Madhya Pradesh GK Questions 2026

The commission under former Chief Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan was appointed in 1966 after Maharashtra pressed its claim to Belagavi, Nippani and Karwar, areas with large Marathi-speaking populations placed in Mysore State by the reorganisation of 1956.

It allows Parliament by law to form a new state, increase or diminish the area of any state, alter its boundaries and change its name, by a simple majority; the Bill needs the President's recommendation, and the President must refer it to the legislature of the state affected for its…

Tendu leaf, the wrapper in which the beedi is rolled, is collected from the dry deciduous forests of Madhya Pradesh in the hot months, and the state leads the country in its production, the collection being organised through forest produce cooperatives that pay a collection rate to tribal gatherers; sal…

Pench lies in Seoni and Chhindwara districts and continues across the state line into the Nagpur district of Maharashtra, so that each state manages its own Pench reserve on either side of the Pench river that gives the park its name; the forest is teak country and is often linked…

The Bhoj wetland is the pair of lakes at Bhopal, the Upper Lake built in the eleventh century in the time of Raja Bhoj and the Lower Lake beside it, and it was added to the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance in 2002, the first Ramsar site of…

The Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve covers the Satpura National Park with the Bori and Pachmarhi wildlife sanctuaries in the Satpura range, and it is part of the UNESCO world network of biosphere reserves; Pachmarhi, the only hill station of the state, and Dhoopgarh, its highest point, lie inside this landscape.

The Bhimbetka rock shelters, with their prehistoric paintings, lie in the Raisen district within the limits of the Ratapani sanctuary, a teak forest of the Vindhyan range south of Bhopal that was later notified as a tiger reserve.

Panna National Park, spread over Panna and Chhatarpur districts along the Ken river, lies beside the diamond bearing tract of Panna, the only diamond mining area worked in India, and it lost its tigers completely before animals brought from other reserves re-established a breeding population, a recovery cited as a…

Bandhavgarh National Park lies in Umaria district around the old Bandhavgarh fort, which stands on a hill inside the park and once belonged to the rulers of Rewa.

Kuno, in Sheopur district on the Kuno river, received the cheetahs flown in from Namibia in September 2022 under Project Cheetah, the first intercontinental translocation of a large carnivore; the area had been cleared and prepared years earlier as a second home for the Asiatic lions of Gir, which gave…

The hard ground barasingha or swamp deer had fallen to a few dozen animals in the Kanha meadows, and a long programme of grassland management and protection brought the population back, which is why the barasingha is the state animal of Madhya Pradesh and the emblem of Kanha.

Kanha, spread over Mandla and Balaghat districts in the Maikal range, was declared a national park in 1955, which makes it the oldest in the state, and it became one of the nine reserves with which Project Tiger began in 1973.

Laterite forms where heavy rain and warm temperatures wash the silica and bases out of the soil and leave iron and aluminium oxides behind, so it appears on the high rainfall plateau of eastern Madhya Pradesh, where rainfall crosses 1,400 millimetres.

The Chambal flows north through soft alluvium towards the Yamuna, and the monsoon run-off cuts channels into it that deepen and widen every year into the badlands called bihad, which swallow farmland and once gave the region its reputation as a refuge for outlaws.

The deep black soil of Malwa holds moisture through the gaps in the monsoon, which is exactly what soybean needs, and the crop spread so widely across Indore, Ujjain, Dewas and Dhar that Madhya Pradesh came to be called the soya state; the same soil also carries cotton, wheat and…

This is the only real alluvial tract of the state, it is the most fertile soil there and it grows wheat, mustard and gram.

Pachmarhi sits on a plateau in the Satpura range south of the Narmada, and Dhupgarh beside it, at about 1,350 metres, is the highest point of Madhya Pradesh; the height gives the place its cool climate, its heavy rain and the biosphere reserve around it.

The reason is that the state's rain comes mostly from the Bay of Bengal branch of the monsoon, which enters from the east and weakens as it travels inland, so the farthest north-western corner is driest.

There the old crystalline rocks, gneiss and granite, lie at the surface, and the iron released by their weathering gives the soil its red colour, turning yellow where the iron is hydrated by heavier rain.

The lava flows that spread over central and western India at the end of the Cretaceous left thick sheets of basalt, and when basalt weathers in a monsoon climate it yields a fine clay rich in iron, lime and magnesium, which is exactly the black soil of Malwa, the Narmada…