States PCS: West Bengal GK Questions for WBPSC Examinations

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Please pay attention to statement 2. Although Chaitanya himself did not write any works on theology or religious practices, his selection of and charges to core disciples gave birth to a major Vaishnava sect, called the Chaitanya Sampradaya or Gaudiya Sampradaya. The Gaudiya Sampradaya is an intensely emotional form of Hinduism that flourished mainly in Bengal and eastern Odisha. It started in Nabadwip and spread, with a theology being developed by Chaitanya’s disciples known as the six gosvamins.

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Gujarat accounts for almost 75 percent of salt production in the country and is the largest salt producing state in the country. Maharashtra, West Bengal, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh are also involved in salt production. Thoothukudi is the major salt producer in Tamil Nadu. Mandi in Himachal Pradesh is the only source of rock salt in India.

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The West Bengal Assembly has recently passed the West Bengal Green University (Amendment) Bill 2018 to rename the West Bengal Green University as Rani Rashmoni Green University. The decision to rename the university was taken to commemorate the 225th birth anniversary of Lokmata Rani Rashmoni. Rani Rashmoni had played an important role in the spread of education in the state. She was the founder of the Dakshineswar Kali Temple, Kolkata. Her other construction works include the construction of a road from Subarnarekha River to Puri for the pilgrims, Babughat (also known as Babu Rajchandra Das Ghat), Ahiritola Ghat and Nimtola Ghat for the everyday bathers at the Ganges. She also offered considerable charity to the Imperial Library (now the National Library of India), the Hindu College (now Presidency University).

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The first metal to be used at the end of the Neolithic period was copper which was used in addition to stone by several cultures. The cultures to use stone and copper implements were known as Chalcolithic which means stone-copper phase.

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At the time of Hwen Tshang’s visit, Kanoj was the capital of Raja Harshvardhan, the most powerful sovereign in Northern India. According to him, Emperor Harsha was of the Vaishya caste

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K?lid?sa’s Meghad?ta was one of the most unique Sanskrit poetries, in which the poet tries to go beyond the strophic unity of the short lyric, which normally characterizes love poems, by stringing the stanzas into a narrative.

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A bitter line in the Puranas laments that Magadhan emperor Mahapadma Nanda exterminated all Kshatriyas, none worthy of the name Kshatriya being left thereafter.

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Chandra Dynasty ruled in south-eastern Bengal (vanga and samatata) for about a century and a half from the beginning of the 10th century AD. Discovery of quite a few copperplates of the rulers of this dynasty now affords the reconstruction of a connected history of this dynasty and the history of the south-eastern part of Bengal is now much more clear than about 50/60 years ago.

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One of the verses of Ladahachandra’;s Mainamati plate records that under Trailokyachandra Vanga was rising in prosperity. The ascendancy of Trailokyachandra in Samatata was in all probability contemporaneous with the rise of the Kambojas in western and northern Bengal within the Pala empire.

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Chandradeva, the first monarch of Gahadavala dynasty, established a sovereign kingdom sometime before 1090 CE, after the decline of the Kalachuri power. The kingdom reached its zenith under his grandson Govindachandra who annexed some of the Kalachuri territories, warded off Ghaznavid raids, and also fought the Palas.