UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Neemuchana was a village of Alwar state whose peasants resisted an increase in lagan; on 14 May 1925 the state forces fired on them, and Mahatma Gandhi, writing about the deaths, called the act double dyed dyerism, a comparison with General Dyer at Jallianwala Bagh.

He organised the cultivators of the Begun thikana of Mewar, in present Chittorgarh district, from 1921; the terms he won were so unwelcome to the Mewar government that its officials described the settlement as a Bolshevik agreement, and the firing at Govindpura on 13 July 1923 killed the peasants Rupaji…

Born Bhoop Singh in Bulandshahr, he took charge of the Bijolia agitation from 1916, gave it a press and an organisation, and founded the Rajasthan Seva Sangh at Wardha in 1919 to coordinate the peasant movements of the princely states.

Bijolia was a first-class thikana of Mewar and its village lies in Bhilwara district today. The movement of its mostly Dhakar cultivators against some eighty-four kinds of lag-bag ran from 1897 to 1941 and is counted the longest-running peasant movement in India.

On 15 October 1857 the Kota state troops, led by Jaidayal and Mehrab Khan, turned on the British residency, killed Major Burton and his two sons and held the city for about five months until General Roberts recovered it in March 1858.

The whole of Rajputana was supervised by a single Agent to the Governor-General, and in 1857 that post was held by Patrick Lawrence, who worked from Mount Abu and spent the year keeping the princely rulers on the British side.

Thakur Kushal Singh of Auwa met a combined British and Jodhpur force at Chelawas on 18 September 1857 and defeated it, and Monck Mason, the Political Agent posted at Jodhpur, was killed in that fighting.

The 15th Bengal Native Infantry stationed at Nasirabad in Ajmer district rose on 28 May 1857, burnt the cantonment and marched towards Delhi, which makes Nasirabad the first centre of the revolt anywhere in Rajputana.

Ujjain is held to be the city of Kalidasa, and the state festival named after him, with drama, recitation and scholarship on his works, is held there.

The name Bawangaja means fifty-two gaz, the traditional height given to the standing rock-cut image of Adinatha cut into the Satpura slope in Barwani district, and its mahamastakabhisheka draws Jain pilgrims from across the country.

Tansen, one of the navaratnas of Akbar, belonged to Gwalior and his tomb stands there beside that of his teacher Muhammad Ghaus; the Tansen Samaroh is held near it in December and the Tansen Samman is given at it.

Khajuraho lies in Chhatarpur district of the Bundelkhand region, and the dance festival has been held there every February since 1975, with classical dance performed against the Chandela temples, themselves a World Heritage Site.

Amarkantak in Anuppur district is the source of the Narmada, and of the Son as well, so Narmada Jayanti is kept there on the largest scale, with gatherings also at Jabalpur, Hoshangabad and Omkareshwar along the river.

The Nagdwari Mela is held at Pachmarhi in Narmadapuram district, inside the Satpura hills, at Nagpanchami in the month of Shravan.

Maha Shivratri falls on the Chaturdashi of the dark half of Phalguna, in February or March. In Madhya Pradesh it is the largest single fair day of the year: it fills the Mahakaleshwar jyotirlinga at Ujjain, the Bhojeshwar temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district and the Shiva shrines of Pachmarhi.

Bhagoria runs through the weekly haats of the week before Holi, in the month of Phalguna, and closes on the day of Holi itself, so the festival is counted as the Bhil form of the spring festival rather than a separate date in the calendar.

Bhagoria is the haat festival of the Bhil and Bhilala people of the western districts, above all Jhabua and Alirajpur, with Dhar, Barwani and Khargone joining in, and it is held in the weekly markets of the week before Holi.

Simha is the Sanskrit name of Leo, and the Ujjain fair takes its name from the entry of Jupiter into that sign, with the Sun in Aries; the combination falls in the month of Vaisakha, so the Ujjain Kumbh is a Vaisakha fair rather than a winter one.

Ujjain stands on the Shipra, and the Simhastha bathing takes place at its ghats, chiefly Ram Ghat, with the Mahakaleshwar jyotirlinga at the centre of the fair.

The gurdwara at Patna Sahib marks the birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh in 1666 and is one of the five Takhts of the Sikhs, the only one in Bihar.