State Exams GK Questions 2026

Born at Allahabad in 1861 and known as Mahamana, Malaviya founded the Banaras Hindu University in 1916, collecting donations across the country for it, served four times as President of the Congress and edited the newspaper Leader.

Both men came from Shahjahanpur and were members of the Hindustan Republican Association.

Mangal Pandey came from Nagwa village in Ballia district and was a sepoy of the 34th Bengal Native Infantry.

She was born at Varanasi in 1828 and was named Manikarnika, called Manu in the family; after her marriage to Gangadhar Rao she became the Rani of Jhansi.

Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 at Mughalsarai in the Chandauli tract, a station town now named Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar.

Bhushan belonged to Tikwapur in the present Kanpur district and wrote the Shivraj Bhushan, Shivabavani and Chhatrasal Dashak in Braj Bhasha, praising Shivaji and Chhatrasal Bundela in the veer rasa at a time when most Riti poets wrote love poetry for courts.

Firaq Gorakhpuri, whose real name was Raghupati Sahay, was born at Gorakhpur in 1896 and received the Jnanpith Award in 1969 for the Urdu collection Gul-e-Naghma, becoming the first Urdu writer to win the prize.

The Nagari Pracharini Sabha was founded at Varanasi in 1893 by students of the Queens College to press for the use of Devanagari and Hindi in the courts and offices, and it went on to publish dictionaries, manuscripts and the Hindi Shabdasagar.

Mahadevi Verma, born at Farrukhabad in 1907, was given the Jnanpith Award in 1982 for Yama, a collection that brings together her lyric poetry.

Prasad, who lived at Varanasi from 1889 to 1937, published Kamayani in 1936; it retells the story of Manu, Shraddha and Ida as an allegory of feeling and intellect and is treated as the chief long poem of Chhayavad.

Premchand, whose real name was Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, was born at Lamhi village near Varanasi in 1880 and died in 1936.

Bhojpuri descends from Magadhi Apabhramsha and is grouped with Magahi and Maithili in the Bihari group of the Eastern Indo-Aryan family, a classification made by George Abraham Grierson in the Linguistic Survey of India.

Braj Bhasha is the speech of the Braj tract, which covers Mathura, Agra, Aligarh, Hathras and Etah, and it belongs to the Western Hindi group that descends from Shauraseni Apabhramsha.

Jayasi belonged to Jais in the present Amethi district and completed the Padmavat in 1540.

Tulsidas wrote the Ramcharitmanas in Awadhi, the Eastern Hindi speech of the Awadh region around Ayodhya, and began the work at Ayodhya in 1574.

Hindi in the Devanagari script is the official language of Uttar Pradesh under the Uttar Pradesh Official Language Act, 1951, and an amendment passed in 1989 added Urdu as the second official language of the state.

Bhajju Shyam, a nephew of Jangarh Singh Shyam and a painter of the Jangarh Kalam, was invited to London to paint a restaurant and recorded that journey in The London Jungle Book, in which the city is drawn through Gond imagery, the underground train as an earthworm and the double…

The Pardhans are the bardic group within Gond society who sing the deeds of Bada Dev to the three stringed fiddle called the bana, and who receive a customary payment from the families they sing for.

The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya was set up in 1977 and stands on the Shamla Hills at Bhopal, overlooking the Upper Lake.

Bada Dev, also called Budha Dev, is the chief deity of the Gonds and is worshipped in the saja tree; the Pardhan bards sing his deeds to the three stringed bana, and these songs are the source from which Gond painting drew its subjects.