States PCS: West Bengal GK Questions for WBPSC Examinations

Notes:
A number of poetic biographies on Chaitanya were composed—the earliest
being Murari Gupta’s Shri Krishna Charitamrita followed by Brindaban
Das’s biography of Chaitanya, which is the only biography that mentions
Chaitanya’s death and, last but the most important, Krishna Das Kaviraj’s
Chaitanya Charitamrita (sixteenth century AD), which was composed more
than half a century after the passing away of Chaitanya.

Notes:
Murshid Quli Khan had built the magnificent Katra Masjid. After his death in 1727 CE, he was buried under the
steps of Katra Masjid.

Notes:
The Company ordered the Nawab of Bengal, Mir Qasim to pay for war expenses and expenses to purchase the presidencies of Bombay and Madras. This angered Mir Qasim and he shifted his capital from Murshidabad to Munger.

Notes:
Initially the capital of the Subah was Tanda. On 9 November 1595, the foundations of a new capital were laid at Rajmahal by Man Singh I who renamed it Akbarnagar. In 1610 the capital was shifted from Rajmahal to Dhaka and it was renamed Jahangirnagar.

Notes:
With the Dual Administration system in Bengal, the Company got both Diwani Rights and Nizamat Rights over Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.

Notes:
The India Gazette was founded by Bernard Messink and Peter Reed, two East India Company employees, and the paper was a strong supporter of the administration of the Governor General Warren Hastings, also a rival to India’s first newspaper Hicky’s Bengal Gazette.

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Vidyasagar established Barisha High School in 1856 helped by Amulya Ambati the reformer.

Notes:
Bengali novels occupy a major part of Bengali literature. Though the first Bengali novel was Karuna O Phulmonir Bibaran (1852), the Bengali novel actually started its journey with Durgeshnandini written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1865.

Notes:
Bharati was a family magazine started by Jyotirindranath Tagore in 1877 and edited first by Dwijendranath Tagore. Dwijendranath edited the magazine for seven years. Thereafter for eleven years, Swarnakumari took charge as editor and worked hard to enhance the uniqueness of the journal.

Notes:
Bhadralok an elitist social class that emerged through the processes of social changes brought under the impact of British colonial rule. The term bhadralok began to be used later for the behaviorally refined people. It was first used by Bhabanicharan Bandyopadhayay (1787-1848) in his literary works.