States PCS: West Bengal GK Questions for WBPSC Examinations

Notes:
Dinabandhu Mitra wrote
‘Neel Darpan’ against the exploitation of farmers in Indigo revolution,
which was later translated by Michael
Madhusudan Dutta.

Notes:
The Chuar rebels attacked the headquarters of the British
East India Company in around 1798-99, though after a fierce battle with the armies of British East India Company, they were defeated.
However, in Shalbani, the rebels were
victorious and destroyed the army barracks of British East India Company.

Notes:
To check the
activities of the rebels of Fakir-Sanyassi Resistance Movement in North Bengal an
English army was sent to Rangpur in
1767 under Captain De Mackenzee.

Notes:
One of the earliest social movements
that emerged during 17th century was the
Young Bengal Movement introduced
by an Anglo-Indian Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.

Notes:
The government’s decision to partition Bengal was made in December 1903. The official reason was that Bengal, with a population of 78 million, was too large to be administered; the real reason, however, was that it was the center of the revolt and company officials could not control the protests which they thought would spread throughout India.

Notes:
Jana Gana Mana was first publicly sung/recited on 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta (now Kolkata) Session of the Indian National Congress.

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From an early age, Madhusudan Dutt wanted to be an Englishman in form and manner. Dutt is widely said to be one of the greatest poets in Bengali literature. He is the father of the Bengali sonnet. He was the first to make what came to be called amitrakshar chhanda (blank verse). Dutt died in Kolkata, India on 29 June 1873.

Notes:
on 15 May 1878 Anandamoha Bose, along with Shibnath Shastri, Sib Chandra Deb, Umesh Chandra Dutta and others founded the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj . He was elected its first president.

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Spread roughly north–south along the east bank of the Hooghly River, Kolkata sits within the lower Ganges Delta of eastern India. Much of the city was originally a wetland that was reclaimed over the decades to accommodate a burgeoning population. The remaining undeveloped areas, known as the East Kolkata Wetlands, were designated a “wetland of international importance” by the Ramsar Convention (1975).

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The Ganges Delta empties into the Bay of Bengal with the combined waters of several river systems, mainly those of the Brahmaputra river and the Ganges river. It is also one of the most fertile regions in the world, thus earning the nickname the Green Delta. The delta stretches from the Hooghly River east as far as the Meghna River.