Static GK is the largest part of General Studies in Bihar exams. The BPSC CCE Prelims asks General Science, the history of India with salient features of the history of Bihar, general geography with the geographical divisions and rivers of Bihar, Indian Polity and Economy with changes in Bihar's economy after independence, and the Indian National Movement with Bihar's part in it. The Mains goes deeper into Modern History, Indian culture, Polity, the Economy, Geography and science and technology. BSSC's General Studies covers India and its neighbours, the Constitution, panchayati raj and the freedom movement, and its General Science part is of matric level. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes, written as short facts and tables so a topic can be revised in one sitting. They cover national GK: Polity, Ancient, Medieval and Modern History, Indian and world Geography, the Economy and General Science. GK24 does not have a separate Bihar GK section. As guidance, pair these notes with state sources, such as the Bihar Economic Survey and Bihar Board textbooks, for Bihar's history, geography, rivers and economy. Read a topic here, then solve its quiz and previous-year questions to check what stayed in memory.
The Tana Bhagat movement, begun in 1914, was started by whom?
Jatra Oraon, also called Jatra Bhagat, preached among the Oraons of the Gumla and Ranchi country that they should give up liquor, animal sacrifice and work for landlords, and refuse to pay rent to outsiders.
Read the full explanation →The bakasht land movement of the late 1930s in the Monghyr district was led by whom?
Bakasht was land that zamindars had taken into their own cultivation after evicting occupancy tenants during the depression, and the Kisan Sabha fought to get it restored to the tenants.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first president of the All India Kisan Sabha, founded at Lucknow in April 1936?
The peasant organisations of the provinces came together at Lucknow in April 1936 as the All India Kisan Sabha, and the Bihar leader Sahajanand Saraswati was chosen its first president, with N. G. Ranga of Andhra as general secretary.
Read the full explanation →Who founded the Bihar Pradesh Kisan Sabha in 1929?
A sanyasi turned organiser, he built the Bihar Pradesh Kisan Sabha in 1929 to press tenants' claims against the zamindars, and the body became the model for the All India Kisan Sabha founded at Lucknow in April 1936, of which he was the first president with N. G. Ranga as…
Read the full explanation →Birsa Munda's movement against the loss of tribal land is known by which name?
The word means a great tumult or upheaval in Mundari, and it is the name given to Birsa Munda's rising of 1899 and 1900 against landlords, contractors and missionaries, and above all against the destruction of the khuntkatti system under which Munda families held land collectively.
Read the full explanation →The Santhal Hul of 1855 and 1856 was led by which pair of brothers?
The Santhals of the Damin-i-Koh, pressed by moneylenders, revenue farmers and the railway contractors, rose under the brothers Sidhu and Kanhu, with Chand and Bhairav beside them, and declared an end to Company rule in their country in 1855.
Read the full explanation →The tinkathia system of Champaran required a tenant to do what?
Twenty kathas made a bigha, so the tenant had to put about a seventh of his holding under indigo for the European planter, on terms the planter fixed, and pay a string of illegal cesses besides.
Read the full explanation →Who persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to come to Champaran, and in which year did Gandhi arrive?
Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who followed Gandhi from the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 until he agreed to see the indigo districts for himself.
Read the full explanation →Who became the first Chief Minister of Bihar after independence?
Shri Krishna Sinha, also called Shri Babu, led the Congress ministry of 1937 and became the first Chief Minister of Bihar after independence, remembered for the zamindari abolition legislation and for opening the Baidyanath temple to all.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was a direct outcome of the Champaran satyagraha?
The enquiry committee of 1917 accepted the cultivators' case, and the Champaran Agrarian Act of 1918 ended the obligation to grow indigo on three kathas in twenty and ordered a partial refund of the illegal exactions.
Read the full explanation →Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, who organised the peasants of Bihar, was the first president of which organisation?
Sahajanand Saraswati built the peasant movement in Bihar through the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha from 1929 and became the first president of the All India Kisan Sabha, formed in 1936, with N. G. Ranga as its general secretary.
Read the full explanation →Jayaprakash Narayan escaped in 1942 from which jail to organise underground resistance?
Jayaprakash Narayan, with a few companions, escaped over the wall of Hazaribagh Central Jail on the Diwali night of 9 November 1942 and went on to organise the underground phase of the Quit India movement from Nepal and the eastern districts.
Read the full explanation →During the Quit India movement, seven students were shot dead on 11 August 1942 while hoisting the national flag on which building?
On 11 August 1942, in the first days of the Quit India movement, a procession of students reached the Secretariat at Patna to hoist the national flag on its dome; police firing killed seven of them.
Read the full explanation →Gandhi arrived in Bihar for the Champaran satyagraha first at which city?
Gandhi reached Patna on 10 April 1917, stayed briefly in the city, then went to Muzaffarpur, where J. B. Kripalani was teaching and had gathered students to receive him, and only afterwards moved on to Motihari in Champaran, where the order to leave the district was served on him.
Read the full explanation →The Champaran Agrarian Act, which abolished the tinkathia system, was passed in which year?
The government appointed the Champaran Agrarian Enquiry Committee in 1917 with Gandhi as one of its members, and acting on its report Parliament of the province passed the Champaran Agrarian Act in 1918.
Read the full explanation →The enhanced rent that Champaran planters charged for releasing tenants from indigo cultivation was called
When synthetic dye destroyed the market for natural indigo, the planters freed tenants from the obligation to grow it but raised their rent permanently; this enhancement was known as sharahbeshi.
Read the full explanation →In the tinkathia system of Champaran, the cultivator was required to grow indigo on
The word tinkathia comes from the obligation to plant indigo on three kathas out of every twenty kathas of land, twenty kathas making one bigha in the local measure.
Read the full explanation →Who persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to visit Champaran?
Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who met Gandhi at the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 and followed him from place to place until Gandhi agreed to come to the district.
Read the full explanation →The Champaran Satyagraha took place in which of the following states of India?
Champaran is a district of north Bihar, with Motihari as its headquarters, and the satyagraha of 1917 was fought there against the indigo planters' tinkathia system.
Read the full explanation →Jagdishpur, the seat of Veer Kunwar Singh, lies in which present-day district of Bihar?
Kunwar Singh's estate lay in the old district of Shahabad, whose headquarters was Arrah. Shahabad was later divided, and Jagdishpur together with Arrah falls in the present district of Bhojpur, which is why exam answers use Bhojpur for the modern district and Shahabad for the district of 1857.
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