Madhya Pradesh GK Questions 2026

The fort on the long sandstone hill at Gwalior holds the Teli ka Mandir of the Pratihara period, the Sas-Bahu temples, the Gujari Mahal built by Man Singh Tomar for Mrignayani and the Man Mandir palace of the same ruler, with its tiled decoration.

The Udayagiri caves lie on a hill near Vidisha, not far from Sanchi, and belong to the Gupta period; the great relief of Vishnu as Varaha lifting the earth goddess is carved there, and an inscription of the reign of Chandragupta II records the visit of one of his officers.

The temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district, with its single enormous linga cut from one stone, is attributed to the eleventh-century Paramara ruler Bhoj of Dhar, the same king remembered for his learning and for the lake he is said to have built at Bhopal.

Mandu, in Dhar district, was the hill capital of the Malwa sultans, and its buildings include the Jahaz Mahal, set between two tanks so that it seems to float like a ship, the sloping-walled Hindola Mahal or swinging palace, the Jama Masjid, the pavilion of Rani Roopmati and the marble…

The relic caskets of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the two chief disciples of the Buddha, were recovered from Stupa 3 at Sanchi, which stands north-east of the Great Stupa and has a single torana.

The Khajuraho temples are classic north Indian Nagara temples: they stand on a high platform without a boundary wall or gateway, they have a curving shikhara over the sanctum with smaller shikharas clustered around it, and their halls run in a line from the entrance to the garbhagriha.

The archaeologist Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar noticed the shelters in the Vindhyan foothills of Raisen district in 1957 and began the study of their paintings, made in red and white ochre and showing hunters, dancers, animals and later riders with weapons.

The core of Stupa 1 at Sanchi, in Raisen district, was raised in the third century BCE in Ashoka's reign, with the Ashokan pillar carrying the schism edict beside it.

Built in the reign of Vidyadhara, it is the tallest and most fully worked out of the Khajuraho temples, with the complete sequence of ardhamandapa, mandapa, antarala and garbhagriha, a cluster of subsidiary shikharas rising towards the main one, and bands of sculpture over its walls.

The Chandelas of Jejakabhukti built the Khajuraho group in Chhatarpur district between about 950 and 1050 CE, and the names of their rulers are tied to individual temples: Yashovarman to the Lakshmana temple and Vidyadhara to the Kandariya Mahadeva.

The Tropic of Cancer passes through the middle of Madhya Pradesh, which is one reason the state has a tropical climate with a marked dry season.

The undivided Madhya Pradesh returned forty members to the Lok Sabha. After the reorganisation of 2000 eleven seats went to Chhattisgarh and twenty-nine remained with Madhya Pradesh, which also has eleven seats in the Rajya Sabha and an assembly of two hundred and thirty elected members.

Vindhya Pradesh was formed of the princely states of the Bundelkhand and Baghelkhand region, was administered as a Part C state, and had its capital at Rewa, the seat of the largest of those states.

Between 1956 and 2000 Madhya Pradesh was the largest state of India by area. When the Chhattisgarh region was separated in 2000, Madhya Pradesh fell to second place and Rajasthan became the largest state by area, a position it still holds.

Ajit Jogi became the first Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh when the state came into existence on 1 November 2000, and Dinesh Nandan Sahay was its first Governor.

The Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 separated sixteen districts of the Raipur, Bilaspur and Bastar divisions to form Chhattisgarh on 1 November 2000, the first of the three states created that year, with Raipur as its capital and the High Court at Bilaspur.

The Part A state called Madhya Pradesh between 1950 and 1956 was the former Central Provinces and Berar, and its capital was Nagpur.

The States Reorganisation Commission of 1953 was chaired by Justice Fazl Ali, with K. M. Panikkar and H. N. Kunzru as its two members.

Ravishankar Shukla had been Chief Minister of the old Madhya Pradesh, that is the Central Provinces and Berar, from 1947, and he continued as the first Chief Minister of the reorganised state from 1 November 1956 until his death at the end of that year.

The reorganisation brought three units, Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal, together with the Hindi-speaking Mahakoshal districts of the old Madhya Pradesh.