Static GK is the largest part of General Studies in every state exam, and most of it is national. Indian polity, history and the national movement, geography of India, the Indian economy and general science appear in the syllabus of UPPSC PCS and PET, BPSC and BSSC, RPSC and RSSB, MPPSC and MPESB, HPSC and HSSC, and DSSSB and Delhi Police. The level changes from exam to exam. PET sets its subjects at NCERT secondary and senior secondary level, BSSC asks matric-level science, and RPSC sets the RAS Prelims at Bachelor's degree standard. This page brings together GK24's topic-wise GK notes tagged for state exams. Each note covers one topic in English and Hindi, as short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting, and ends with multiple-choice questions and explanations. Start with Polity, History and Geography, then move to the Economy and Science. GK24 does not have state GK sections. As guidance, use these notes for the national part and prepare your state's history, geography, culture, economy and schemes from state board textbooks, the state budget and economic survey, and the commission's past papers. After each note, take its topic quiz and mark what you got wrong.
Punjabi was made the second official language of Haryana in which year?
Hindi is the official language of Haryana, settled by the Haryana Official Language Act of 1969, and an amendment to that law in 2010 gave Punjabi the position of second official language of the state.
Read the full explanation →Mewati, one of the dialects of Haryana, is spoken chiefly in which district?
Mewati is the speech of the Mewat tract, which centres on Nuh district and extends into parts of Palwal and Faridabad and across the border into Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →The Ahirwati dialect is spoken in which part of Haryana?
Ahirwati, also called Hirwati, is the speech of the Ahirwal tract in the south of the state, which covers Rewari, Mahendragarh and parts of Gurugram.
Read the full explanation →The Bagri dialect of Haryana is spoken chiefly in which districts?
Bagri is spoken in the south-western corner of the state, in Sirsa and Fatehabad and parts of Hisar, where Haryana meets Rajasthan and Punjab, and it is close enough to Rajasthani speech that it is often described as a Rajasthani dialect carried into Haryana.
Read the full explanation →In the Linguistic Survey of India by George Abraham Grierson, the speech of the Haryana region is recorded under which name?
Grierson, who conducted the Linguistic Survey of India, placed the speech of the central districts of this region under Western Hindi with the name Bangaru, and that remains its standard scholarly name.
Read the full explanation →Haryanvi is classed as a dialect of which group of Indo-Aryan speech?
Haryanvi belongs to the Central or Western Hindi group of Indo-Aryan, which descends from Shauraseni Apabhramsha and also contains Khari Boli, Braj and Bundeli.
Read the full explanation →The Malmas Mela of Bihar, held in an extra month that returns about once in three years, takes place at which site?
Rajgir, the old capital of Magadha in Nalanda district, holds the Malmas Mela in the intercalary month called Malmas or Adhimas, which returns about once in three years.
Read the full explanation →The Bihula Bishahari festival, which worships the snake goddess, is celebrated mainly in which region of Bihar?
Bihula Bishahari is the snake festival of the old Anga country, the belt around Bhagalpur, in which the goddess is worshipped as Bishahari and the sung story of Bihula, the young wife who is said to have brought her husband Bala Lakhandar back to life, is performed through the nights…
Read the full explanation →The Pitrapaksha Mela, when families offer pind daan for their ancestors, is held in which town of Bihar?
Gaya holds the Pitrapaksha Mela in the dark half of Ashwin, when families come from across the country to offer pind daan at the Vishnupad temple and at the appointed spots along the Falgu river.
Read the full explanation →Sama Chakeva, in which sisters make clay birds and sing farewell songs for their brothers, belongs to which region of Bihar?
Sama Chakeva is a festival of the Mithila region of north Bihar, beginning on Kartik Purnima, when the migratory birds arrive.
Read the full explanation →During the Shravani Mela, kanwariyas carry Ganga water from which place in Bihar to the Baidyanath shrine at Deoghar?
Sultanganj in Bhagalpur district is the starting point of the Shravani Mela.
Read the full explanation →The Sonepur fair, described as the largest cattle fair in Asia, begins on which day?
The Harihar Kshetra fair at Sonepur opens on the full moon of Kartik and runs for about a month, with cattle, horses, birds and handicrafts on sale, a theatre ground, and traders from several states.
Read the full explanation →The Sonepur fair is held at the confluence of which two rivers?
Sonepur in Saran district lies opposite Patna at the point where the Gandak, coming down from Nepal, joins the Ganga, and the fair is held on that bank from Kartik Purnima.
Read the full explanation →Which is the chief prasad of Chhath, made of wheat flour and jaggery?
Thekua is a hard sweet made from wheat flour and jaggery, fried in ghee or oil and pressed in a wooden mould, and it is the offering most closely identified with Chhath.
Read the full explanation →The main worship of Chhath falls on which day of the month of Kartik?
The festival takes its very name from shashthi, the sixth day of the bright half of Kartik, on which the evening offering to the setting sun is made.
Read the full explanation →The Chhath festival of Bihar is dedicated chiefly to which deity?
Chhath is kept for the Sun God, Surya, along with Chhathi Maiya, and the whole ritual is built around the sun: the vratis stand in water and offer arghya, that is water and prasad, first to the setting sun on the evening of shashthi and then to the rising sun…
Read the full explanation →Which Nawab of Awadh, writing under the pen name Akhtarpiya, composed thumris and devised the Rahas dance drama?
The last Nawab of Awadh was a trained dancer and a prolific writer who composed thumris under the pen name Akhtarpiya, among them the celebrated Babul mora naihar chhuto hi jaye, and who devised the Rahas, a court dance drama on the Krishna theme that drew on Raslila.
Read the full explanation →Raslila, the dance drama on the life of Krishna in which the actors are called swarups, belongs to which region?
Raslila enacts the childhood and the rasa of Krishna in the land of his legend, mixing sung verse, dance and spoken dialogue.
Read the full explanation →Alha, the heroic ballad of Alha and Udal, is the folk song tradition of which region?
Alha is sung in the Bundelkhandi region of southern Uttar Pradesh and the adjoining districts of Madhya Pradesh, especially around Mahoba, and it narrates the battles of the warrior brothers Alha and Udal of the Chandela court.
Read the full explanation →The Marris College of Hindustani Music, now Bhatkhande Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, was founded at Lucknow in 1926 by
Bhatkhande was the musicologist who collected and notated Hindustani compositions and arranged the ragas into the ten thaat system still taught in schools.
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