UPSC GK Questions 2026

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 scheme, a component of the National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture, groups farmers into clusters, supports them with training and inputs for organic cultivation, and certifies the produce through the Participatory Guarantee System of India, in which groups of farmers inspect and vouch for one another.

The scheme, launched in 2019, is a voluntary and contributory pension arrangement for small and marginal farmers between eighteen and forty years of age; the farmer contributes a monthly amount that depends on the age of entry, the Union government contributes an equal amount, and a pension of three thousand…

Launched in 2015, it brings irrigation work under one umbrella with the Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme for major and medium projects, Har Khet Ko Pani for creating new sources, Per Drop More Crop for drip and sprinkler micro-irrigation, and watershed development for rainfed areas.

Acting on the report of the R. V. Gupta committee, the scheme was introduced in 1998 and the model was prepared by NABARD for commercial banks, regional rural banks and cooperative banks.

The electronic National Agriculture Market was launched on 14 April 2016 to connect regulated mandis across the States on a single internet platform, so that a trader sitting anywhere can bid for a lot after it is assayed, which widens the market for the farmer and reduces the hold of…

Set up in 1965 as the Agricultural Prices Commission and renamed in 1985, it is an attached office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare that studies costs of production and recommends the minimum support price for the mandated crops; the final decision is taken by the Cabinet Committee…

The scheme was launched on 19 February 2015 from Suratgarh in Sri Ganganagar district, and it gives every holding a card showing the status of the main nutrients and the physical properties of the soil, with crop-wise advice on fertiliser and manure, renewed on a fixed cycle so that the…

The scheme fixed a uniform maximum premium for the farmer: two per cent of the sum insured for kharif food and oilseed crops, one and a half per cent for rabi food and oilseed crops, and five per cent for annual commercial and horticultural crops, with the balance of the…

PM-KISAN pays each eligible landholding farmer family two thousand rupees every four months, that is six thousand rupees a year, straight into an Aadhaar-seeded bank account; the whole cost is borne by the Union government because it is a central sector scheme.

The National Mission for Saffron, meant to revive saffron cultivation in Jammu and Kashmir through better corms, irrigation and a spice park, runs as a sub-scheme of the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, the umbrella fund started in 2007 that lets States plan their own agricultural projects.

PM-KISAN was announced in the interim budget of February 2019 and formally launched on 24 February 2019 from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh, with the first instalment released there, although the scheme was given effect from 1 December 2018.

The Pamir, mostly in Tajikistan, is the knot where the Himalaya, Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Kunlun and Tien Shan meet, and its height and position earned it this name, which is also used for the plateau of Tibet.

Enclosed by the Himalaya in the south, the Karakoram and Kunlun in the north-west and the Chinese mountains in the east, it averages well over four thousand metres and is called the roof of the world along with the Pamir; the Indus, the Sutlej, the Brahmaputra, the Yangtze and the…

The Strait of Hormuz lies between Iran on the north and Oman and the United Arab Emirates on the south, and is the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and so to the Arabian Sea; a very large share of the crude oil traded…