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.
Who is named as the chief architect of the Taj Mahal?
Ustad Ahmad Lahauri is the architect named in the Mughal record as the chief designer of the Taj Mahal, the tomb Shah Jahan raised at Agra for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Read the full explanation →The dahsala or zabti system of land revenue in Akbar's reign was framed by whom?
Raja Todar Mal, Akbar's revenue minister, completed the dahsala or zabti settlement in 1580. It measured the cultivated land, classified it by how regularly it was cropped, and fixed the state demand in cash from the average produce and prices of the previous ten years, which is what dahsala means.
Read the full explanation →In which year did Akbar proclaim the Din-i-Ilahi?
Akbar proclaimed the Din-i-Ilahi, an order of ethical devotion drawing on several faiths, in 1582, after years of discussion with scholars of different religions.
Read the full explanation →Whom did Babur defeat in the First Battle of Panipat in 1526?
At the First Battle of Panipat in 1526 Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last sultan of the Lodi dynasty of Delhi, who was killed on the field.
Read the full explanation →Who was the Mughal emperor during the Third Battle of Panipat?
The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in 1761 between Ahmad Shah Abdali of Afghanistan and the Marathas, who were defeated.
Read the full explanation →Which Mughal emperor is known by the name of Rangila?
Muhammad Shah, who ruled from 1719 to 1748, was nicknamed Rangila for his love of music, painting and pleasure while the empire fell apart around him.
Read the full explanation →Which Mughal emperor built the city called Maksudabad, later popularly known as Murshidabad?
The town on the Bhagirathi that later became Murshidabad was founded as Maksudabad in the reign of Akbar, and it kept that name until the Bengal governor Murshid Quli Khan shifted his seat there in the early eighteenth century and renamed it after himself.
Read the full explanation →Who was the Mughal Emperor at the time of Battle of Plassey?
The Battle of Plassey was fought in 1757 between Robert Clive of the East India Company and Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following options have the correct sequence of the Mughal emperors chronologically?
The Mughal throne passed from Babur, who ruled from 1526 to 1530, to his son Humayun from 1530 to 1540 and again from 1555 to 1556, then to Akbar from 1556 to 1605, to Jahangir from 1605 to 1627, to Shah Jahan from 1628 to 1658 and to Aurangzeb from…
Read the full explanation →Special Drawing Rights, which form part of a country's foreign exchange reserves, are issued by
Special drawing rights are an international reserve asset created by the IMF and allotted to member countries in proportion to their quotas; a member can exchange them with other members for usable currencies.
Read the full explanation →The Tarapore Committee is associated with which of the following?
The committee headed by S. S. Tarapore reported in 1997 and again in 2006 and set out a phased road map for making the rupee convertible on the capital account, together with the preconditions to be met first, such as fiscal discipline, low and stable inflation and a strong banking…
Read the full explanation →A depreciation of the Indian rupee against the US dollar is likely to
When the rupee depreciates, each dollar buys more rupees, so an Indian good priced in rupees costs a foreign buyer fewer dollars and exports become more competitive, while every imported item costs more rupees than before.
Read the full explanation →The exchange rate system followed by India at present is best described as
Since the unification of the exchange rate in March 1993 the value of the rupee has been determined by demand and supply in the foreign exchange market, while the Reserve Bank intervenes by buying or selling dollars to curb sharp volatility rather than to defend any particular level.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is not a component of India's foreign exchange reserves?
Small savings such as deposits in post office schemes are domestic rupee liabilities of the government and have nothing to do with the country's external assets.
Read the full explanation →In which year did India accept the obligations of Article VIII of the IMF, making the rupee fully convertible on the current account?
India accepted the obligations of Article VIII of the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund in August 1994, which means the rupee can be exchanged freely for trade in goods and services, travel, education, remittances and interest payments.
Read the full explanation →The Foreign Exchange Management Act, FEMA, replaced which of the following laws?
FERA treated foreign exchange as a scarce resource, forbade most dealings unless permitted and made breaches criminal offences.
Read the full explanation →What challenge does foreign investment often face in India?
Foreign investors bring in foreign exchange and look for predictable rules, and the difficulty most often listed for India is regulatory uncertainty: changing rules, clearances spread across departments and states, and disputes that take long to settle.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements: 1. Tight monetary policy of US Federal Reserve could lead to capital flight. 2. Capital flight may increase the interest cost of firms with existing External Commercial Borrowings (ECBs). 3. Devaluation of domestic currency decreases the currency risk associated with ECBs. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 1 is right because when the United States Federal Reserve tightens, returns there become attractive and portfolio money flows out of emerging markets, which is capital flight.
Read the full explanation →With reference to the Indian economy, consider the following statements: 1. An increase in the Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) indicates the appreciation of rupee. 2. An increase in the Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) indicates an improvement in trade competitiveness. 3. An increasing trend in domestic inflation relative to inflation in other countries is likely to cause an increasing divergence between NEER and REER. Which of the above statements are correct?
Statement 1 is right because the NEER is a trade weighted index of the rupee against a basket of partner currencies, so a rise in the index means the rupee has appreciated in nominal terms.
Read the full explanation →Under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, which group of rivers was allotted to India for unrestricted use?
The Indus Waters Treaty, signed in 1960 with the World Bank as a party to the arrangement, gave India the unrestricted use of the three eastern rivers, the Ravi, the Beas and the Sutlej, and gave the three western rivers to Pakistan, with India allowed limited uses such as run…
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