States PCS: West Bengal GK Questions for WBPSC Examinations

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Surya Sen was a school teacher by profession and was popularly known as Master Da. Sen was arrested on 16 February 1933, tried and was hanged on 12 January 1934. Many of his fellow revolutionaries were also caught and sentenced to long periods of imprisonment.

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Mamata Banerjee was the Minister of Coal, and Minister of
State for Human Resource
Development, Youth Affairs, Sports, Women and Child Development in the Cabinet of the Indian Government. She is often referred to as Didi.

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Jharkhandi Dialect is spoken in Westernmost districts like Burdwan,
Bankura, Midnapore and Purulia in West Bengal and it is the dialect of Bengali spoken in Santhal Pargana division and Kolhan division in Jharkhand and its nearby Bengali spoken regions.

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Hicky’s Bengal Gazette or Original Calcutta General Advertiser was an English-language newspaper published in Calcutta for two years that is 1780 and 1782. It was first newspaper published in Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Irishman James Augustus Hicky in 1779 and was discontinued when East India Company seized the newspaper’s types and printing press.

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The earliest music in Bengal was influenced by Sanskrit chants, and evolved under the influence of Vaishnav poetry such as the 13th-century Gitagovindam by Jayadeva, whose work continues to be sung in many eastern Hindu temples.

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The Bishnupur gharana follows the Dhrupad tradition of Hindustani music. In this style, the artist elaborates on the raga through the alap in a simple way.

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Khamak is a Bengali instrument that is similar to the Ektara (one-stringed instrument
attached to a drum) and is used alongside other traditional
instruments in creating folk music especially the baulgaan (songs sung by the bauls). This instrument is also played by
plucking the strings with one arm and adjusting the tension of the
strings with the other.

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The West Bengal Film Development Corporation is an organisation engaged in
screening of films as well as their distribution. The Colour Film Laboratory was
re-established in the year 1986 and was named as Rupayan. This was done by a
famous personality of film industry of Bengal, Satyajit Ray. In 1990, the Sound Recording Theatre was established.

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Satyajit Ray was born on 2nd May, 1921 in Kolkata. He is the most acknowledged
Indian name in international film and is one of the greatest film makers of all time. Most of his films were made in
Bengali.

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Ajoy Kar was a noted Bengali film director, who directed more than 25
films. His famous films are Shyamoli,
Haranosur, Saptapadi, Parineeta, Sat
Pake Badha, Datta, Khelaghar, etc. His film Sat Pake Badha is regarded as
one of the all-time great films of Bengali cinema and Suchitra Sen won the Best Actress Award for this film at the
prestigious Moscow Film Festival. More than 30 years, Kar worked as a film director in Bengal.