Teaching GK Questions 2026

After years of work in the United States, Mangoo Ram returned to Punjab and founded the Ad Dharm movement in 1926, arguing that the so-called untouchable castes were the original inhabitants of the land and formed a religion of their own; the census of 1931 recorded lakhs of people as…

Gulamgiri, meaning slavery, was published in 1873 in Marathi and compared the condition of the lower castes in India with that of enslaved people in the United States, dedicating the work to those who fought slavery there.

He left the Congress in 1925 and launched the Self-Respect Movement, which rejected priestly ritual, conducted marriages without Brahmin priests and without religious ceremony, campaigned for widow remarriage and for women rights, and later turned into the Dravidar Kazhagam in 1944.

Vaikom lies in the former princely state of Travancore, in present-day Kottayam district of Kerala, and the satyagraha of 1924 and 1925 demanded that the lower castes be allowed to use the public roads around the Mahadeva temple there.

The Communal Award announced by Ramsay MacDonald in August 1932 gave the depressed classes separate electorates.

The SNDP Yogam was founded in 1903 in Travancore under his inspiration, with Dr Palpu as the organiser and the poet Kumaran Asan as its first secretary, to work for the Ezhava community through schools, temples open to all and the slogan of one caste, one religion and one God…

In March 1927 Ambedkar led thousands of people to the Chavdar tank at Mahad in the Kolaba district of Bombay Presidency and drank its water, asserting that a public tank opened by a municipal resolution belonged to every citizen.

Omprakash Valmiki published Joothan in 1997, and it is the best known Dalit autobiography in Hindi; the title refers to the leftover food that upper-caste households gave to Dalit families, and the book records humiliation in school, in the village and at work.

The fourfold varna order of classical texts consists of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra.

He founded the Satyashodhak Samaj, or Truth Seekers Society, at Pune in 1873, the same year in which his book Gulamgiri appeared.

The assembly in Pune runs for five days, from 12 to 16 October 2026, and brings together more than 550 participants from Europe, the Americas, South Asia, South East Asia and Australia, of whom 380 are attending in person and about 180 online.

Atmospheric Processes and their Role in Climate is one of its core projects and works on the atmospheric drivers and processes that govern weather patterns and the dynamics of the global climate.

The inaugural function of the assembly was held there, and the institute's Director delivered the opening keynote on modelling the monsoon and on narrowing the gap between how far the monsoon can be predicted in principle and the skill of actual forecasts.

This is the initial contribution pledged by the Government of India to the Alliance, which is headquartered in this country and works for the conservation of seven big cats.

The Alliance was set up for the conservation of seven big cats, and the list runs lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, cheetah, jaguar and puma.

The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change inaugurated the premises, and the Director General of the Alliance welcomed the guests with an account of its activities and programmes.

The ministry recorded the presence of exactly six elected representatives at the programmes, and gave their break-up as a single Member of Parliament together with five Members of Legislative Assemblies.

The parliaments and the melas were organised as a part of this campaign, and specifically under the leg of it called the 100 Weeks Campaign, with the stated aim of turning young people into active workers against substance abuse in their own localities.

The programmes were spread over that many places in thirty-four States on a single day, and more than three and a half lakh young people and other citizens joined them.

Fifteen women were members of the Constituent Assembly, and Begum Aizaz Rasul was the only Muslim woman among them; Dakshayani Velayudhan was its only Dalit woman member.