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 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 →In which of the following year was the first general election held in India?
India's first general election was spread over the winter of 1951 and 1952 and is dated 1952, the year the first Lok Sabha and the first set of state legislative assemblies were constituted.
Read the full explanation →Under the scheme recommended by the High Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections, if the Lok Sabha or a state assembly is dissolved before completing its term, the fresh election that follows would be held for which period?
The committee recommended that where a House has to be dissolved early, because of a hung House or a no-confidence motion for example, the mid-term election should be for the remainder of the five-year period of the House that was dissolved, which the report calls the unexpired term.
Read the full explanation →The 79th Report on the feasibility of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies, submitted in December 2015, was the report of which body?
Its 79th Report of December 2015 examined the feasibility of holding simultaneous elections, found the idea workable and suggested that the polls be held in two phases within a five-year cycle so that the number of election years could be cut down.
Read the full explanation →The superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls and the conduct of elections to Parliament and the state legislatures is vested in the Election Commission by which Article?
Article 324 vests in the Election Commission the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of the electoral rolls for, and the conduct of, all elections to Parliament and to the legislature of every state, and of elections to the offices of President and Vice-President.
Read the full explanation →The duration of a state legislative assembly is laid down in which Article of the Constitution?
Article 172(1) provides that every legislative assembly of a state shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer, with the same Emergency proviso that applies to the Lok Sabha, so an assembly term can be extended by one year at a time…
Read the full explanation →While a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, by how much may Parliament extend the term of the Lok Sabha by law under Article 83(2)?
The proviso to Article 83(2) allows Parliament to extend the term of the Lok Sabha by law for a period not exceeding one year at a time while a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, and the extension cannot in any case continue beyond a period of six months after…
Read the full explanation →The High Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections recommended that elections to the panchayats and municipalities be held within how many days of the general election to the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies?
The committee proposed a synchronisation in two steps: first the Lok Sabha and all the state legislative assemblies would go to the polls together, and then elections to the local bodies, that is the panchayats and the municipalities, would be held within a hundred days of that poll.
Read the full explanation →The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024 proposes to insert which new Article to provide for the appointed date and the synchronisation of assembly terms?
The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, introduced in the Lok Sabha on 17 December 2024, proposes a new Article 82A under which the President notifies an appointed date on the first sitting of the Lok Sabha after a general election, and the term of every assembly constituted…
Read the full explanation →Which report of the Law Commission of India, submitted in 1999 on the reform of the electoral laws, recommended holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies?
The Law Commission of India, in its 170th Report on Reform of the Electoral Laws in 1999, recommended that there should be one single election for the Lok Sabha and all the legislative assemblies once in five years, and the Commission returned to the subject in a draft report in…
Read the full explanation →The High Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections, which submitted its report in March 2024, was chaired by which of the following?
The High Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections was constituted on 2 September 2023 under the chairmanship of former President Ram Nath Kovind and submitted its report on 14 March 2024, recommending a two-step synchronisation of elections and a single electoral roll.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the last general election held simultaneously for the Lok Sabha and all the state legislative assemblies?
The first four general elections, in 1951-52, 1957, 1962 and 1967, were held simultaneously for Parliament and the state assemblies, and 1967 was the last of them.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Constitution of India fixes the term of the Lok Sabha at five years from the date appointed for its first meeting?
Article 83(2) provides that the House of the People shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer, and that the expiration of that period operates as a dissolution of the House; it also allows Parliament to extend the term by up to…
Read the full explanation →India's first satellite, launched in 1975, was named after which ancient Indian astronomer and mathematician?
India's first satellite, launched in 1975, was named Aryabhata after the astronomer who wrote the Aryabhatiya in 499 CE, explained day and night by the rotation of the earth on its axis and gave a value of pi equivalent to 3.1416.
Read the full explanation →The Brihat-trayi, the three great texts of Ayurveda, consists of the Charaka Samhita, the Sushruta Samhita and which third work?
The Brihat-trayi or great triad of Ayurveda is made up of the Charaka Samhita on internal medicine, the Sushruta Samhita on surgery and the Ashtanga Hridaya of Vagbhata, who also wrote the Ashtanga Sangraha.
Read the full explanation →Madhava of Sangamagrama, who obtained infinite series for pi and for the sine and cosine functions, is associated with which school of mathematics and astronomy?
Madhava of Sangamagrama, who lived around the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, founded the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics, whose members obtained infinite series expansions for pi and for the sine and cosine, anticipating results that Europe reached much later; Nilakantha Somayaji of the same school wrote the Tantrasamgraha in…
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