Maharashtra GK MCQ Question and Answer | State Gk MCQ

There are nearly 350 forts in Maharashtra, so it is said that forts are the glory of Maharashtra. Most of these forts are associated with the great Maratha ruler, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. It is believed that he developed as many as thirteen forts.

288 members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected from the single-seat constituencies.

Dnyaneshwar was born in 1275 in a Marathi-speaking Deshastha Brahmin family in Apegaon village on the banks of Godavari River near Paithan in Maharashtra during the reign of the Yadava king Ramadevarava.

In 1534 Portuguese occupied Mumbai. On 23^rd December 1534, the Treaty of Bassein was signed on board the galleon San Mateos. Bassein and the seven islands of Bombay were surrendered later by a treaty of peace and commerce between Bahadur Shah and Nuno da Cunha on 25^th October 1535, permanently ending the Islamic rule on the islands.

Chhatrapati Shivaji assumed the title of 'Haindava-Dharmoddharak' in 1674 AD; Chhatrapati Shivaji was coronated at the capital Raigarh and assumed the title of Haindava Dharmodharak.

The Marathas attacked Goa in 1730. Maratha Invasion of Goa or Sambhaji's Invasion of Goa refers to the invasion of Portuguese controlled portion of contemporary Goa and the northern areas of Konkan.

The Maratha Resurrection was the period between the Third Battle of Panipat on 14^th January 1761 and capture of Najibabad in 1772. In the Third Battle of Panipat, the Maratha Empire suffered a serious blow at the hands of the Muslim alliance of the Durrani Empire, Mughal Empire, under Prince Ali Gohar.

The Third Battle of Panipat took place on 14^th January 1761, at Panipat, about 60 miles north of Delhi between a northern expeditionary force of the Maratha Empire and a coalition of the King of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Durrani with two Indian Muslim allies the Rohilla Afghans of the Doab and Shuja-ud-Daula.

The Treaty of Bassein was signed in 1802. Treaty of Bassein, pact between Baji Rao II, the Maratha peshwa of Poona in India, and the British. It was a decisive step in the breakup of the Maratha confederacy.

Mumbai Samachar was first published in 1822. The Bombay Samachar, now Mumbai Samachar, is the oldest continuously published newspaper in India. Established in 1822 by Fardunjee Marzban, it is published in Gujarati and English.