State Exams GK Questions 2026

The Kols of Chotanagpur rose when their lands were given over to outsiders, called dikus, as farms and leases, and the rising under Buddho Bhagat spread through Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Palamu and Singhbhum before troops put it down.

The rising of 1899 and 1900 forced the administration to look at the loss of tribal land, and the Act of 1908 recognised the khuntkatti right by which Munda families held land collectively, restricted its transfer to outsiders and ended the forced labour known as beth begari.

Jatra Oraon, also called Jatra Bhagat, preached among the Oraons of the Gumla and Ranchi country that they should give up liquor, animal sacrifice and work for landlords, and refuse to pay rent to outsiders.

Bakasht was land that zamindars had taken into their own cultivation after evicting occupancy tenants during the depression, and the Kisan Sabha fought to get it restored to the tenants.

The peasant organisations of the provinces came together at Lucknow in April 1936 as the All India Kisan Sabha, and the Bihar leader Sahajanand Saraswati was chosen its first president, with N. G. Ranga of Andhra as general secretary.

A sanyasi turned organiser, he built the Bihar Pradesh Kisan Sabha in 1929 to press tenants' claims against the zamindars, and the body became the model for the All India Kisan Sabha founded at Lucknow in April 1936, of which he was the first president with N. G. Ranga as…

The word means a great tumult or upheaval in Mundari, and it is the name given to Birsa Munda's rising of 1899 and 1900 against landlords, contractors and missionaries, and above all against the destruction of the khuntkatti system under which Munda families held land collectively.

The Santhals of the Damin-i-Koh, pressed by moneylenders, revenue farmers and the railway contractors, rose under the brothers Sidhu and Kanhu, with Chand and Bhairav beside them, and declared an end to Company rule in their country in 1855.

Twenty kathas made a bigha, so the tenant had to put about a seventh of his holding under indigo for the European planter, on terms the planter fixed, and pay a string of illegal cesses besides.

Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who followed Gandhi from the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 until he agreed to see the indigo districts for himself.

Uttar Pradesh has a Legislative Council, the Vidhan Parishad, of one hundred seats, the largest in the country, alongside a Vidhan Sabha of four hundred and three elected seats.

The Allahabad High Court, one of the oldest High Courts in India, sits at Allahabad, now Prayagraj, and has a bench at Lucknow created when Awadh's own Chief Court was merged into it.

A Bill under Article 3 can be introduced only on the recommendation of the President, and the President must refer it to the legislature of the state concerned to express its views within the period specified.

Before 2000 the undivided Uttar Pradesh returned eighty-five members to the Lok Sabha. When Uttarakhand was created, five seats went with the hill districts, leaving Uttar Pradesh with eighty, still the largest number for any state, along with thirty-one seats in the Rajya Sabha.

The agitation for a separate hill state turned violent in 1994, and the firing on demonstrators at Khatima and Mussoorie, followed by the incident at Muzaffarnagar on the night of 1 and 2 October 1994 when marchers were going to Delhi, gave the movement its martyrs and brought the demand…

The three states came into existence within a fortnight: Chhattisgarh on 1 November 2000 from Madhya Pradesh as the twenty-sixth state, Uttaranchal on 9 November 2000 from Uttar Pradesh as the twenty-seventh, and Jharkhand on 15 November 2000 from Bihar as the twenty-eighth.

The Ceded and Conquered Provinces were reorganised in 1836 as the North-Western Provinces, with Agra as the seat of government, and Awadh was attached to the same administration in 1877.

Pant headed the government of the United Provinces from 1946 and continued as the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh after the renaming in 1950.

Article 3 allows Parliament by law to form a new state by separating territory from any state, by uniting two or more states or parts of them, and to increase or diminish the area of a state or alter its boundaries or name.

Under the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000, the thirteen hill districts of the Kumaon and Garhwal divisions were separated to form Uttaranchal, the twenty-seventh state of India, on 9 November 2000, with Dehradun as its interim capital and the High Court at Nainital.