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.
When did Veer Kunwar Singh die?
Kunwar Singh was wounded in the fighting of his last campaign and died at Jagdishpur on 26 April 1858, three days after his victory over Captain Le Grand.
Read the full explanation →On 23 April 1858 Veer Kunwar Singh defeated which British officer in the forest at Jagdishpur?
Returning to his own district in the spring of 1858, Kunwar Singh met and defeated the force under Captain Le Grand in the forest near Jagdishpur on 23 April 1858 and re-entered his capital.
Read the full explanation →Which British officer relieved the besieged garrison at Arrah in August 1857?
A first relief column sent towards Arrah was ambushed and driven back, and it was the column under Major Vincent Eyre that defeated Kunwar Singh at Bibiganj in early August 1857, raised the siege of the house at Arrah and then went on to destroy Jagdishpur.
Read the full explanation →The sepoys who mutinied at Danapur on 25 July 1857 marched to which town, where Kunwar Singh took their command?
The three regiments of Indian sepoys at Danapur cantonment near Patna rose on 25 July 1857, crossed the Son river and reached Arrah, the headquarters of Shahabad district, where Kunwar Singh joined them and took command.
Read the full explanation →Veer Kunwar Singh, the leader of the revolt of 1857 in Bihar, was the zamindar of which place?
Kunwar Singh belonged to the Ujjainiya Rajput house of Jagdishpur in Shahabad district, a district since divided, so that Jagdishpur now falls in Bhojpur district of Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Lord Canning read the Queen's Proclamation of 1 November 1858, which transferred the government of India to the Crown, at which city?
Canning read the Queen's Proclamation at a durbar at Allahabad on 1 November 1858.
Read the full explanation →Which British commander finally recaptured Lucknow in March 1858?
Campbell, the Commander in Chief, had already relieved the Residency at the end of 1857 and returned with a large force to retake Lucknow in March 1858, after which the rebel hold on Awadh and Rohilkhand was broken.
Read the full explanation →On what ground did Lord Dalhousie annex Awadh in 1856, a step that deepened the discontent of 1857?
Awadh had been a loyal ally of the Company for decades and had an heir, so the Doctrine of Lapse could not be applied; Dalhousie therefore annexed it in 1856 on the plea that it was badly governed, and Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was pensioned off and exiled to Calcutta.
Read the full explanation →Which leader of the revolt is remembered as the Maulvi of Faizabad?
Known as the Maulvi of Faizabad, he had been preaching against Company rule before 1857 and was in prison when the revolt broke out.
Read the full explanation →The revolt of 1857 at Bareilly was led by which leader?
He was a grandson of the Rohilla chief Hafiz Rahmat Khan and had served as a judicial officer under the Company before the revolt.
Read the full explanation →Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was killed in action in June 1858 near which place?
After Hugh Rose took the fort of Jhansi in April 1858 the Rani escaped, joined Tatya Tope, and with him seized Gwalior from the Scindia's forces.
Read the full explanation →At Lucknow, Begum Hazrat Mahal led the revolt after proclaiming whom as Nawab of Awadh?
Begum Hazrat Mahal, a wife of the deposed Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, had her young son Birjis Qadr proclaimed Nawab of Awadh in 1857 and led the resistance at Lucknow, where the British were besieged in the Residency and the Chief Commissioner Henry Lawrence was killed.
Read the full explanation →Who led the revolt of 1857 at Kanpur?
Dhondu Pant, known as Nana Saheb, was the adopted son of the last Peshwa Baji Rao II, and the Company had refused him his father's pension and titles under the Doctrine of Lapse.
Read the full explanation →Mangal Pandey, the sepoy who attacked his officers at Barrackpore in March 1857, belonged to which district of present Uttar Pradesh?
Mangal Pandey came from Nagwa village in Ballia district of eastern Uttar Pradesh and served in the 34th Native Infantry.
Read the full explanation →The revolt of 1857 began with the rising of the sepoys on 10 May 1857 at which cantonment?
On 10 May 1857 the sepoys of the 3rd Light Cavalry at Meerut rose in revolt, released the comrades who had been imprisoned for refusing the greased cartridge, killed their officers and marched on Delhi the next day, where they proclaimed Bahadur Shah Zafar emperor of Hindustan.
Read the full explanation →Which Act declared the Indian Institutes of Management to be Institutions of National Importance and allowed them to award degrees?
Before it, the IIMs were registered societies that could give only post graduate diplomas, which created difficulty for students who wanted to go on to research degrees abroad.
Read the full explanation →IIT Roorkee, made an IIT in 2001, was converted from which earlier institution?
That institution began in 1847 as the Thomason College of Civil Engineering, built to train engineers for the Ganga canal works, became the University of Roorkee in 1949 and was converted into IIT Roorkee in 2001, making it the seventh IIT and the one with the longest history behind it.
Read the full explanation →The Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, under which new AIIMS were sanctioned, was launched in which year?
The Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana was launched in 2003 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with two aims: to correct the uneven spread of good tertiary care across the country and to raise the number of medical seats.
Read the full explanation →The committee whose 1946 report led to the setting up of the Indian Institutes of Technology was headed by whom?
The committee he headed in 1946 recommended higher technical institutions on the model of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be placed in different parts of the country, and the first of them opened at Kharagpur in 1951.
Read the full explanation →The recommendation for a national medical institute, which led to the founding of AIIMS, came from which committee?
The Health Survey and Development Committee of 1946, chaired by Sir Joseph Bhore, examined the health services of the country and recommended, among much else, a national medical centre that would set the standard for teaching and research.
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