Rajasthan GK Questions 2026

The Sitamata sanctuary, spread over Pratapgarh and the neighbouring tracts of southern Rajasthan, is the known home of the Indian flying squirrel, the udan gilahri, and it also carries the best teak and bamboo forest of the state along with the Jakham river.

The khejri, Prosopis cineraria, is the state tree of Rajasthan. It survives on very little water, its leaves called loong serve as fodder, its pods are eaten as the vegetable sangri, and because it gives shade, fuel and food in the driest tracts it is called the kalpavriksha of the…

Sariska lies in the Aravalli hills of Alwar district. It was notified a wildlife sanctuary in 1955 and brought under Project Tiger in 1978, and it earned a place in every exam list when tigers were flown in and released here after the reserve lost its tigers, the first such…

Keoladeo National Park lies at Bharatpur in eastern Rajasthan. It began as a duck shooting reserve created by Maharaja Suraj Mal of Bharatpur, who built the Ajan Bandh whose waters still flood the shallow marshes, was declared a bird sanctuary and later a national park, entered the Ramsar list in…

The Aravalli runs from the south-west to the north-east, which is the same direction in which the Arabian Sea branch travels, so the winds slide along the range instead of being forced up over it; without that lifting there is little cooling and little rain, and the moisture is carried…

It is the highest part of the Aravalli range and the only hill station of Rajasthan, so the monsoon winds are forced to rise over it and it receives well over a thousand millimetres a year, far more than anywhere else in the state.

These, with the Sambhar basin, are the inland basins of Rajasthan: the streams that reach them have no outlet to the sea, so the water evaporates and leaves its salts behind, and the same salt is worked commercially at Sambhar, Didwana and Pachpadra.

Where the Chambal runs through the soft alluvium of Dholpur, Karauli and Sawai Madhopur, the monsoon run-off cuts deep channels that widen year after year into the badlands called bihad, taking farmland out of use and giving the area its old reputation as a hiding place for outlaws.

The Central Arid Zone Research Institute was set up at Jodhpur in 1959 and works on sand dune stabilisation, shelter belts, dry farming, desert pasture and the spread of the desert, which is why it is the institute named in questions on the Thar.

The Thar desert and the arid plains west of the Aravalli take up the greater part of Rajasthan, and their soil is overwhelmingly sand, low in nitrogen and organic matter, porous so that water sinks away quickly, but often well supplied with lime and phosphate.

The soil there is formed from the weathering of the basalt of the Deccan trap, so it is clayey, holds moisture well and cracks in summer, and it carries the state's soybean, cotton and wheat.

The Tropic of Cancer crosses the southern part of Banswara, the southernmost district of Rajasthan, so the whole of the state except that small corner lies north of the tropic, in the subtropical belt.

These are the showers of December to February, brought by western disturbances that travel from the Mediterranean across Iran and Pakistan into north-western India, and they are valued because they water the standing rabi crops of wheat, gram, barley and mustard without any cost to the farmer.

It lies in the extreme west of the state, farthest from both branches of the south-west monsoon, and parts of the district record under 200 millimetres a year, which is why the sand dunes there are the largest and the most mobile in Rajasthan.

Bundi, in the Hadoti region, has dozens of baoris and is therefore called the city of stepwells; the grandest is Rani ji ki Baori, built in 1699 by Rani Nathavati, with a high arched gate and carved elephant brackets.

In south Bihar the pyne is a diversion channel that takes flood water from a river, and the ahar is a catchment basin with embankments on three sides in which that water is stored for the rice crop, a system suited to the region hard soil and uneven rainfall.

A tanka is a covered underground cistern, usually circular, dug in the courtyard of a house or in a public square in western Rajasthan, into which rain from the roof or a paved catchment is led and stored for drinking through the dry months.

Both lie in the Mehrauli area of Delhi; Gandhak ki Baoli, from the time of Iltutmish, takes its name from the sulphurous smell of its water, and Rajon ki Baoli belongs to the Lodi period and is named after the masons who once used it.

Adalaj ni Vav stands at Adalaj in Gandhinagar district and was completed in 1499 during the reign of Mahmud Begada; its carving mixes Hindu motifs with Islamic geometric and floral work, and the queen Rudabai is remembered in its story.

The Kallanai, known in English as the Grand Anicut, is a dam of unhewn stone laid across the Kaveri in the Thanjavur region and is credited to the early Chola king Karikala; it still spreads the river water over the delta.