States PCS: West Bengal GK Questions for WBPSC Examinations

Notes:
A total of 84 Neolithic sites have been identified in West Bengal. They are the Himalayan foothills
comprising Kalimpong and adjacent Sikkim state and the plateau fringe area
comprising the districts of Midnapore, Bankura, Purulia, Burdwan and Birbhum.

Notes:
According to Kalhana’s Rajatarangini (c. 12th century CE), the Pancha Gauda group includes the following five Brahmin communities, which according to the text, reside to the north of the Vindhyas. These are Saraswat,
Kanyakubja,
Gauda,
Utkala, &
Mithila.

Notes:
Krishna Mishra Prabodha-chandrodaya during 11th or 12th century, where he mentioned that Gauda Rashtra includes Rarh (or Rarhpuri) and Bhurishreshthika, identified with Bhurshut, in Hooghly and Howrah districts.

Notes:
The writer of the R?macarita (“Deeds of R?ma”), in the 12th-century was poet Sandhy?k?ra. This mahakavya it celebrates simultaneously the hero-god R?ma and the poet’s own king, R?map?la of Bengal.

Notes:
Rajyashri was the sister of Harsha Vardhan (590–647) and was instrumental in getting her brother to convert to Buddhism. They were the children of Prabhakar Vardhan, a king of Sthanvisvara or modern Thanesar in Haryana. Prabhakar Vardhan was a follower of the sun cult.

Notes:
Trailokyachandra, who was the first independent ruler of his kingdom, established their sovereign rule in Samatata area with devaparvata as their centre of power and gradually spread it over chandradvipa and parts of Vanga, and assumed the title of Maharajadhiraja.

Notes:
Shunga rulers helped to establish the tradition of royal sponsorship of learning and art. Art, education, philosophy, and other forms of learning flowered during this period including small terracotta images, larger stone sculptures, and architectural monuments such as the stupa at Bharhut, and the renowned Great Stupa at Sanchi.

Notes:
The Baharistan-i-Ghaibi written by Mirza Nathan, is a 17th-century chronicle on the history of Bengal, Cooch Behar, Assam and Bihar under the reign of Mughal emperor Jahangir (1605-1627). Unlike other history books of the Mughal Empire, written by court historians by order of the emperor and covering the history of the whole empire, the Baharistan-i-Ghaibi deals only with the affairs of Bengal and the adjoining area.

Notes:
The great emperor Krishnadevaraya was himself a celebrated poet having composed Amuktamalyada. In his court, eight Telugu poets were regarded as the eight pillars of the literary assembly. In the olden days, it was believed that eight elephants were holding the earth in eight different directions.

Notes:
Nandi Thimmana (15th and 16th centuries CE) was a poet and one of the Astadiggajas in the court of the king Krishnadevaraya. He is often called Mukku Thimmana (Thimmana of the nose) after his celebrated poem on a woman’s nose. He wrote Parijathapaharanam.