Haryana GK Questions 2026

The temple of Sheetla Mata, known locally as Masani Devi, stands at Gurugram, and its fair is held in Chaitra and again around Ashwin, drawing lakhs of pilgrims over several weeks; it is the biggest fair of the district.

The Kapal Mochan fair is held at Bilaspur in Yamunanagar district on Kartik Purnima, around the three tanks of Kapal Mochan, Rin Mochan and Surya Kund, and it is a large cattle fair as well as a bathing fair; the gurdwara there records a visit of Guru Gobind Singh.

The amphitheatre-shaped tank at Surajkund, with stepped embankments on a hill slope, is attributed by tradition to the Tomar king Surajpal, and the name of the place is taken from his, which is why the modern crafts fair carries it too.

Brahma Sarovar at Kurukshetra, among the largest sacred tanks in India, is the centre of the International Gita Mahotsav, with the evening deep-daan of lamps on its steps, the Gita yagya, seminars and a crafts bazaar held around it.

Gita Jayanti falls on the Ekadashi of the bright half of Margashirsha, the day called Mokshada Ekadashi, which is held to be the day the Bhagavad Gita was spoken at Kurukshetra; the state keeps it as the International Gita Mahotsav.

The fair runs for a fortnight every February, which is also the reason it is counted with the Taj Mahotsav at Agra and the Khajuraho Dance Festival as the February events of north and central India.

The Surajkund mela was started in 1987 as a crafts fair of the state, and it has been held every February since, bringing craftspeople and folk performers from across the country to the grounds at Surajkund.

The fair is held at Surajkund in Faridabad district, close to the Delhi border, where the amphitheatre-shaped reservoir attributed to the Tomar king Surajpal gives the place its name and its setting.

The inscription is cut into the rock on the Tosham hill in Bhiwani district and is written in Brahmi characters of the Gupta age, which makes it one of the oldest written records found in the state.

Narnaul, in Mahendragarh district, is the richest small town in the state for sixteenth and seventeenth century building.

The Asigarh fort, also called the Hansi fort, stands on a high mound in Hansi town of Hisar district and is associated in local tradition with Prithviraj Chauhan, whose family held the region before the battles of Tarain.

Surajkund is a semicircular embankment of stone steps around a reservoir in the Aravalli foothills of Faridabad district, attributed to the Tomar king Surajpal of about the tenth century, from whom it takes its name.

Jyotisar lies a short distance from Kurukshetra town on the road to Pehowa, and an ancient banyan there is pointed out as the spot of the discourse, with a chariot sculpture and a tank beside it.

Fidai Khan, a foster brother of Aurangzeb who served as a governor and builder in his reign, laid out the garden at Pinjore in Panchkula district in the charbagh tradition, using the natural slope of the Shivalik foothills to carry water down a series of terraces with pavilions on them.

Babur had the Kabuli Bagh mosque raised at Panipat to mark his victory over Ibrahim Lodi in the first battle of Panipat in 1526, and tradition says it was named after his queen Mussammat Kabuli Begum.

The tomb stands on a mound at Thanesar, built in marble and sandstone with a tall Persian dome in a walled garden, and the resemblance to a small Mughal mausoleum has earned it the name Taj Mahal of Haryana.

He founded the town in 1354 and called it Hisar-e-Firoza, the fort of Firoz, and built a palace complex there that still holds the Gujari Mahal and the Lat ki Masjid, a mosque that reuses an older pillar shaft.

Rakhigarhi lies in Hisar district, where its mounds spread across more than one village and cover a larger area than any other Harappan site in India.

Because the dams and canals served more than one successor state, the Act apportioned rights in the Bhakra-Nangal and Beas projects and created a board to administer and operate them.

The Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 added the hill districts of the old Punjab, among them Shimla, Kangra, Kullu and Lahaul and Spiti, along with parts of adjoining districts, to Himachal Pradesh, which was then a Union Territory and became a full state in 1971.