State Exams GK Questions 2026

Tod, who served as the Political Agent of the East India Company in western Rajputana, wrote the Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan and argued that the Rajputs were descended from the Scythians of Central Asia, pointing to shared habits of warfare, the place of the horse and certain funeral rites.

Chand Bardai's Prithviraj Raso tells that four clans, the Pratihara, the Chauhan, the Solanki and the Parmar, rose from a fire pit at Mount Abu where the sage Vashishtha performed a sacrifice, and from this account the Agnikula or fire born theory takes its name.

At Buxar in Bihar on 22 October 1764 Munro defeated the combined armies of Mir Qasim, the deposed Nawab of Bengal, Shuja ud Daula, the Nawab of Awadh, and the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II.

He was a son of Bahadur Shah I and a grandson of Aurangzeb, and he governed Bihar as subahdar from Patna.

Hemu, also called Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, was the Hindu general and chief minister of the Sur ruler Muhammad Adil Shah.

Sher Shah was besieging the Bundelkhand fort of Kalinjar when a gunpowder explosion on 22 May 1545 fatally injured him; the fort fell on the same day.

Sher Shah had the land measured, graded it as good, middling or bad, fixed the state's share at about one third of the average produce, and then issued every cultivator a patta, a title deed setting out his holding and what he owed, so that no intermediary could demand more.

The Sadak e Azam ran from Sonargaon in eastern Bengal through Bihar, Agra, Delhi and Lahore to the Indus in the northwest, and Sher Shah lined it with wells, shade trees and sarais.

Sher Shah withdrew the debased mixed coins in circulation and issued a silver rupiya of about one hundred and seventy eight grains of fixed purity, along with a copper dam, and set a rate between them.

Sher Shah's tomb stands in the middle of a large tank at Sasaram in Rohtas district, the town whose jagir his father held, and it is the work of the architect Aliwal Khan; its octagonal plan, high plinth and great dome make it one of the finest Indo Islamic monuments…

It was fought on 26 June 1539 at Chausa on the Ganga, in present Buxar district of Bihar, and Sher Khan's victory broke Humayun's army; the emperor himself escaped across the river and the Mughal hold on the east collapsed.

He was born Farid Khan, the son of Hasan Khan, an Afghan of the Sur clan who held the jagir of Sasaram in what is now Rohtas district of Bihar.

Chak hao is the scented black rice of Manipur, used for a dark kheer at feasts and registered as a Geographical Indication, as is the kachai lemon of the same state.

Dum pukht belongs to the Awadhi kitchen of Lucknow, where meat, rice and spices are sealed inside a heavy pot with dough and left on a low fire so that the food cooks in its own steam.

Darjeeling tea of West Bengal was the first Indian product to be registered under the Geographical Indications of Goods, Registration and Protection, Act of 1999, and its logo of a woman holding a tea leaf is the mark of the Tea Board of India.

Undhiyu is a winter dish of Surat and south Gujarat in which surti papdi, yam, raw banana, brinjal, potato and muthia dumplings are cooked slowly with a green paste of coriander, coconut and green chilli.

Bebinca is the best known Goan sweet, baked layer upon layer from coconut milk, flour, egg yolk, sugar and ghee, one layer set before the next is poured, and it belongs to the Portuguese inheritance of Goan cooking along with vindaloo, sorpotel and xacuti.

The Mahaprasad of Puri is cooked in the temple's Rosaghara in unglazed earthen pots stacked one above the other over wood fires, so that the pot on top is said to cook first, and it is then offered to the deities and sold to pilgrims in the Ananda Bazaar within…

Litti is a wheat ball stuffed with roasted gram flour, that is sattu, flavoured with ajwain, mustard oil, lemon and pickle, roasted over coals and eaten with chokha, a mash of roasted brinjal, potato and tomato.

Dal baati churma is the signature meal of Rajasthan: hard wheat balls baked in embers, served with a spiced lentil preparation and with churma, the same baati crushed with ghee and sugar.