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l3cube-pune/IndicQuest-v2

IndicQuest v2 A gold-standard multilingual question-answering benchmark for evaluating the India-specific factual knowledge of Large Language Models. 3,471 curriculum-grounded English question–answer pairs across nine domains, translated into 19 Indic languages: 69,420 parallel pairs across 20 languages. More details can be found in our paper. Dataset structure One CSV per language, named <language>.csv (english.csv, hindi.csv, marathi.csv, …). Every file has the… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/l3cube-pune/IndicQuest-v2.

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IndicQuest v2

A gold-standard multilingual question-answering benchmark for evaluating the India-specific factual knowledge of Large Language Models. 3,471 curriculum-grounded English question–answer pairs across nine domains, translated into 19 Indic languages: 69,420 parallel pairs across 20 languages.

More details can be found in our paper.

Dataset structure

One CSV per language, named <language>.csv (english.csv, hindi.csv, marathi.csv, …). Every file has the same 3,471 rows in the same order, so the nth row of any file is the translation of the nth row of english.csv.

ColumnDescription
questionThe question, in the file's language
answerGold answer, one to five words
DomainOne of nine domains (see below)

Domains

DomainPairs
Culture534
History510
Geography499
Law494
Political Science450
Science325
Sports273
Art233
Commercial Studies153
Total3,471

Languages

English plus Assamese, Bengali, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Meitei (Manipuri), Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.

Example

questionanswerDomain
Which apex body was set up in 1982 to coordinate all institutions involved in the rural financing system?NABARDCommercial Studies
Which river's water is primarily harnessed by the Ukai project in India?Tapi riverGeography
Which is the oldest football tournament in India, established by Sir Mortimer Durand and held from 1888 in Simla?Durand CupSports

Usage

python
from datasets import load_dataset

english = load_dataset("l3cube-pune/IndicQuest-v2", data_files="english.csv")
hindi   = load_dataset("l3cube-pune/IndicQuest-v2", data_files="hindi.csv")

Citing

@article{jain2026l3cube,
  title={L3Cube-IndicQuest v2: A Large-Scale Multilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Factual Knowledge of Large Language Models Across Indic Languages},
  author={Jain, Rinit and Mahajan, Tirthraj and Joshi, Advait and Joshi, Raviraj},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.15535},
  year={2026}
}