Indian General Knowledge for Competitive Exams

Nagarjunacharya was a prominent Buddhist philosopher who is widely credited with the propagation and formalization of the Mahayana school of Buddhism.

Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha, had a son named Rahul before he renounced his worldly life.

The order of planets from the Sun is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Venus is the second planet.

The Kushan dynasty, particularly under rulers like Vima Kadphises, is credited with introducing gold and silver coins into the Indian economy on a large scale.

Rajatarangini is a historical chronicle of the kings of Kashmir, written in Sanskrit by the historian Kalhana in the 12th century.

Sonia Gandhi has served as the President of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) for several terms, including re-elections.

The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous range of mountains along India's eastern coast.

The Western Ghats, which run along the western coast of India, are locally known as the Sahyadri range in Maharashtra and Karnataka.

The Sutlej River is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab and is a major tributary of the Indus (Sindhu) River.

A peninsula is a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water; India is surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, and the Bay of Bengal.

While the origin of the Indus Valley Civilization is a subject of ongoing research, the Dravidian theory suggests that the inhabitants were the ancestors of modern Dravidian speakers.

Africa is often referred to as the 'plateau continent' because the vast majority of its landmass consists of elevated plateaus.

Andhra Pradesh was created in 1953 as the first linguistic state in India, separated from Madras State based on Telugu language speakers (Sriramulu's fast-unto-death). This was the first time India reorganized states on linguistic basis, followed by the States Reorganisation Act of 1956.

Satyendranath Tagore (brother of Rabindranath Tagore) was the first Indian to pass the ICS (Indian Civil Service) examination in 1863. The ICS was the elite administrative service under British Raj. This was a significant achievement as Indians were initially discouraged from taking the exam.

Geological evidence shows that the Tethys Sea existed between the Indian and Eurasian plates before the collision that formed the Himalayas.

The Taj Mahal is widely celebrated as the pinnacle of Mughal architecture and is often referred to as the jewel of Muslim art in India. The other options are significant monuments but do not carry this specific title.

Stamp duties are taxes levied by the Central Government under Article 268 of the Constitution, but they are collected and appropriated by the respective State Governments. Other options like Income Tax are both levied and collected by the Centre.

Saina Nehwal became the first Indian badminton player to win an Olympic medal when she secured the bronze at the 2012 London Olympics. P.V. Sindhu won her first medal in 2016.

In the epic Ramayana, Lord Rama broke the divine bow of Lord Shiva, known as the Pinaka, to win the hand of Sita in marriage during her Swayamvaram.