Rajasthan GK Questions 2026

Mihir Bhoja, also called Bhoja I, was the greatest of the Gurjara Pratiharas; he ruled from Kannauj in the ninth century, was a devotee of Vishnu and issued silver coins carrying the title Adivaraha, the primeval boar, one of Vishnu's forms.

He ruled in about the middle of the eighth century from Bhinmal in the Jalore region and is credited with stopping the Arab armies that had taken Sindh, a service which even the Rashtrakuta records acknowledge when they describe the Pratihara as the defender of the west.

The four clans named in the Agnikula account are the Pratihara or Parihar, the Chauhan or Chahamana, the Solanki or Chaulukya and the Parmar or Paramara.

Tod, who served as the Political Agent of the East India Company in western Rajputana, wrote the Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan and argued that the Rajputs were descended from the Scythians of Central Asia, pointing to shared habits of warfare, the place of the horse and certain funeral rites.

Chand Bardai's Prithviraj Raso tells that four clans, the Pratihara, the Chauhan, the Solanki and the Parmar, rose from a fire pit at Mount Abu where the sage Vashishtha performed a sacrifice, and from this account the Agnikula or fire born theory takes its name.

The presentation by the Joint Director General of Foreign Trade at Jaipur placed India eighth among exporters of gems and jewellery worldwide, with a share of 2.9 per cent in a global market worth about one trillion dollars, and noted that the recently concluded agreements grant immediate duty-free access across…

The Department of Commerce organised the outreach programme in the Rajasthan capital to build awareness of the benefits available under India free trade agreements and to help exporters use them in practice.

This is the estimated cumulative figure for merchandise and services exports taken together during the first six months of the financial year.

The deposits around Didwana in Nagaur district, especially at Singi Talav, have produced a long sequence of Palaeolithic tools including hand axes and cleavers, and the area is one of the key localities for the study of the Stone Age in western India.

On the hill called Bijak ki Pahadi at Bairath in Jaipur district, excavations begun by Daya Ram Sahni brought to light a round shrine built of brick and timber with a small stupa at its centre and a circular passage for circumambulation, counted among the earliest circular Buddhist structures known…

Balathal in Udaipur district and Gilund in Rajsamand district stand in the Banas basin of southern Rajasthan and share the Black and Red Ware, the copper working and the stone and mud brick houses of the Ahar culture, named after its type site at Ahar in Udaipur.

Rairh produced one of the largest hoards of punch marked silver coins reported from Rajasthan, along with Malava coins and great heaps of iron slag that show smelting was carried on there over a long period.

Ganeshwar lies on the Kantli river in Sikar district in the Shekhawati region, close to the copper bearing rocks of the Khetri belt.

Bairath, also called Viratnagar, in Jaipur district is the chief Mauryan site of Rajasthan.

Bagor stands on the Kothari river in Bhilwara district and was excavated by V. N. Misra. The site produced thousands of tiny stone tools called microliths, along with human burials and large numbers of animal bones, among them sheep and goat, which are read as evidence for early herding.

Ahar lies on the Ayad river within present day Udaipur and was called Tambavati, which means the place of copper, because so much copper was smelted and worked there.

In the pre Harappan level at Kalibangan the excavators found a field with furrows running in two directions and crossing at right angles, exactly the pattern of mixed cropping still used in the region, where one crop is sown in the wider spaced furrows and another in the closer ones.

Kalibangan lies in Hanumangarh district on the left bank of the now dry bed of the Ghaggar, the river that many scholars identify with the Saraswati of the Vedic texts.

Kota recorded the highest literacy of any district of Rajasthan in 2011, which fits its character as an industrial and coaching city with a largely urban population.

The Kathodi are a small tribe who moved into Rajasthan from Maharashtra and live in the forest tracts of Udaipur, particularly Jhadol and Kotra.