State Exams GK Questions 2026

A horse was set free to wander for a year, guarded by the king's soldiers; every territory it crossed unchallenged was counted as accepting his overlordship, and the animal was then sacrificed with great ceremony.

Iron appears only in the later Vedic period, and the axes and ploughshares made from it allowed the forests of the Ganga-Yamuna doab to be cleared, which is why this single word carries so much historical weight.

The correct answer is C, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who argued in his book The Arctic Home in the Vedas that the Vedic hymns preserve memories of long days and long nights, which he took as evidence of an Arctic origin.

The whole of the ninth mandala consists of hymns to Soma, at once a plant, the drink pressed from it and the god of that drink, which shows how central the soma offering was to Vedic sacrifice.

The early Vedic people were mainly pastoral and grew little, and the one grain their hymns name repeatedly is barley, used both as food and in offerings.

The phrase is quoted so often in examinations because it fixes both the names of the assemblies and the text they are described in.

The Rigveda praises it as the naditama, the best or holiest of rivers, and treats it as a goddess as well as a stream.

He is the god of rain and of war, called Purandara, the breaker of forts, and the largest number of Rigvedic hymns is addressed to him, which matches a people whose life turned on rainfall and on cattle raids.

The Purusha Sukta describes the sacrifice of the cosmic being from whose parts the brahmana, kshatriya, vaishya and shudra are said to have come, and it is the first statement of the fourfold varna order.

The seventh mandala of the Rigveda describes how Sudas, the king of the Bharata tribe, defeated a confederacy of ten tribes on its banks, and the battle is the clearest political event recorded in the whole of Rigvedic literature.

Its verses are largely borrowed from the Rigveda but are arranged to be sung to fixed melodies during sacrifices, and those melodies are the earliest record of musical notation in India, which is why the Samaveda is called the root of Indian classical music.

The Act requires that employment be given within fifteen days of an application for work, and if the administration fails to do so, the state government becomes liable to pay an unemployment allowance to the applicant.

A mill turns sugarcane into sugar, that is, it changes the form of a natural product, and every such transformation belongs to the secondary or industrial sector.

Gross domestic product is the money value of all final goods and services produced within the boundaries of a country during a year, counted sector by sector.

Operation Flood, launched in 1970 and led by Verghese Kurien, linked village dairy cooperatives to city markets and made India one of the world's great milk producers.

In the public sector the government owns the assets and provides the services, and the aim is public welfare rather than profit; in the private sector ownership rests with individuals or companies and profit is the motive.

An enterprise belongs to the organised sector when it is registered with the government and follows labour laws, so that employment is regular and secure and workers get fixed hours, paid leave, provident fund and medical benefits.

Banking and insurance create no physical product; they support production and trade by providing credit, moving money and covering risk, and such support activities are the core of the tertiary or service sector.

Agriculture and its allied activities still give work to the largest number of Indians, even though the sector's contribution to national income is far smaller than that share of employment would suggest.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, passed in 2005, guarantees one hundred days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.