held every ten years.

The census is taken under the Census Act of 1948, which gives the Union Government power to notify the exercise, appoint census officers and require every person to answer their questions, while making the answers confidential and not usable as evidence.

Ghaziabad, which lies on the edge of Delhi and is almost entirely built up, recorded the highest density of population among the districts of Uttar Pradesh in 2011, far above the state figure of 829 persons per square kilometre.

Allahabad district, renamed Prayagraj in 2018, was the most populous district of Uttar Pradesh in 2011 with about 59.5 lakh people, and Mahoba in Bundelkhand was the least populous.

Gautam Buddha Nagar, the district of Noida and Greater Noida, had the highest literacy rate in the state in 2011, which follows from its industrial and service economy and the educated workers it attracts.

The literacy rate of Uttar Pradesh in 2011 was 67.68 per cent, with male literacy at 77.28 per cent and female literacy at 57.18 per cent, so the gap between men and women was about twenty percentage points.