Rajasthan GK Questions 2026

Ganga Singh ruled Bikaner from 1887 to 1943 and is called the maker of modern Bikaner.

The Hawa Mahal, the screen of latticed windows on the eastern edge of the City Palace complex, was raised in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh so that the women of the household could watch processions in the street without being seen.

Tonk was set up in 1817 for Amir Khan, a Pathan commander of the Pindari period, under a treaty with the East India Company, and it remained the one princely state of Rajputana with a Muslim ruling house.

The Hada ruler Rao Ratan Singh of Bundi had served the Mughals well, and in 1631 Shah Jahan recognised his son Madho Singh as the ruler of a separate state at Kota, splitting Hadauti into two.

Aurangzeb sent him to the Deccan against Shivaji; he besieged Purandar, and the treaty signed there in 1665 made Shivaji give up a long list of forts and send his son Shambhuji into imperial service.

The Bhati Rajputs held the western desert, first at Lodurva, and Rawal Jaisal shifted to the Trikuta hill in 1156 to found Jaisalmer, where his successors built the yellow sandstone Sonar Quila that is still inhabited.

Rai Singh of Bikaner was a leading general of Akbar, served in Gujarat and the Deccan, and used the wealth and prestige of that service to raise the Junagarh fort in 1589 on the plain beside his capital.

In 1562 Bharmal of Amer, pressed by rivals and by imperial officers in the region, offered his submission to Akbar and sealed it with a marriage alliance; his daughter, known as Mariam-uz-Zamani, became the mother of Jahangir.

He decided that the cramped hill capital of Amer could not hold a growing state, and in 1727 he laid out Jaipur on level ground as a planned city of straight streets and rectangular blocks, with Vidyadhar Bhattacharya as its planner.

Rao Bika was a son of Rao Jodha of Marwar, and he moved north into the Jangladesh tract with his uncle Kandhal and carved out a new state there, naming his capital after himself in 1488.

The khejri, botanically Prosopis cineraria and called the kalp vriksha of the desert because its pods, leaves and shade all serve desert households, is the state tree of Rajasthan.

The Rathore rulers of Jodhpur used the title Maharaja, the early ones being styled Rao, as in Rao Jodha and Rao Maldeo.

The integration of the Rajputana states took place in stages, and in the fourth stage the four large states of Jodhpur, Jaipur, Bikaner and Jaisalmer were merged with the earlier union to form Greater Rajasthan on 30 March 1949, with Jaipur as the capital.

Rao Bika was a son of Rao Jodha of Jodhpur. He moved north into the Jangladesh region and founded the city and state of Bikaner in 1488, which is why Bikaner and Jodhpur are branches of the same Rathore house; the Junagarh fort at Bikaner was built later by Raja…

Manavati Bai, titled Jagat Gosain, was a daughter of Mota Raja Udai Singh of Marwar, the first Rathore ruler to accept the Mughal alliance.

Mandore, a few kilometres north of the present city of Jodhpur, was obtained by Rao Chunda and served as the Rathore capital until Rao Jodha founded Jodhpur in 1459 and moved to the new fort of Mehrangarh.

In 1730 the ruler's men came to Khejarli village in the Jodhpur region to fell khejri trees for burning lime for a palace.

After Maharaja Jaswant Singh I died at Jamrud in 1678, Aurangzeb tried to bring Marwar under direct imperial management and to keep the late ruler's posthumous son under control at Delhi.

Chandrasen ruled from 1562 to 1581, never attended Akbar's court and carried on resistance from the hill country of Siwana and Bhadrajun even after Jodhpur was occupied by imperial troops.

Giri Sumel, near Jaitaran in the present Pali district, was fought in 1544 between the Afghan ruler Sher Shah Suri and Rao Maldeo of Marwar.