Madhya Pradesh GK Questions 2026

The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act was passed in July 1856 and made the remarriage of a Hindu widow lawful, so that the children of such a marriage were treated as legitimate.

The buccal cavity is the mouth, and the saliva poured into it begins the digestion of starch, a carbohydrate. Three pairs of salivary glands supply saliva, which carries the enzyme salivary amylase, also called ptyalin.

This Act ended the last trading rights of the East India Company, its monopoly of trade with China and of the tea trade, and turned the Company into a purely administrative body holding India in trust for the British Crown.

Crown gall is caused by the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which enters through a wound near the base, or crown, of the stem and makes the plant grow rough tumour-like swellings there.

The domestic goat is treated as a subspecies of the wild goat, so its name carries three parts — the genus Capra, the species aegagrus and the subspecies hircus.

Representatives of Gram Panchayat Sakaria said that villagers once depended on wells and tube wells, that every household now has a piped connection and Har Ghar Jal status has been achieved, that Jal Arpan was organised on 16 March 2026, and that drinking water service is supported by a user…

The Samvad is its platform for speaking directly to Gram Panchayat representatives, Village Water and Sanitation Committee members and villagers about keeping rural water supply schemes working.

The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, which works under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, organised the eleventh Sujal Gram Samvad as a virtual multilingual dialogue with Gram Panchayat representatives and village communities on operating and maintaining rural drinking water systems.

Water erosion of soil moves through a fixed sequence: raindrops first loosen the soil, that is splash erosion; the water then takes off a thin even layer of topsoil, which is sheet erosion; the flow soon gathers into small finger-like channels called rills; and when those rills are cut deeper…

The hepatitis B vaccine was the first vaccine made by recombinant DNA technology.

Ashwagandha, whose botanical name is Withania somnifera, is called winter cherry in English because of the small red berry it bears inside a papery cover; it is also called Indian ginseng.

The Khajuraho temples in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh were built between about 950 and 1050 CE by the Chandela rulers of Bundelkhand, among them Yashovarman, who built the Lakshmana temple, and Dhanga and Vidyadhara, under whom the large Kandariya Mahadeva temple came up.

The fort at Gwalior stands on a steep sandstone hill and has been called the Gibraltar of India for its strength.

The Panna belt in Madhya Pradesh holds the only working diamond mines of India, and the town gives its name both to the diamond field and to the Panna National Park, which lies on the Ken river beside it.

Pachmarhi lies in the Satpura range and is the only hill station of Madhya Pradesh. Dhupgarh, the highest point of the state, rises near it, and the Satpura National Park and the Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve lie around it.

Madhya Pradesh sends twenty nine members to the Lok Sabha and elects eleven members to the Rajya Sabha, while its own Vidhan Sabha has two hundred and thirty seats.

The High Court of Madhya Pradesh has its principal seat at Jabalpur, with benches at Indore and at Gwalior.

Mahakaleshwar stands at Ujjain on the bank of the Shipra, the city where the Simhastha fair is held, and Omkareshwar stands on an island in the Narmada in Khandwa district.

The Great Stupa at Sanchi in Raisen district was first raised in brick by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in the third century before the common era, to hold relics of the Buddha.

The rock shelters of Bhimbetka lie in Raisen district, in the foothills of the Vindhya range not far from Bhopal.