States PCS: West Bengal GK Questions for WBPSC Examinations

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Fort William College was an academy of oriental studies and a centre of learning, founded on 10 July 1800 by Lord Wellesley, then Governor-General of British India, located within the Fort William complex in Calcutta.

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The first novel to be serialized in Bangadarshan was the stunning Vishabriksha (“poison tree”) on 1873. It was followed by Indira in the same year and Yugalanguriya in 1874. Indeed, nearly all of Bankim’s subsequent novels were published in this magazine.

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Dhumketu was a bi-weekly magazine edited by Kazi Nazrul Islam which was first published on 11 August 1922. The last issue of the magazine was published in March 1923.

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Dwarkanath Ganguly wrote a historical drama “Birnari” in 1875. His other novel was “Suruchir Kutir”. He had also started a treatise “NoboBarshiki” that contained information about the who’s who of then Bengal.

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Kalikata was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Kolkata (formerly, Calcutta) in India. The other two villages were Gobindapur and Sutanuti. Job Charnock, an administrator with the British East India Company is traditionally credited with the honour of founding the city. He settled in the village of Sutanuti.

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Vidyasagar Setu, also known as the Second Hooghly Bridge, is a toll bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India, linking the cities of Kolkata (previously known as Calcutta) and Howrah.

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There are a number of industrial complexes situated in Hooghly including one of the largest car manufacturing plants in India, the Hindustan Motors plant in Uttarpara. Bandel Thermal power plant and Tribeni tissue plant (ITC), two most important plantation in Bengal’s economy, also are in Hooghly.

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According to E.C.L. Burdwan, there is at present 107 operating mines out of which 89 are underground mines and remaining 18 are opencast mines. Total Coal Reserve upto 600 m depth is 23 billion tonnes in West Bengal.

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Dalkhola is an important center for commodities like jute, corn and oil trade in Uttar Dinajpur. It is also an important center for the trade of maize, which is produced in the neighboring state of Bihar.

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Santipur, Fulia in Nadia district; Dhaniakhali and Begampur in Hooghly;
Sanudragarh, Dhatrigam and Ketugram in Bardhaman and Bishnupur in Bankura
are major silk producing centres of West Bengal. Centre for breeding of silk worms
is in Malda, Darjeeling, Murshidabad and Bardhaman.