Madhya Pradesh GK Questions 2026

The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 merged Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, Bhopal and the Hindi-speaking districts of the old Madhya Pradesh into one state with effect from 1 November 1956, and the Marathi-speaking Vidarbha region went to Bombay State.

Gandhi called Gokhale his political guru, met him on returning from South Africa and, on his advice, spent a year travelling through India before taking up public work.

Bose addressed Gandhi as the Father of the Nation in a radio broadcast from Rangoon in 1944, and the name stayed with him.

Under the subsidiary treaty of 1801 the Nawab of Awadh surrendered about half his territory to the Company and agreed to keep a British force at his own cost, the step that reduced Awadh to dependence and led on to its annexation in 1856, one of the causes of the…

Azad was born in 1906 at Bhavra, a village in the Alirajpur area of the old Jhabua tract, and spent his boyhood among the Bhils there before moving to Banaras.

Rose commanded the Central India Field Force, which marched from Mhow, reduced Rahatgarh and Garhakota, relieved Sagar, forced the Madanpur pass of the Vindhyas, took Jhansi in April 1858 and finally recovered Gwalior fort in June 1858.

After the fall of Jhansi in April 1858 the Rani joined Tatya Tope and Rao Sahib, and in June 1858 they took Gwalior when the Scindia army went over to them.

On that day the Holkar artillery and the Bhil levies turned on the British Residency at Indore.

After the loss of Gwalior in June 1858 Tatya Tope fought a guerrilla war for about ten months through Guna, Rajgarh, Jhalawar and the Chambal ravines, crossing and recrossing the Narmada to avoid British columns.

Shankar Shah was the head of the Gond royal line of Garha-Mandla, the house of Sangram Shah and Rani Durgavati, which had been reduced to a pension by the Company.

Rani Avantibai Lodhi governed Ramgarh, a small estate in the Mandla region of the Narmada valley, after the death of her husband.

Baji Rao I, Peshwa from 1720 to 1740, carried Maratha arms north of the Narmada and into Gujarat, Malwa and Bundelkhand, defeated the Nizam at Palkhed and reached the outskirts of Delhi, so that the initiative in Indian politics passed from the Mughal capital to Poona.

When the princely states were grouped after independence, the two large Maratha states and the small states of Malwa such as Dhar, Dewas, Ratlam and Jhabua were brought together in 1948 as Madhya Bharat, which lasted until the reorganisation of 1956.

Rewa was the chief state of Baghelkhand, the region that takes its name from its Baghel Rajput rulers, and after independence it became the seat of Vindhya Pradesh before that unit was merged into Madhya Pradesh in 1956.

He was an Afghan soldier in the service of the later Mughals who built up a holding around Bhopal in the early eighteenth century, and his descendants ruled it as Nawabs until the state acceded to India.

The second Anglo-Maratha war went against the Maratha chiefs, and in 1803 Daulat Rao Scindia signed the Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon, giving up territory and accepting the Company's terms.

At the close of the third Anglo-Maratha war the Holkar state signed the Treaty of Mandsaur in 1818, accepting British protection and a subsidiary relationship, after which Indore settled into its position as a princely state of central India under the Central India Agency.

The Scindia family's early centre in Malwa was Ujjain on the Shipra, and under Daulat Rao Scindia the seat of the state was moved to Gwalior, where the camp settlement of Lashkar below the hill fort grew into the modern city.

After the Maratha defeat at Panipat in 1761, Mahadji Scindia of Gwalior rebuilt Maratha strength in the north, occupied Delhi, took the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II under his protection and held the real authority at the imperial court.

The temple building and repair that Ahilyabai carried out from Maheshwar reached far beyond her own state, and the rebuilding of the Kashi Vishwanath temple at Varanasi in 1780 is the work most often asked.