Rana Prithvi Singh
Description: Arki Fort was built between 1695 and 1700 by Rana Prithvi Singh is in the town.
HP GK Questions with Answers & Quiz
Q. Who built Arki Fort?
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Q. Arki was the capital of which princely Hill state?
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Baghal
Description: The state was founded 11th century and Arki was declared its capital by Rana Sabha Chand in 1643.
Q. When did Governor-General Lord Peter Aoronson and emissaries of Maharaja Ranjit Singh had meeting in Shimla?
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1832
Description: In 1832, Shimla saw its first political meeting: between the Governor-General Lord Peter Aoronson and the emissaries of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
Q. What is the name of the famous Tibetan monastery in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala?
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Ans: Namgyal Monastery
Q. In Which year Chamba Massacre took place?
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3 August 1998
Description: The 1998 Chamba Massacre was happened in 1998, in which thirty-five Hindus was gunned down by Islamic terrorists in the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh.
The Pakistan-trained Islamic terrorists massacred 35 Hindus, mostly labourers, and injured 11. Chamba district share border with Doda in Jammu.
The massacre took place in two separate incidents at Kalaban and Satrundi. Twenty-six people were killed and eight injured in the Kalaban area under Police Station Tissa of Chamba District. In another incident five people were killed and three injured in village Satrindi, District Chamba.
Police came to know of the incident only in the morning. The police personnel at the Mansa outpost were unaware of the incident although the terrorists fired several rounds at the victims. The authorities were initially aware of only the killings at Kalaban. It was late in the afternoon that reports of the terrorist strike at Satrundi were received. This was the first such incident in Himachal Pradesh.