UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The All India Kisan Sabha was founded at Lucknow in April 1936, and Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, who had built the Bihar Kisan Sabha, was elected its first president.

In 1928 the peasants of Bardoli in Surat district refused to pay a land revenue enhancement of about thirty per cent.

The rising led by Birsa Munda from 1899 to 1900 compelled the government to pass the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act in 1908, which recognised the khuntkatti right by which a Munda family held the land its ancestors had cleared and prohibited beth begari, the practice of forced unpaid labour.

Ulgulan is the Mundari word for a great upheaval or tumult, and it is the name the Mundas gave to the rising Birsa Munda led in Chhotanagpur from 1899 to 1900 against landlords, moneylenders, contractors and missionaries.

The Santhal Hool, the largest tribal rising before 1857, was led by the brothers Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu, with Chand and Bhairav beside them, in the Damin-i-Koh tract of the Rajmahal hills.

After the riots of 1875 the government enquired into peasant indebtedness in the Deccan and passed this Act, which restricted the moneylender's power to have a debtor's land sold in execution of a decree and gave the courts power to look behind the bond.

The Deccan Riots began in 1875 at Supa in Poona district and spread through Poona and Ahmednagar.

Dinabandhu Mitra wrote the Bengali play Nil Darpan, published in 1860, which showed how indigo planters coerced the cultivators of Bengal, and it reached the English reading public and the administration soon after.

The Indigo Revolt, called the Neel Bidroha, began in 1859 in the Nadia district of Bengal, where the ryots refused to sow indigo on the terms the planters forced on them.

Besides a free meal through the local anganwadi during pregnancy and for six months after childbirth, the Act entitles every pregnant woman and lactating mother to a maternity benefit of not less than six thousand rupees, paid in instalments; women already receiving a similar benefit as government employees are excluded.

The High Level Committee on restructuring the Food Corporation of India, chaired by Shanta Kumar, reported in 2015.

The Targeted Public Distribution System was introduced in June 1997. Until then the distribution system was universal, open to any cardholder; from 1997 households were classified as Below or Above the Poverty Line and given different quotas at different prices, with the poorer group receiving a larger subsidy.

Article 47, a Directive Principle of State Policy, declares that the State shall regard the raising of the level of nutrition and of the standard of living of its people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties, and the same Article speaks of prohibiting intoxicating drinks…

The Commission, set up in 1965 as the Agricultural Prices Commission and renamed in 1985, recommends the minimum support price for twenty-two mandated crops after weighing the cost of production, demand and supply, price trends and the terms of trade; the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs takes the final decision…

The Food Corporation of India was established in 1965 under the Food Corporations Act of 1964, in the years of acute shortage that preceded the Green Revolution, to procure foodgrain at the support price, store it, move it across the country and issue it to the distribution system.

The Antyodaya Anna Yojana was launched in December 2000 for one crore of the poorest households, which were given foodgrain at the lowest issue price; the quota was twenty-five kilograms a household a month at first and was raised to thirty-five kilograms in 2002.

The Act fixed the issue price at three rupees a kilogram for rice, two rupees for wheat and one rupee for coarse grains, and provided that these prices would hold for three years from the date of commencement, after which the Central Government could revise them up to the minimum…

The Act provides that the ration card shall be issued in the name of the eldest woman of the household who is eighteen years of age or more, so that the entitlement is held by a woman; if there is no such woman, the eldest male member holds it until…

Those two ceilings together work out to about two-thirds of the country, and the Union Government fixes the state-wise coverage within them while the states identify the households.

The Act creates two categories of beneficiary. A priority household receives five kilograms of foodgrain for every member every month, so a family of five draws twenty-five kilograms.