Madhya Pradesh GK Questions 2026

Tansen, one of the navaratnas of Akbar, belonged to Gwalior and his tomb stands there beside that of his teacher Muhammad Ghaus; the Tansen Samaroh is held near it in December and the Tansen Samman is given at it.

Khajuraho lies in Chhatarpur district of the Bundelkhand region, and the dance festival has been held there every February since 1975, with classical dance performed against the Chandela temples, themselves a World Heritage Site.

Amarkantak in Anuppur district is the source of the Narmada, and of the Son as well, so Narmada Jayanti is kept there on the largest scale, with gatherings also at Jabalpur, Hoshangabad and Omkareshwar along the river.

The Nagdwari Mela is held at Pachmarhi in Narmadapuram district, inside the Satpura hills, at Nagpanchami in the month of Shravan.

Maha Shivratri falls on the Chaturdashi of the dark half of Phalguna, in February or March. In Madhya Pradesh it is the largest single fair day of the year: it fills the Mahakaleshwar jyotirlinga at Ujjain, the Bhojeshwar temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district and the Shiva shrines of Pachmarhi.

Bhagoria runs through the weekly haats of the week before Holi, in the month of Phalguna, and closes on the day of Holi itself, so the festival is counted as the Bhil form of the spring festival rather than a separate date in the calendar.

Bhagoria is the haat festival of the Bhil and Bhilala people of the western districts, above all Jhabua and Alirajpur, with Dhar, Barwani and Khargone joining in, and it is held in the weekly markets of the week before Holi.

Simha is the Sanskrit name of Leo, and the Ujjain fair takes its name from the entry of Jupiter into that sign, with the Sun in Aries; the combination falls in the month of Vaisakha, so the Ujjain Kumbh is a Vaisakha fair rather than a winter one.

Ujjain stands on the Shipra, and the Simhastha bathing takes place at its ghats, chiefly Ram Ghat, with the Mahakaleshwar jyotirlinga at the centre of the fair.

At Orchha, the Bundela capital on the Betwa in Niwari district, the Ram Raja temple is a palace that became a shrine, and Rama is honoured there as a ruling king rather than only as a deity, with a daily guard of honour.

Amarkantak, in Anuppur district, stands where the Maikal range joins the Vindhyas and the Satpuras, and both the Narmada and the Son rise there.

The Sharda Devi temple stands on the Trikuta hill at Maihar in Satna district, and pilgrims climb more than a thousand steps to reach it.

The core of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, in Raisen district, was raised in brick by Ashoka in the third century BCE, and the stone casing and the railing were added later.

Bhoja, who ruled from Dhar in the eleventh century and is remembered as a scholar king, began the Bhojeshwar temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district on the Betwa.

It is the largest and most developed of the Khajuraho temples, built in the western group under the Chandela ruler Vidyadhara in the early eleventh century, and it shows the Nagara plan at its fullest, with a cluster of smaller shikharas rising like foothills to the main spire over the…

The Chandela rulers of Jejakabhukti built the Khajuraho group in Chhatarpur district between about 950 and 1050 CE, in the Nagara style with clustered shikharas rising over the sanctum.

Omkareshwar is on the island of Mandhata in the Narmada, in Khandwa district, and the island is said to take the shape of the syllable Om, from which the name comes.

The jyotirlinga at Ujjain is installed facing south, which is why it is called Dakshinamukhi, and it is the only one of the twelve with that orientation.

Mahakaleshwar stands at Ujjain on the bank of the Shipra and is the only south-facing jyotirlinga, known for the Bhasma Aarti performed before dawn.

Bhimbetka, in Raisen district, was inscribed in 2003 for its prehistoric paintings, which cover a span from the Upper Palaeolithic to the historical period in a single group of shelters.