UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Mission Shakti was India's first anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test. On 27 March 2019 DRDO fired a ground-launched interceptor from Dr. A.P.J.

Statement 4 is wrong because adhiyars and bargadars were both sharecroppers who worked the land of the jotedars. After the Permanent Settlement of 1793 by Lord Cornwallis, the Company tried to tame the zamindars: their troops were disbanded, their customs duties abolished and their courts placed under Company collectors.

The Arab general Muhammad bin Qasim invaded Sindh in 712 AD on behalf of the Umayyad governor of Iraq, defeated and killed Raja Dahir at Raor and annexed Sindh and Multan.

Kala Amb, on the edge of Panipat town, is the site where the Marathas and the Afghans fought on 14 January 1761.

Babur had the Kabuli Bagh mosque and garden laid out at Panipat after the first battle of Panipat in 1526, and the building is named after his wife Kabuli Begum.

Abdali, also known as Ahmad Shah Durrani, the founder of the Afghan kingdom at Kandahar, defeated the Marathas at Panipat on 14 January 1761 with the help of the Rohilla chief Najib-ud-Daula and Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh.

The Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao sent his cousin Sadashivrao Bhau north in command, with the Peshwa's son Vishwasrao as the nominal head of the expedition.

Hemu, also called Hem Chandra, rose from a trader and officer of the Sur house to be its chief general, defeated the Mughal governor at Delhi in 1556 and had himself crowned there with the old Indian imperial title Vikramaditya.

Akbar was only about thirteen when Humayun died, and the campaign against Hemu was conducted by his guardian and regent Bairam Khan, who insisted on marching to Panipat rather than retreating to Kabul.

On 21 April 1526 Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last sultan of the Lodi dynasty, using field guns handled by Ustad Ali Quli and Mustafa Rumi behind a line of carts and the tulughma method of flanking attack.

Ghori returned to Tarain a year after his defeat with a larger force of mounted archers, drew the heavy Rajput cavalry out of formation with a feigned retreat and destroyed it.

Prithviraj Chauhan III, the Chahamana ruler of Ajmer and Delhi, met Muhammad Ghori at Tarain, the modern Taraori in Karnal district of Haryana, in 1191.

Canning read the Queen's Proclamation at a durbar at Allahabad on 1 November 1858.

Campbell, the Commander in Chief, had already relieved the Residency at the end of 1857 and returned with a large force to retake Lucknow in March 1858, after which the rebel hold on Awadh and Rohilkhand was broken.

Awadh had been a loyal ally of the Company for decades and had an heir, so the Doctrine of Lapse could not be applied; Dalhousie therefore annexed it in 1856 on the plea that it was badly governed, and Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was pensioned off and exiled to Calcutta.

Known as the Maulvi of Faizabad, he had been preaching against Company rule before 1857 and was in prison when the revolt broke out.

He was a grandson of the Rohilla chief Hafiz Rahmat Khan and had served as a judicial officer under the Company before the revolt.

After Hugh Rose took the fort of Jhansi in April 1858 the Rani escaped, joined Tatya Tope, and with him seized Gwalior from the Scindia's forces.

Begum Hazrat Mahal, a wife of the deposed Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, had her young son Birjis Qadr proclaimed Nawab of Awadh in 1857 and led the resistance at Lucknow, where the British were besieged in the Residency and the Chief Commissioner Henry Lawrence was killed.

Dhondu Pant, known as Nana Saheb, was the adopted son of the last Peshwa Baji Rao II, and the Company had refused him his father's pension and titles under the Doctrine of Lapse.