Rajasthan GK Questions 2026

In 1459 Rao Jodha shifted the Rathore capital from Mandore to a defensible hill called Chidiyatunk, founded the city of Jodhpur named after himself and laid the foundation of the Mehrangarh fort that still dominates the city.

Didwana, Kuchaman, Sargol and Khatu are salt lakes in the dry Nagaur region of Rajasthan. Western Rajasthan has a chain of inland saline lakes, of which Sambhar is the largest.

BHARAT TULIP is the brand the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has built to widen the market for goods made by target-group artisans, taking them to digital platforms in India and abroad.

The Mysuru fair carries 83 stalls, of which 80 have gone to artisans, and 37 of those artisans are women.

The nine-day Shilp Samagam Mela 2026 is laid out at the Mysuru Dasara Exhibition Grounds, and the Union Secretary of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Sudhansh Pant, went round its stalls during a two-day official visit to the city.

Bhamashah served Maharana Pratap as minister and is remembered for placing his own treasure at the Maharana's disposal when the struggle seemed finished after Haldighati.

Akbar besieged the fort in 1567 and took it in 1568, and its defenders Jaimal of Badnor and Patta of Kelwa died fighting.

Alauddin Khalji besieged Chittor in 1303, defeated Rawal Ratan Singh and handed the fort to his son Khizr Khan, after whom it was renamed Khizrabad.

After Alauddin Khalji's capture of Chittor in 1303 the fort passed out of Guhil hands, and it was Rana Hammir who won it back about 1326.

Akbar sent the Kachhwaha ruler of Amer, Man Singh I, to command at Haldighati, with Asaf Khan beside him. The detail matters in exams because it makes the battle a contest between two Rajput houses in different political positions: Amer had accepted the Mughal alliance, while Mewar refused it.

The battle was fought on 18 June 1576 in the narrow pass of Haldighati near Khamnor, between Maharana Pratap of Mewar and Akbar's army.

Udai Singh, saved in childhood by the nurse Panna Dhai from the usurper Banbir, founded a new capital in the valley beside Lake Pichola in 1559, moving the seat of Mewar away from the exposed hill fort of Chittorgarh.

Sangram Singh, known as Rana Sanga, had built the widest Rajput confederacy of his age and met Babur at Khanwa near Bharatpur in 1527.

Rana Kumbha built the nine-storeyed Tower of Victory inside Chittorgarh after his campaigns against the Malwa sultan Mahmud Khalji, which began in 1440.

Kumbha, properly Kumbhakarna, ruled Mewar from 1433 to 1468 and is remembered above all as a builder of forts; Kumbhalgarh in the Aravallis carries his name and is today part of the Hill Forts of Rajasthan inscribed by UNESCO in 2013.

Ranthambore fell to Alauddin Khalji in 1301 after a long siege, and Hammir Dev Chauhan died defending it; the Hammir Mahakavya of Nayachandra Suri is written about him.

Ajayaraja founded Ajayameru early in the twelfth century and shifted the Chauhan centre there from Shakambhari, that is Sambhar; the name wore down into Ajmer, and the hill fort above the town is still called Taragarh.

Prithviraj Chauhan III beat Muhammad Ghori at Tarain, near Thanesar in present day Haryana, in 1191, and the wounded invader escaped from the field.

The Atpur inscription, also called the Ahar inscription, is dated 977 and belongs to the reign of Shaktikumar; it lists the Guhil rulers from Guhadatta onwards and is the main inscriptional source for the early line of Mewar, with the Samoli inscription of 646 standing earlier and the Chirwa inscription…

The Bijoliya rock inscription of Bhilwara district, dated 1170, sets out the Chauhan line from Vasudeva, the founder at Shakambhari or Sambhar, and describes the family as Brahmins of the Vatsa gotra, which is one of the strongest arguments against the Agnikula story of their birth from fire.