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.
Maach is the traditional folk theatre of which region of Madhya Pradesh?
Maach is the folk theatre of Malwa, played through the night on a raised wooden platform, which is what the name itself means.
Read the full explanation →The Rai dance, performed by a Bedni dancer to the nagariya drum, belongs to which region of Madhya Pradesh?
Rai is the signature dance of Bundelkhand in the north-east of the state, danced by a woman of the Bedni community who whirls to an accelerating beat of the nagariya and the mridang while the audience calls for more.
Read the full explanation →The Matki dance, performed by women with an earthen pot balanced on the head, belongs to which region?
Matki is danced by the women of Malwa and the adjoining Nimar at weddings and other family celebrations, with an earthen pot held on the head while the dancer turns to the beat of the dhol.
Read the full explanation →In the reign of which ruler of Gwalior was the music treatise Man Kutuhal compiled?
Man Singh Tomar ruled Gwalior at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century and was the great patron of dhrupad, drawing singers to his court and encouraging composition in the spoken language rather than in Sanskrit alone.
Read the full explanation →The Tansen Samaroh, the state's best known music festival, is held every year at
The Tansen Samaroh is held in the winter at the musician's birthplace of Behat and at his tomb in Gwalior, and the National Tansen Samman for Hindustani classical music is conferred during it.
Read the full explanation →Tansen, counted among the navratna of Akbar's court, was born at Behat near which city?
Tansen was born Ramtanu Pandey in the village of Behat near Gwalior, learnt from Swami Haridas of Vrindavan and from the Sufi Muhammad Ghaus of Gwalior, served the court of Rewa and was then taken by Akbar into his own court, where he was counted among the nine jewels.
Read the full explanation →The Chhathi songs and dance of Haryana are performed on
Chhathi takes its name from the number six, and the ceremony falls on the sixth day after a birth, when the mother and the newborn are brought out, the household is purified and the women of the family and the neighbourhood sing and dance in the courtyard.
Read the full explanation →In a traditional Saang performance, the women's roles were
A traditional Saang troupe was made up entirely of men, and the younger singers took the women's parts in costume, singing the same raginis in a higher register.
Read the full explanation →Pandit Jasraj, born in a village of Haryana, belonged to which gharana of Hindustani classical music?
Pandit Jasraj was born in a village of Haryana into a family of musicians and became the best known voice of the Mewati gharana, which takes its name from the Mewat region on the Haryana and Rajasthan border.
Read the full explanation →Which is the characteristic verse-song form of Haryana, sung within a Saang performance and also on its own?
The Ragini is the stanza song of Haryana, built on a fixed refrain to which the singer returns after every verse.
Read the full explanation →The Gugga dance of Haryana is performed in which month of the Hindu calendar?
The Gugga or Gugga Naumi observance falls in the month of Bhadon, when the followers of Gugga Pir, the folk deity associated with protection from snakes, carry the chhari, a tall staff decorated with peacock feathers and coloured cloth, from village to village, dancing and singing his ballad as they…
Read the full explanation →On which occasion is the Khoria dance of Haryana performed?
Khoria is danced by the women of the household among themselves once the men have set out with the wedding procession.
Read the full explanation →The Loor dance, in which two facing groups of women sing in question and answer, belongs to which tract of Haryana?
Loor belongs to the sandy Bagar country of the south-west of the state, around Bhiwani and Mahendragarh, and is danced by women and girls in the month of Phalgun and at Holi, when the spring crop is standing.
Read the full explanation →The Dhamal dance of Haryana is performed mainly by
Dhamal is counted the oldest dance of Haryana and belongs mainly to the Mahendragarh and Jhajjar belt, where the men of the village gather on the open ground on a full moon night of the Phalgun season, form a wide circle and dance to the beat of the dhamal drum…
Read the full explanation →Which poet of Haryana is honoured as the Surya Kavi and called the Shakespeare of Haryana?
Lakhmi Chand is the best known Saang poet of Haryana, honoured as the Surya Kavi or sun poet and commonly called the Shakespeare of Haryana for the range of his plays and the quality of his raginis.
Read the full explanation →Who gave the Saang folk theatre of Haryana its settled form in the eighteenth century?
Pandit Deepchand is the first great name in the history of Saang and is credited with turning a loose village entertainment into a sung play with a structure: an opening invocation, a story carried in verse, prose passages between the songs and a troupe built around the poet.
Read the full explanation →Which city of Bihar is known for its tussar silk weaving and is called the silk city?
Bhagalpur on the Ganga has woven tussar silk for centuries and is called the silk city of Bihar; its handloom weavers produce the coarse golden silk from cocoons reared on forest trees, and the city is a cluster for silk furnishing and sari weaving.
Read the full explanation →Manjusha art of Bihar is also known by which other name?
Manjusha is called snake painting because the serpent of the Bishahari legend is its ruling motif: snakes fill the panels, and the borders carry a continuous wavy line that reads as a serpent, one of the border patterns being named lahariya, the wave.
Read the full explanation →The Patna Kalam school of painting developed as an offshoot of
The Patna Kalam was made by families of painters trained in the Mughal manner who left Delhi and Murshidabad in the eighteenth century and settled at Patna.
Read the full explanation →The Sikki craft of the Mithila region is made from
Sikki is a reed grass of the wetlands of north Bihar whose stalks turn a bright golden colour when dried.
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