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.
The United Provinces was renamed Uttar Pradesh in which year?
The province known as the United Provinces since 1937 was renamed Uttar Pradesh when the Constitution came into force on 26 January 1950, and the new name kept the familiar initials UP.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about birthplaces is correct?
Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 at Mughalsarai in the Varanasi region of Uttar Pradesh, a town now named Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar; he shares his birthday with Mahatma Gandhi, which is why both are remembered on 2 October.
Read the full explanation →Mother Teresa was born in 1910 at Skopje, which is today the capital of which country?
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa, was born on 26 August 1910 at Skopje, then in the Ottoman Empire and today the capital of North Macedonia.
Read the full explanation →Birsa Munda, the tribal leader of the Ulgulan, was born at Ulihatu, which is now in which state?
Birsa Munda was born in 1875 at Ulihatu in the Khunti district of present-day Jharkhand, then part of the Chotanagpur region of Bengal and later Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, was born at which city?
Guru Gobind Singh was born in 1666 at Patna in Bihar, while his father Guru Tegh Bahadur was travelling in the east, and the gurdwara Takht Sri Patna Sahib marks the site.
Read the full explanation →The physicist C. V. Raman, the first Indian to win a Nobel Prize in science, was born in which present-day state?
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in 1888 at Tiruchirappalli in present-day Tamil Nadu and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light, the discovery announced on 28 February 1928 that is remembered every year as National Science Day.
Read the full explanation →Which pair of leaders was born in the same city?
Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 and his daughter Indira Gandhi on 19 November 1917, both at Allahabad, now Prayagraj, in the family home that Motilal Nehru named Anand Bhavan.
Read the full explanation →Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, was born at which place?
Dr Rajendra Prasad was born on 3 December 1884 at Ziradei, a village in the Siwan district of Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Bhagat Singh was born in the village of Banga, which was then part of the Lyallpur district. Where does this village lie today?
Bhagat Singh was born in 1907 at Banga in the Lyallpur district of undivided Punjab. Lyallpur was renamed Faisalabad after Partition and lies in the Punjab province of Pakistan, so the village of his birth is now in Pakistan.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following leaders was born at Cuttack in present-day Odisha?
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was born on 23 January 1897 at Cuttack in Odisha, where his father Janakinath Bose practised as a lawyer, although the family was Bengali and he was later educated at Calcutta and Cambridge.
Read the full explanation →The birthplace of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, Mhow, is located in which present-day state?
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on 14 April 1891 at Mhow, a military cantonment town in the Indore region of what is now Madhya Pradesh, where his father was serving in the army.
Read the full explanation →Mahatma Gandhi was born at which of the following places?
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 at Porbandar, a coastal town of the Kathiawar region in present-day Gujarat, where his father Karamchand Gandhi served as the diwan of the princely state.
Read the full explanation →Which tree, protected by the Bishnois at Khejarli in 1730, is the state tree of Rajasthan?
The khejri, botanically Prosopis cineraria and called the kalp vriksha of the desert because its pods, leaves and shade all serve desert households, is the state tree of Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →Which title was used by the Rathore rulers of Marwar?
The Rathore rulers of Jodhpur used the title Maharaja, the early ones being styled Rao, as in Rao Jodha and Rao Maldeo.
Read the full explanation →Greater Rajasthan, in which the state of Jodhpur merged, was formed on which date?
The integration of the Rajputana states took place in stages, and in the fourth stage the four large states of Jodhpur, Jaipur, Bikaner and Jaisalmer were merged with the earlier union to form Greater Rajasthan on 30 March 1949, with Jaipur as the capital.
Read the full explanation →Rao Bika, who founded Bikaner in 1488, was the son of which ruler of Marwar?
Rao Bika was a son of Rao Jodha of Jodhpur. He moved north into the Jangladesh region and founded the city and state of Bikaner in 1488, which is why Bikaner and Jodhpur are branches of the same Rathore house; the Junagarh fort at Bikaner was built later by Raja…
Read the full explanation →Jagat Gosain, the mother of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, belonged to which Rajput house?
Manavati Bai, titled Jagat Gosain, was a daughter of Mota Raja Udai Singh of Marwar, the first Rathore ruler to accept the Mughal alliance.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was the first capital of the Rathores of Marwar before Jodhpur?
Mandore, a few kilometres north of the present city of Jodhpur, was obtained by Rao Chunda and served as the Rathore capital until Rao Jodha founded Jodhpur in 1459 and moved to the new fort of Mehrangarh.
Read the full explanation →The Khejarli sacrifice of 1730, in which Amrita Devi Bishnoi and other villagers died protecting trees, took place during the reign of which ruler?
In 1730 the ruler's men came to Khejarli village in the Jodhpur region to fell khejri trees for burning lime for a palace.
Read the full explanation →Veer Durgadas Rathore is remembered in the history of Marwar for which achievement?
After Maharaja Jaswant Singh I died at Jamrud in 1678, Aurangzeb tried to bring Marwar under direct imperial management and to keep the late ruler's posthumous son under control at Delhi.
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