Books to Kickstart Your Preparations

Here is the 3rd video of my Vlog on the books to kickstart your prep.
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ECONOMY TITBITS( INDIA YEAR BOOK INCLUDED)

• Gilt-edged market-Deals with govt and semi govt securities
• Working group on WPI led by Arjun Sengupta-proposed base year 2000-01
• Reflation-Price rise during the process of recovery
• Pound Sterling has the highest value in comparison to Indian Rupee
• IDA is the soft loan window of World Bank
• India's rank in FOREX reserve-5th
• National Housing Bank established in 1988 is a wholly owned subsidiary of RBI
• MID DAX-index of Frankfurt stock exchange
• SENSEX takes into account the weighted average of 30 shares and its base year is 1978-79
• India was one of the first in Asia to recognise the effectiveness of the Export Processing
  Zone (EPZ) model in promoting exports, with Asia’s first EPZ set up in Kandla in
  1965
• MMTC Limited is India’s largest trading company with an annual business turnover
  in the region of US $ 7 billion. It is the largest exporter of Minerals and Ores from
  India
• The Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) undertook a countrywide Economic
  Census, for the first time in 1977
• The Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) is the nodal department for procuring
  and coordinating external assistance from multilateral/ bilateral agencies.
• The first bank of limited liability managed by Indians was Oudh Commercial Bank
  founded in 1881
• India's current quota in the IMF is SDR (Special Drawing Rights) 4,158.20
  million in the total quota of SDR 213 billion, giving it a share holding of 1.95 per cent.
• India is a founder member of the International Monetary Fund. Finance
  Minister is the ex-officio Governor on the Board of Governors of the IMF and Governor,
  RBI is India's Alternate Governor. India is represented at the IMF by an Executive
  Director who also represents three other countries, viz. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and
  Bhutan.
• Electronics equipments including Software attracts highest FDI in India
• The three largest states constituting 54% of the corporate sector are Maharashtra,
  Delhi and West Bengal
• WINGS OF World Bank

IDA-Soft Loan
MIGA-Insurance
ICSID-Investment disputes
IFC-Lending to private sector

• Members of IMF can be the members of World Bank
• Omkar Goswami Committee-Industrial sickness
• M3 is known as Broad Money
• First National Human Development Report-2002
• The economy of India is the twelfth largest in the world by market exchange rates and the fourth largest in the world by GDP
• India currently accounts for 1.5% of World trade as of 2007 according to the WTO.
• India has the world's second largest road network.^[147] Container traffic is growing at 15% a year.^[148] Some 60% of India’s container traffic is handled by the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Mumbai
• Call Money Market deals with one day loan
• Dr VKRV Rao first calculated India's national income on a scientific basis in 1931-32
• First plan was based on Harold Domar Project
• Eradication of poverty was the main target of the 5th Plan
• India has the second largest share holding population after USA
• Bank of Baroda is the Indian bank with highest number of foreign branches
• First stock exchange in Bombay in 1875
• NK Singh committee-FDI
• Central Cooperative Bank operates in the district level
• PC Moholanobish was the chairman of the National Income Committee in 1949
• SIDBI is a wholly owned subsidiary of IDBI
• Directorate of Enforcement is responsible for FEMA
• NAFTA is the largest trading block in the world
• UTI II is NAV based and floated by LIC,BOB,SBI and PNB
• Treasury bills are sold through auction
• Devaluation is done on fixed exchange rates
• Crawling peg refers to the existence of both fixed and flexible rates.It is also known as Dirty Float or Managed Floating Exchange Rate
• Commercial banks are set up by the act of Parliament whereas cooperative banks by the act of state
• Regional rural banks were set up in 1975.First RRB in Maldah,West Bengal
• Bank of International Setlement- BIS( Basle,Switzerland)
• Bank rate, CRR and Open Market Operations are the quantitative measures
• RRB s are not present in Sikkim and Goa
• United Nations has maximum debt on USA
• OECD countries have highest trade with India
• Rangarajan Committe-BOP problems
  

GEOGRAPHY-GS-INDUSTRY

• Meerat Seth committee on handloom
• Tronica City( Ghaziabad)- Apparel park
• Coimbatore has the largest number of small scale textile mills and is known as Manchester of South India
• Subsidies on PDS kerosene and domestic LPG are borne by Consolidated Fund of India
• India's only mini refinery at Tatipaka,Andhra Pradesh
• India is the largest producer and consumer of sugar
• Indian Institute of Sugar Technology-Kanpur
• Newsprint mills-Nepanagar(MP),Shimoga(KNTK),Pugalore(TN)
• Abid Hussain committee-Small scale Industry
• Pearl fishing-Tuticorin
• Carpet-Mirzapur
• Peddapalli,satna,Dalmiapuram,Chennai, Porbandar and Katni-Cement
• Firozabad-glass
• Sindri-Fertilizer,cement
• Pimpri-Antibiotics
• BHEL Units- Bhopal,Tiruchirapalli,Haridwar,Hyderabad
• Hindustan Shipyard ,Vizag is the largest in India
• HMT Units are in Kamlesswary,Pinjore,Hyderabad,Ajmer,Srinagar
  

GEOGRAPHY-GS-MINERALS,ENERGY

• Power development in India commenced at the end of the 19th century with the
  commissioning of electricity supply in Darjeeling during 1897, followed by the
  commissioning of a hydropower station at Sivasamudram in Karnataka during 1902.
• The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), the first multipurpose river valley project
  of the Government was set up in July 1948 for the unified development of Damodar
  Valley region spread over the States of Jharkhand and West Bengal
• The Oil and Natural Gas Commission was established on 14 August 1956
• GAIL ( India) limited, a ‘Navratana’ enterprise was established in the year 1984
  and is India’s principal nature gas transmission and marketing company.GAIL has also been operating its state-of-art telecommunication network.-GAILS’s telecom business unit- ‘GAILTEL’
• At present, there are 18 refineries operating in the country (17 in the Public Sector and one in the Private Sector).
• Anthracite coal found in Kalakot mine in J&K
• Koteswar is a sub project of the Tehri dam project
• NTPC established in 1975 and a Navratna company
• Imp coal mines

Namchik Namphuk-Arunachal Pradesh
Langrin and Maolong-Meghalaya
Neyveli and Jayamkondacholapuram-TN
Baruch and Umarsar-Gujarat
Parabhur-Kerala
Palana- Rajasthan
Bokaro,Jharia,Giridh and Karanpura- Jharkhand
Rewa, Umaria, Korba,Satna,Pench,Tawa,Kana-MP
Kamptee-Maharashtra
Koteh-UP
Kodagundam,Ramagundam,Tandur-Andhra Pradesh
Talcher,Sambhalpur,Denkanal-Orissa

• A project for setting up of a
  3.75 MW capacity demonstration tidal power project at Durgaduani Creek in the
  Sundarbans area of West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency
  (WBREDA) in February, 2008
• India ranks 5th in the production of wind energy
• Foreign Investment Implementation Authority (FIIA) was established in the
  Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry
• Globally India is the second largest producer of silk and contriutes about 18% to the
  total world raw silk production. India has the unique distinction of being endowed
  with all the four varieties of silk, namely, Mulberry, Eri, Tasar, and Muga
• Globally, India is the largest producer and second largest exporter of jute goods
• Today, India is the fifth largest Crude steel producing country in the world
• India today is the third largest producer of nitrogenous fertilizers in the world
  only behind China & USA
• Coal is the main source of energy in the country and accounts for about 67 per cent of
  the country's commercial requirement
• National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), largest integrated Alumina-
  Aluminium Plant Complex in India, was incorporated on 7th January, 1981 with its
  registered office at Bhubaneswar
• Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO) was incorporated on 27th November,
  1965 as a Central Public Sector Undertaking with an integrated Alumina/Aluminium
  Complex and a 270 MW Captive Power Plant at Korba presently in Chhattisgarh.
• As a result of the efforts of the Government in promoting the coir industry, India
  has retained its position as the largest producer and supplier of coir and coir products
  in the world market.
• Champion Reef in Karnataka is the deepest mine in the world.It is famous for gold mining
• Sagar Samriddhi is the Project by ONGC to drill oil in deep sea.Belford Dolphin is its drilling machine
• Administered Price Mechanism on petroleum was dismantled in 2002

Oil Production Zones

Assam-Digboy, Nahar Katiya,Galki,Sibsagar,Moran Higrijan,Rudrasagar
Gujarat-Ankleswar,Khambat,Aliabet,Lunej,Kalol
Mumbai-Bassein
HP-Dharmsala and Bilaspur

Main Copper belts
Madhya Pradesh-Balaghat( Malanjkhad,Teregaon)
Rajasthan-Khetri, Singhana
Jharkhand-Raka,Dhobani,Mosaboni
Sikkim-Rangpo
Maharastra-Tajola

Lead- TN, AP(Agnigundala,Khammam,Nalgonda)
Silver-Tundoo(JRK),Zarwar

Bauxite
KBK District(Orissa),Amarkantak(MP),Shevroy hills(TN)

• India produces 60% of world's mica.Main areas are Gaya,Bhagalpur,Giridh,Monghyr(Bihar) and Hazaribagh(JRK)
• Monazite, the ore of Thorium found in Kerala
• Jaduguda in Singhbhum, JRK, is famous for Uranium
• India has the largest reserve of Kyanite
• TN is the highest producer of Sulphur
• Granite is known as Black Lead

GK & CA-SELECTED QUESTIONS -PART II

• Teem Berners Lee invented WWW
• Paul Allens is the co founder of Microsoft
• The first Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs conference was held in July 1957 in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, hence the organization's name. It was organized by Joseph Rotblat.
• In Chennai India's Global Automative Research Centre is being built
• Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park, Tamil Nadu is also known as Top Slip
• Raghu Rai is an eminent photo journalist
• 15th NAM Summit was held in Tehran
• Bangkok has hosted Asian Games maximum number of times
• Piers Sellers is an eminent space walker
• Foreign Intelligence Service is the Spy Agency of Russia, Ministry of State Security is of China and Secret Intelligence Service is of Britain
• Montenegro is the latest entrant to UN and Cape Verde is the latest entrant to WTO
• Shourya, a ballistic surface to surface missile, with 600 km range was launched from Balasore,Orissa
• Operation Seabird is new Indian naval base at Kharwar
• Kishan Chaupal is a Rural Development scheme in Haryana
• Cricket was a part of 1900 Olympics and UK won the gold by defeating France
• The Universal Product Code (UPC) is a barcode symbology (i.e., a specific type of barcode), that is widely used in the United States and Canada for tracking trade items in stores.
• The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to October 26, 1973 by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel. The Camp David Accords, which came soon after, led to normalized relations between Egypt and Israel—the first time any Arab country had recognized the Israeli state. Egypt, which had already been drifting away from the Soviet Union, then left the Soviet sphere of influence entirely.
• The Banana Wars were a series of occupations, police actions, and interventions involving the United States in Central America and the Caribbean. This period started with the Spanish-American War in 1898 and the subsequent Treaty of Paris, which gave the United States control of Cuba and Puerto Rico. It ended with the withdraw of troops from Haiti and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy in 1934.
• Himachal Pradesh became India's first carbon free state and it was also the first state to start a government e-gazette
• Jugnu India's first nano satellite developed by students of IIT Kanpur
• India's first nano lab in JNCASR,Bangalore
• Bisophenol A is used in packaging food materials
• Tauvex is Indo- Israel mission for UV Imaging satellite
• Global Economic Prospects and Investment Climate Index are developed by World Bank
• The only Cabinet meeting to be held outside Delhi-Sariska,1986
• Only Olympic event with age limit-Boxing
• Hashim Thaci is the Kosovo Prime Minister and Pristina is the capital
• Recently Caterpillar emergency was launched in Liberia
• Byalulu is a small village in Karnataka.From here the Chandryaan mission is being monitored
• Richar S Fuld is the CEO of Lehman Bros
• Goods and Services Tax to be implemented from 1st April, 2010
• Konkan 2008- Indo-UK joint naval exercise
• Vivek Kundra is the Chief Information Officer of the Obama Government
• Blue Card is the EU version of Us Green card to attract professionals
• 2009 G-8 Summit-Italy
• Future Gen Project- World's first coal fuelled zero emission project by USA.India has a stake in it
• 28TH GCC Summit-Doha,Qatar
• Mexico to host 2009 World Environment Day Celebrations
• First overseas Indian Tourism Office was launched in China
• Income ceiling for the creamy layer has been increased to 5.5 lakh per annum from 2.5 l per annum
• Recently Himachal Pradesh started Green Tax
• X RED FLAG-International Defence Exercise
• Algal Bloom was recently found in the Gulf of Mannar
• Habitat of the Olive Ridley turtles-Gahirmatha island,Orissa
• Shenzhou-VII -China's manned moon mission
• Recently Iceland suffered from national bankruptcy
• John Key is the new PM of New Zealand
  

HISTORY OPTIONAL-MODERN INDIA-INDEPENDENT KINGDOMS AND ANGLO WARS

• Sadat Khan's original name was Mir Md Amin and he got the title Burhaan Ul Mulk
• He was a Faujdar of Bayana
• The highest post under Safdarjung was held by a Hindu Nawab Rai
• Zeech Mohammed Shahi or the Movement of astronomical bodies was a famous astronomical table of Maharaja Swai Jai Singh of Jaipur.He founded Jaipur in 1728
• Mir Kasim gave the British Midnapore,Chittagong and Burdwan
  
• Mir Kasim transferred his capital to Monghyr in 1762
• Hector Munro led the British Army in the Battle of Buxar
• Surajmal was known as The Plato of Jat tribe
• Ghulam Hussein wrote Siyar ul Mukkharein
• Siraj renamed Calcutta as Alinagar
• In Feb 1757, Siraj Concluded the Treaty of Alinagar with the British
• By the Treaty of 1760 Mir Kashim promised to give the British a sum of 5 lakh rupees
• Shaukat Jung was defeated by Siraj in the Battle of Manihari
• Amin Chand threatened Clive to leak the conspiracy against Siraj and thus Clive forged a copy of agreement with Amin
• Ahmad Shah Abdali gave Badan Singh the title Mahendra
• Haider Ali set up an Arsenal in Dindigul
• In 1780 Hyder Ali captured Arcot
• Eyre Coote led English troops in the Battle of Porto Novo in 1780
• Tipu sanctioned grants for repairing the image of Godess Sarada of the Sringeri Temple
• Tipu assumed the title Padshah in 1787
• Battle of Saint Thome was an important event of the First Anglo Carnatic War.There the French troop was led by Capt Paradise whereas the troops of the nawab of Carnatic Anwar ud Din was led by Mahfooz Khan
• British troops tried to capture Pondicherry during the first Anglo Carnatic War under Rear Admiral Boscawen
• In 1754 Godeheu replaced Dupleix as the Governor General of all French possessions in India
• The trio Chanda Sahib,Muzaffar Jung and Dupleix killed Anwar ud Din at the battle of Ambar
• Eyre Coot led the British troops in the third Anglo Carnatic War whereas Cont de Lally led the French troops.British navy was led by Pocock and French navy by D'Ache
• One notable military advance championed by Tipu Sultan was the use of mass attacks with rocket brigades, called kushoons, in the army
• During his rule, Tippu Sultan laid the foundation for a dam where the famous Krishna Raja Sagara Dam across the river Cauvery was later built.
• During the first Anglo Mysore war the British troops were led by Colonel Smith and during the second war they were led by Eyre Coote whereas Lord Cornwallis led in the third battle
• Tipu was well versed in Arabic,Urdu,Persian and Kannada
• The Battle of Bedara (25 November 1759) was fought between the British & Mir Jafar along with the help of Dutch (for financial obligations to East India Company). In this battle, latter was completely & decisively defeated by the British

HISTORY-ROAD TO A RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT

Provisions of 1773 Act

• Court of Directors hitherto elected every year would be elected for 4 years
  
• Total number of Directors 24,one fourth retiring every year
• A Governor General in Bengal with four members to assist him and the quorum was 3
• The member of Governor Generals EC to hold office for 5 years
• The Governor General will have authority over Madras and Bombay
• Supreme court was created
• The court was given both original and appellate jurisdiction

Provisions of 1784 Act

• A Board of Control with 6 members
• Court of Directors retained real executive power and patronage and Board of control no power of patronage
• The members of Governor Generals EC was reduced to 3
• Only Covenanted servants will be appointed as members of the Council of Governor General
• The Presidencies of Bombay and Madras were subordinated to the Governor General
• Prohibition of aggressive wars and treaties with Indian princes

Provisions of 1813 Act

• Company was deprived of monopoly of trade except trade with China and trade in tea
• Rs 1 lakh for education in India

Provisions of 1833 Act

• Centralized government in India and the Governor General of Bengal was made the Governor General of India
• Bombay and Madras completely subordinated to the Governor General
• A new member, a Law member in the Governor General's EC
• Company lost its monopoly of tea trade and trade with China
• "No Indian or natural born subject of the Crown resident in India by reason of birth,colour,descent, be disqualified for any employment under the company
• Government of India to take serious measures to ameliorate the condition of slaves
  

Provisions of 1853 Act

• The law member was made a full member
• The number of Court of Directors reduced to 18, 6 nominated by the Crown and the quorum was fixed at 10
• The power of patronage of the Directors was curbed
• Services thrown to open competition

Provisions of 1858 Act

• A Secretary of State for India and he will be assisted by 15 members of which 8 to be nominated by the Crown whereas 7 to be nominated by the Court of Directors
• Half of the members must have worked in India for at least 10 years
• Governor General was made Viceroy
• Appointment to the Covenanted servants to be made by open competitive examination

Provisions of 1861 Act

• Introduction of Portfolio system
• A fifth member added to Viceroy's EC and he has to be a gentleman of legal profession
• For legislative purpose Viceroy's EC was expanded by the addition of not less than 6 and not more than 12 members half of which must be non officials
• Their tenure for 6 months
• Power of Bombay and Madras Presidencies restored

Provisions of 1892 Act

• Two fifth of the members of the council to be non officials
• Principle of election introduced
• Members could ask questions and general discussion on budget was allowed

Some points to remember

• PSC introduced by the act of 1919
• The preamble of the Act of 1919 was based on the August declaration of 1917
• The income qualification of Hindu candidates was much more than that of Muslim candidates by the Act of 1909
• Introduction of election by the Act of 1909
• The details of electoral qualification and seat allocation was left to local authorities by the act of 1909
• The Act of 1919 was the most short lived act
• An Indian was appointed to the Viceroy's EC for the first time by the Act of 1909
• By the Act of 1909 Executive Councils were created for Bengal,Bihar,Orissa and UP
• By the Act of 1935, Council of States to have 250 members and Federal Assembly 375 members wherein Princely states to send 104 and 125 nominated candidates respectively
• Provincial autonomy was granted by the Act of 1935.
• A Federation by the Act of 1935 could not be formed unless states sent not less than 104 members to the Council of the States
  

Population Geography and Transport

• Khasa, Tharu and Bhotia tribes in UP
• Highest % of SC in Punjab and highest % of ST in Mizoram whereas highest SC in absolute numbers is in UP and in absolute number highest ST population in MP
• Dangs tribe in Gujarat
• Major tribes in India- Gond-Bhil-Santhal-Meena
• European+Indian= Mestizo
• Sex ratio among UTs highest in Pondicherry and lowest in Daman & Diu
• Child sex ratio among UTs highest in Dadra& Nagar Haveli and lowest in Chandigarh
• Highest decadal growth rate of population in Nagaland, then Sikkim
• Lowest decadal growth rate of population in Kerala and then Tamil Nadu
• Highest literacy rate among UTs in Lakshadweep and lowest in D &NH
• Highest IMR in India in OrissaKanis and Uralis tribes in Kerala
• Sahariya and Koli tribes in Rajasthan
• Buksa tribe can be found in UP and Warli tribe in Mahrashtra.Warlis can be found in Gujarat as well
  
• Most populous cities of India Mumbai-Delhi-Bangalore-Kolkata
  
• Denotified tribes are those which were earlier criminal
• Literacy rate wise Jains-Christians-Buddhists-Sikhs-Hindus-Muslims
• Valmiki, Nayak,Lambada tribes in Andhra Pradesh
• Munda-Koli languages belong to Austro-Asiatic type
• Toda,Irula,Badaga,Paliyan and kadar tribes in Tamil Nadu
• Birhol tribe in Jharkhand
• Konyak tribe in Nagaland
• Between 15 degree North to 45 deg North 45 % of the world population lives
• NH 17 runs entirely through desert(Pathankot to Shamiakhiali)
• Ennore in Tamil Nadu is the first corporate port in India
• Chennai port is an artificial port and it is the oldest port in India
• Maharashtra has highest number of ports in India
• Indian Railways is now reorganized into 16 Zones
• The Research, Design and Standards Organization (RDSO) at Lucknow is the R&D
  wing of Indian Railways. It functions as a consultant to the Indian Railways in
  technical matters
• Since 1924-25, railway finances remain separated from general revenues
• Though
  the National Highways, which is the responsibility of the Central Government, has
  about 66,590 km (Annexure-I) length and comprises only 2 per cent of the total
  length of roads, carries over 40 per cent of the total traffic
• The NHDP is the largest highway project ever undertaken
  in the country. The NHDP is being implemented by National Highways Authority of India
• Approximately, 90 per cent of the country’s trade by volume (70 per cent in terms of
  value) is moved by sea. India has the largest merchant shipping fleet among the
  developing countries and ranks 20th amongst the countries
• Presently 13 major ports and 200 other ports in India
• Cochin Shipyard is the largest shipyard in the country
• First private airport in Cochi
• Kandala is a tidal port.So is Kolkata
• Vizag port is the deepest port in India
• Highest % of National Highways in UP and the MP
• Rural and other roads constitute the highest % of roads in India
• India has bilateral Air Services Agreements with 103 countries
• India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) came into existence in October 1966
• The Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM) located in Gwalior
• Gujarat has highest number of ports
• Dufferin, Indias first training ship.Chanakya-India's present training ship
• Length of road highest in Maharashtra
• Mundra Port, a newly developed minor port in the state of Gujarat registered a cargo traffic of around 28.8 million tonnes per annum during the financial year of 2008, which is higher than that of many major ports
• Bhopal Shatabdi is the train in India with highest speed
• Maximum airports in Gukarat
• Maximum major ports in Tamil Nadu
• 23% of the total railway route electrified
• Konkan railway passes through Maharshtra, Goa and Karnataka

Courtesy:India Year Book 2009,Wikipedia

HISTORY-GOVERNOR GENERALS

• Collectors were appointed during Warren Hastings
• When Hastings resigned Clavering was to become his successor.He even took oath.
  
• Cole brook and William Jones codified the Hindu Law
• With the help of Colonel Sleeman Bentinck suppressed the Thuggis
• In 1850 Sikkim was annexed by Dalhousie
• Annexation of Lower Burma or Pegu in 1852
• Lord Amherst captured Bharatpur in 1826
• Wasil, Chitu and Karim Khan led the Pindaris.They were suppressed by Hastings
• Dalhousie concluded a treaty with the Nizam in 1853 by which Berar was ceded to the company
• Anglo Bhutanese war during Lord Lawrence
• State Railways were started during Lord Mayo
• Dept of Agriculture and Commerce was started during Mayo
• Initially railway was started by private parties
• Lytton started Statutory Civil Service
• In 1886 during the tenure of Lord Duffin,Aichinson Commission was appointed on Civil Services
• Rendition of Mysore by Ripon
• Bentinck created the post of Commissioners
• Indian Post and Telegraph Act-1854
• Abolition of Slavery by Ellenbrough
• Lord Hardinge-ban on female infanticide and human sacrifice,First Anglo sikh war
• First Anglo Afghan War- During Lord Auckland and Second during Lord Lytton
• PWD was formed during Dalhousie
• Cornwalis separated Revenue from administration and abolished the judicial power of the collectors
• During Warren Hastings treasury was transferred to Calcutta from Murshidabad
• Rohilla war in 1774.Their leader Hafiz Rehmat KhanThe decisive battle was fought in Miranpur
• Warren Hastings was expert in Arabic,Persian and could speak in Bengali.He patronised oriental Learning
• During Cornwalis provincial courts were established in Valcutta,Dacca,Murshidabad and Patna.In certain cases such courts even had original jurisdiction
• John Shore and James Grant helped Cornwallis in evolving the Permanent Settlement
• Wellesley called himself Bengal tiger
• Wellesley sent Mehdi Ali Khan as envoy to Persia
• Bentinck regularised and licensed opium trade and export
• Bentick signed a treaty of perpetual friendship with Ranjit Singh
• Lytton patronised free trade and abolished duties on many products like sugar,clothings,drills etc.
  

INDIAN GEOGRAPHY PART I RIVER SYSTEM

Ganga

Left Bank Tributaries-Chambal, Sind,Betwa,Ken,Son
Right Bank Tributaries- Gomti,Sarda,Ghaghra, Gandak, Koshi

Projects:
Chambal- Rana Pratap Sagar, Jawahar Sagar,Gandhi Sagar
Betwa-Matatila
Son-Rihand Valley, Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar(India's largest man made dam),Banasagar
Bhagirathii-Bhilangana- Tehri
Ghaghra- Chibro , Sardar Sahayak

Mahanadi

Left Bank Tributaries-Tel
Right Bank Tributaries-Seonath, Brahmanai,Suvarnrekha, Vaitarani

Dams: Hirakud( Largest mainstream dam in the world), Tikapara, Naraj

Godavari

Origin:Trambak plateu near Nasik

Left Bank- Penganga,Wardha,Wainganga, Indravati,Savari
Right bank-Manjira

Projects:
Pochampad, Nizam Sagar,Dhawaleswaram

Krishna

Origin:Mahabaleswar near Pune

Left Bank- Bhima, Sina
Right Bank-Ghatprabha, Malprabha, Tungabhadra, Hagari

Projects:
Tungabhadra,Srisaila,Nagarjuna Sagar,Koyna, Alamati

Kaveri
Origin:Talakauveri, Brahmagiri hills

Projects and dams: Krishnaraja sagar, Mettur( Stanley reservoir is on this),Grand Anikut canal(India's oldest canal),Sharavati,Shivsamudram,Mahatma Gandhi Project

West Flowing Rivers

Luni

Origin: Amansagar

Sabarmati:

Origin: Mewar Hills. Dharoi project is on this river

Narmada:

Origin: Amarkantak Plateau

• Largest west flowing river
• Dhuadhar falls on this river
• Forms estuary
• Flows through rift valley
• Tawa,penk,Barmer,Hiran are tributaries
  

Projects:Sardar Sarovar,Omkareswar

Mahi: Originates in Vindhya range

Tapi: Multai Satpura range is the place of origin.Forms estuary
Projects:Ukai, Kakrapara

Brahmaputra:
Originates as Chema Young Dum.Mariam La separates it from Manas sarovar.Flows as Tsangpo in Tibet,Jiangin in China and Dihang in India
Right bank- Tista,Manas,Suvarnsiri
Left bank-Dibang,Barak,Lohit
Sarda Dhubri waterway is on it

Indus:
From Nort to south its tributaries are Jhelum(From Bheri nag),Chenab(Bara lacha la),Ravi,Beas,Sutllej
Beas is entirely on India

Projects

Jhelum-Tulbul
Chenab-Dulhasti,Salal
Ravi-Thain
Beas-Pong
Sutlej-Indira Gandhi canal project( sutlej and beas confluence.Largest canal in India),Naptha Jhakri,Bhankra Nangal(largest multipurpose project in India)

Rivers in descending order
Ganga, Godavari,Krishna,Yamuna, Narmada,Ghagghar,Sutlej,Mahanadi,Kaveri,Son,Kosi,Brahmaputra,Ravi,Tapi


Lagoons-Ashtamudi,Chilka,Vembanad

• Loktak in Manipur is the largest fresh water lake in India
• Lonar in Maharashtra is a crater lake
• Wullar in J&K is an Ox Bow lake and its the largest lake in the state
  
• Nakki lake is in Mt Abu
• Lake pichola in Udaipur
• Jaisamand is the largest freshwater lake in Rajasthan
• Sukhna in Chandigarh is an artificial lake
• Highest area underirrigation-Rice,wheat,Oilseeds
• A Treaty on Integrated Development of Mahakali River had been signed
  between the Government of India and Government of Nepal in February 1996; which
  came into force in June 1997 (Mahakali Treaty). Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project
  on river Mahakali (known as river Sarda in India), is the centerpiece of Mahakali
  Treaty.

AGRICULTURE:

• India is the largest producer in the world of milk, cashew nuts, coconuts, tea, ginger, turmeric and black pepper.^[2] It also has the world's largest cattle population (193 million).
• India has a large range of varieties of fruit in its basket and accounts for 10 per
  cent of world’s total fruit production.India is the largest producer of mango, banana.
• India is next only to China in area and production of vegetables and occupies
  prime position in the production of cauliflower, second in onion and third in cabbage
  in the world
• India is the largest producer, consumer and exporter of spices and spice products
• The major
  plantation crops include coconut, arecanut, oil palm, cashew, tea, coffee and rubber,
  the minor plantation crops include cocoa
• India is also the largest producer and consumer of cashew nuts
• India is the third largest producer and consumer of fertilisers in the world after
  China and the USA
• Kisan Call Centres have been functioning since 21st January, 2004 and working in 14
  different locations covering almost all the States of the country
• India is endowed with the largest livestock population in the world. It accounts
  for 57 per cent of the world’s buffalo population and 14 per cent of the cattle population
• The present availability of human protein in an Indian diet is
  10gm per person per day, as against a world average of 25gm
• India continues to be the largest producer of milk in the world.
• India possesses 27 acknowledged indigenous breeds of cattle and seven breeds of
  buffaloes.
• India, with poultry population of 489 million and estimated more than 47 billion
  eggs production per year, ranks among the top three countries in egg production in
  the world
• six major fishing harbors viz., Cochin, Chennai,
  Visakhapatnam, Roychowk, Paradip and Season dock (Mumbai ) in India
• Agriculture and allied sectors
  contribute nearly 22 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP of India), while about
  65-70 per cent of the population is dependent on agriculture for their livelihood
• Chilly is the highest grown spice in India
  

Person and their field of work

• Aparajita Dutta- Botany
• Usha Chammar- Sanitation and Hygiene
  
• Craig ventor -Human Genome Project
• Darshan -Majhi Mountaineering
• Martha Nassabaum- HDI
• Raman Ray -Outsourcing
• Samuel Wood- Human Cloning
• Pramod Karan- Artificial Limb
• Richuard Stallman- Freeware
• Yuki Bhambri -Tennis
• Rakesh Khurana- Management
• Kishor Biyani -Retail
• Bernerd Feliden- Conservation of Buildings
• V Prabhakar -Photography/Journalism
• Albert Howard- Organic farming
• Indra Sinha -Novelst
• Ajit Bhattacharya- Author
• Wegener -Continental Drift Theory
• Edwin Hubble- Big Bang theory
• Manjit Bawa -Artist
• Arthur C Clarke- Science Fiction
• Vinod Mehta- Journalism
• Amy Winehouse- Singer
• O Sullivan-Snooker
• Martin Cooper-Mobile phone invention
• Chery Bart and Nikki Bart-Mountaineering
• Saurav Ghoshal-Squash
• Dola Banerjee-Archery
• Mark Zukerberg-Social Networking
• Charles Simoyi-Space Traveller
• Chandra Shekhar Ghosh-Micro credit

Daily Dose

• Largest IT hub in the world -Dalian in China
• India will establish a military base in Mongolia
• Manikanchan in West Bengal is the first sector specific SEZ in India
• Thailand is the only South East Asian nation never to be colonized
• British Petroleum is the largest oil firm in the world
• John Bolton is the US Ambassador to UN
• STEREO-NASA's mission to Sun
• Croatia and Albania recently joined NATO
  
• NASDAQ- World's first electronic stock market
• World's first officially atheist nation- Albenia
• TATA bought British brands Jaguar and Land Rover
• Bhimsen Joshi belongs to Khirana gharana
• Jason II is the US-French satellite monitoring sea level
• Australia recently issued licence for cloned human embryos
• Georgia recently came out of CIS
• Cuba recently started land reforms
  
• NASA' Kepler mission-from Cape Canaveral,Florida-To find out extra solar planets in Galaxy
• Most spoken languages Mandarin-Hindi-English-Spanish-Bengali-Arabic
• BRIC Summit 2008-Yekaterinburg,Russia
• INS Talwar-Developed by Russia
• President's rule was first imposed in Kerala
• Khmer Rouge is the guerilla organisation in Cambodia
• New Amsterdam was the old name of New York
• Dulles Int Airport is the name of Washington airport
• Strahov in Czech Republic is the largest stadium on earth

World Geography PART IV (CONCLUDING PART)-ASIA & Others

• In Borobudur(Java) worlds largest Buddhist monastry
• Parliament of Japan- Diet and of Israel-Knesset
• Igorot is a tribe in Philippines
  
• Honshu is the largest Japanese Island
• La Perouse strait between Hokkaido island and Sakhalin
• Caspian sea is bordered by Iran,Kazakhstan,Russia,Turkmenistan,Azerbaijan
• Jordan is the only land locked west Asian nation
• Mt Mayon is an active Volcano in Luzon,Philippines
• Tatar strait separates Russia and Sakhalin
• Sunda strait separates Java and Sumatra
• Malacca strait separates Sumatra and Malaysia
  
• Dasht e Kavir-Largest salt desert in the world(Iran)
• South China Sea is the largest sea in the world and the largest water body after 5 oceans
• Hwang Ho is also known as Yellow river
• Pynmana is the new capital of Myanmar
• Bangkok is on Chao Phraya river
• Laos is the only landlocked nation of West Asia
• Baghdad is on the bank of Tigris river
• Kirkuk in Iraq is the largest oil field in the world
• Majlis is the parliament of both Maldives and Iran
• Tatar is the narrowest strait
• Malaysia is the largest producer of palm oil
• Nigeria largest producer of Ground nut oil
• Veddas is a tribe in Sri Lanka
• Ainu is a tribe in Japan
• Maginot line separates Germany and France
• Rub Ul Khail is the largest continuous stretch of desert in Saudi Arabia
• Famous Karaganda coal mine is in Kazakhstan
• Negev desert in Israel
• Upper Volta is the earlier name of Burkino Fuso
• 38 parallel separates North and South Korea
• Yawata is the largest iron & steel plant in Japan
• Andorra has the highest life expectancy in the world, 85 years
• Area wise continents Asia-Africa,N America,S America,Europe,Australia
• Big Inch Pipeline bet'n Gulf of Mexico and NE Part of America
• Trans Arabian Pipeline-Ras Tanura to Sidon
• Torres strait separates Australia and New Guinea
• Downs-Temperate grassland in AustraliaFoveux starit separates Southern NewZealand and Steward Island
• COMECON pipeline-Volga basin to East European countries
  
• Mexico is the highest producer of Sulphur
• Ashanti is a tribe in Ghana
  
• Canary Islands belong to Spain
• Tamanithi HEP bet'n India and Myanmar, on Chindwin river
  
• El Al is the airlines of Israel
• Cathay Pacific-Airlines of HongKong
• Macao is governed by China.Earlier it was governed by Portugal

Freedom Struggle-PART III-Concluding Part

• Chudringer was the Commerce minister in the interim govt whereas Abdul Rav Nistar was Communication minister
• Mountbatten Plan was also known as Balkan Plan
• Kashmir's premier during independence was Kak
• VP Menon moved the resolution for independence of India
• Ramakrishna Aiyer led the Punnapar Vayalar movement in Travancore
• Congress delegates in the Simla Conference was led by MAKA
• Ad miral Godfrey was given the charge to suppress RIN Mutiny
• Bakhast Peasant Rebellion was in Bihar in 1946-47
• KB Hedgewar founded RSS in 1925
• Subramania Iyer was the first Indian to be appointed the Vice Chancellor of Madras University
• Nabagopal Mitra started Hindu Mela and popularised the term "National"
• MN Roy founded Radical Democtatic Party in 1940 and also International Humanists
• C Rajagopalachari founded Swatantra Party
• From 1916 to 1921 Fazlul Haq was the President of Muslim League
• Bulabhai Deasai,KN Katju,TB Sapru,Asaf Ali and Nehru were in the team to provide legal aid to INA convicts
• Nankhana tragedy took place in February 1921
• Shiromani Gurdwara Prabondhak Committee founded in 1920
• Guru ka Bagh Styagraha-October 1922
• Nabha Agitation over the removal of Ripudaman Singh in 1923.Congress sent Nehru,Gidwani and Sathanam to enquire
• MN Srinivasan used the term Sanskritization
• Subramaniyam Tiramambu was known as Singing Sword of Kerala
• Ramkrishna Pillai wrote Swadeshabhimani and also wrote the first biography of Karl Marx in Tamil Nadu
• BR Ambedkar founded Bahishkrit Hitakarni Sabha in 1924
• Jyotiba Phule founded Satyashodhak Samaj in 1873
• Nadar Mahajan Sangam-1910
• CV Raman Pillai wrote Martanda Varna
• Periyar started Self Respect Movement
• Periyar joined the Congress in 1919, but resigned in 1925 when he felt that the party was only serving the interests of the Brahmins
• In 1939, Periyar became the head of the Justice Party
• In 1938 session of Hindu Mahasabha Savarkar declared "We Hindus are a nation by ourselves"
• Mohd Shafi Section of the Muslim League supported Simon Commission
• Subramaniyam Aiyer published Hindu
• Indigo rebellion was cooperative,disciplined and organised
• Aswini Kr Dutta called the Amravati session of 1897 a Three Day Tamasha
• Muthuswami Iyer was appointed a High Court Judge in Madras in 1978
• Tilak started a train called Congress Special
• KN Natarajan started "Indian Social Reformer"
• Rajendra Prasad moved the resolution for office acceptance
• All India Kisan Day 1st September 1936
• Hindu Mahsabha was founded in Haridwar
• After the Kohat riot Gandhiji went for a 21 day strike in 1924
• Ganhiji did not attain 1927 Madras session of Congress
• Vandemataram was the slogan for the Ghadarites and Sat sri Akal was avoided
• Krishna Rao,T Prakashan and C Pillai were together known as Egmore
• Punjab Land Alienation Act-1901
• Bengal Tenancy Act-1885
• Malabar Tenancy Act-1929
• Fazl Hussain started Unionist Party
• Agarkar edited Sudhakar
• Deccan Agriculturist Relief Act-1879
• 
  

Weekend Dose-Current Affairs and GK

• Ram Mynampati is the new CEO of Satyam
• Richard Holbrook is the US Adviser on Pakistan and Afghanistan
• Himachal Pradesh became India's first carbon free state
• India's first baby from frozen egg born in Chennai
  
• Chandrayaan 2 will be a joint project of India and Russia
• Shipping Corporation of India Ltd is the 17th Navratna company
• Aurora borealis occurs in Ionosphere
• New 4 tiger reserves in the country are in Pilbhit(UP),Sunabeda(Orissa),Sahyadri(Maharashtra) and Ratapani(MP)
• Navanetham Pillai is UN's Human Rights Commissioner
• SB Mathur is new LIC Chairman
• Internet Governance Forum took place in Hyderabad
  
• dVirendra Pralbhakar is an eminentr photographer joournalist
• Recently World Bank developed Investment Climate Index
• Rod Laver was popular by the nickname Rocket.He is from Australia
• Chakib Khelil is OPEC President
• 1 barrel equals to 158 ltr (approx)
• Recently Claudia Castillo of Spain came in news because of the first tracheal transplant
  in the world
• Jmnagar , world's biggest greenfield refineary,cowned by Relieance is in controversy because of its close proximity to Pakistan border
• India is the 11th largest energy producer and 6th largest energy consumer
• Headquarter of OIC-Jeddah, GCC-Riyadh,Arab League-Cairo
• Operation Desert Storm-US Invasion of Iraq in 1990
• Operation Orchard-Israeli invasion of Syrian airbase
• Steve Balmer is the CEO of Microsoft
• Raju Josefa Olilo- President of Fiji
• Kishan Chaupal is a Rural Development scheme in Haryana
• FBI Chief-Robert Mueller
• Operation Chammar Sar- By indian Army in Bandipore district in North Kashmir in Harmukh range
• Nagpur will have India's largest social thermal power plant
• April 22- World Water Day
• BND- Spy Agency Of Germany
• Mossad- Spy Agency of Israel
• Savitri Jindal is India's richest woman
• Contries not part of UNFCC-Somalia, Iraq,Vatican City and Andorra
• International AIDS Conference was recently held in Mexico City
• World Water Convention-Stockholm
• NATO HQ-Brussels
• Tauvex-Indo Israel joint mission on UV imaging satellite
• LM Singhvi Committee on Indian Diaspora
• Leila Seth, Chief Justice of Delhi High Court is the first woman Chief Justice of any high court in India
• World Water Forum was recently held at Istanbul
• Leander Paes and Cara Black(Zimbabwe) won US Mixed Doubles 2008
• Now CRAR is 12%
• In the Global Competitiveness Report by World Economic Forum India ranks 50th
• India purchased Barak Anti Missile from USA
• Megan Mylan directed Oscar Winning docufil Smile Pinky
• Sri BN Srikrishna will head the committee on Mumbai Terror Attack
• JJ Irani Committee-Company Law
• Chaturvedi Committee- Oil Pricing
• The shape of the beast-Arundhati Roy
• Bio Diesel Mission is monitored and implemented by Ministry of R&D
• Recently Currency Swap Deal took place bet'n India and Japan
• Chennai started Online birth registration
• RS Sharma is the new Chairman NTPC
  
• OP Bhat-Chairman SBI
  
• At Kuthalam, India's first Helium extraction plant
• R Venkatraman, Former Indian President was a member of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution
• India and France plan to develop Maitri in the Brahmos line
• 
  

Early Medieval India

• Amoghvarsha patronised Jinasena the author of Adipurana
• The gahdwalah ruler Chndradeva imposed a tax on the Muslims called Turushkadana
• Dantidurga performed Hiranyagarbhadana
• Al Masudi wrote the book "Muruj uj jahan"
• Yashovarman the Chandella ruler built the Khajuraho temple
• The chahamans of Shakambri had several other branches in places like Pratapgarh,Lata, Satvapura, Naddula,Dwalapuri and Ranthambore
• The term Afghan means "To Cry"
• Malatimadhava of Bhabavuti was an important work to know about the kapalikas
• The famous uthor Kshemendra lived in Kashmir
• Dhanyaloka was a work on poetics
• The Chandella rulers revived the gold coins during the medieval period
• The capital of the Hindushahis was Udabandha or Undh
• Harikeli nataka written by Chahamana king Vigraharaja, is inscribed on the slabs of Adhai din ka jhopda
• Pratihara kings had the finest cavalry in the contemporary time
• Nannuka was the founder of the Chandella dynasty and Dhanga was the greatest ruler
• Govindachandra's court was adorned by Lolla Lakshmidhara the author of Kritya kalpataru
• Jaydeva wrote Prasanna Raghava
• Prithviraja Vijaya was written by Jayanka whereas Prithviraja Raso by Chand Vardai
• Govardhanacharya wrote"Aryaprasasti", an erotic poem
• Bilhana wrote Karnasundari
• Krishna I, the Rashtrakuta ruler founded Kailasha temple at Ellora
• Amoghavarsha wrote "prasnottarmalika" and "Kavirajamarga", the earliest work on poetics
• Hindushahis were known as Lallyiah Shahi in Rajtarangini
• Great poet Dhananjay, the author of "Dasarup" adorned the court of Vakpai Munja
• Samantasena was known as Brahma Kshatriya
• Dhoyi wrote Pandavadutam
• Devpala transferred the capital to Monghyr
• During the Pala ruler Rampala Sandhakar Nandi wrote "Ramcharita Manasa" and it was during this time kaivarta rebelion took place
• Dharmapala built the Vikramshila university at Patharghata
• Under the ruler Harsha, Kalhana wrote Rajtarangini in the 12th century
• During the Karkota ruler Durlabh Vardhan, Hieu-en-Tsang visited Kashmir
• The Karkota ruler Lalitaditya Muktadipa built the Sun temple at Martand
• Queen Dida who ruled between 958-1003 AD was of the Utpala dynasty and the wife of Kshemagupta
• Chandellas were the first to use Hindi in Devnagari script
• Al Mashahar went to Benaras to study Sanskrit and astronomy for decade
• The famous image of Bagdevi which is the insignia of Jnanpith award is taken from the symbol prevailing during King Bhoja
• Life science was not taught at Nalanda
• Dhara was a great centre of Sanskrit learning
• Somnath temple was dedicated to Vishnu
• Medhatithi wrote commentaries on Manu
• Chandella king Dhanga sacrificed his life at Prayag at old age
• Chalukya kings were great patrons of Jainism
• Mukteshwara temple was built in the 9th century
• Bhabhavuti author of Malatimadhava and Uttaramacharita was patronised by Yahovarman of Kanauj
• The temples within Khajuraho complex-Duladeo,Kaunarya Mahadeva,Lakshmana,Viswanath,Parshanath and Devi Jagadamba
• Bana wrote Harshacharita, Kadambari and Parvatiparinaya
• In Ellora Brahmanism,Buddhism and Jainism works are found
  

DAILY DOSE

• The 1st world Punjabi Conference was held in Chandigarh in Mrach 2008
• The first weekday after Christmas is known as Boxing Day
• Venezuela means little Venice
• Benazir Bhutto's posthumous memoir"Reconciliation:Islam, Democracy and the west"
• 7th IIM is now functional at Shillong and it is named after Rajiv Gandhi
• Monopsony is the situation when there is just one buyer in the market
• Smallest nation in the world after Vatican City is Monaco
• Arthur C Clark was a citizen of SriLanka
• World's first Youth Olympics will be hosted in Singapore in 2010
• USA gave the women the Right to Vote in 1920
• BHP Billiton is the world's biggest mining company
• Martin Luther King made his famous "Mountaintop" speech on the day before being assassinated
• World's biggest sea bridge on Yangtze River,China
• Recently Virgin Airlines started flights run on biofuel
• Recently Rabbit fever hit Thailand
• Europe's largest IT Farm- Capgemini
• Asteroids are located between Mars and Jupiter
• UK will soon introduce migration tax
• Apart from Tibet Lamaism is practiced in Mongolia as well
• Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to win Nobel Peace Prize
• Urban VII, the Pope held office for just 12 days
• Cheryl Bart and Nykki became the first Mother daughter in the world to climb Mt.Everest
• Martin Cooper invented Mobile phone
  

Chola Dynasty

• Cholas were the feaudatories of Pallavas of Kanchi
• Chola kings took high sounding titles likes Chakrobortygal
• Idols of kings and queens were installed in the temples
• The great Chola army was known as Nam Rukai Mahasenai or the army with three wings-elephantry,Infantry and cavalry
• Kadagam was thr army training and Kaikkolar was army
• Kudavolai was the pot ticket system for selection of members
• Even people belonging to the lower castes were allowed to be the members of the assemblies
• Rajadhiraja was killed by Someswara of wester chalukya in the battlefield and his son Rajendra II was declared to be the king on the battlefield whereas Adhirajadhiraja was killed by a mob
• Rajaraja I started survey of land
• Salabhoga was educational grant
• Adiperukku was the most important festival.It marked floods in Kaveri
• Kulotunga I conquered Andhra
• Rajaraja Chola conquered nothern Ceylon and made Polonnaruva the capital of that part
• Slavery existed during the period
• Sanskrit was a language of the Brahmins
• Suryavarman II, a contemporary of Rajaraja Chola built the Ankot Bhat temple in Cambodia
• Rajaraja Chola defeated Cera, Pandya and Kerala and adopted the title Mummudi Chola
• Apastamba was known as South Indian Manu

Mahajanapadas

1. River Gandak was known as Sadaneera
2. Gandhara king Pukkusati exchanged gifts with Bimbisara and went on foot to meet Buddha
3. Bimbisara was known as Srenika and Ajashatru as Kunika
4. Shishunaga transferred the capital to Vaishali but Kalashoka transferred it permanently to Patliputra
5. Nagadassaka was the last Haryanka ruler
6. Mahapadmananda was known as Sarvakshatrantaka and also Ekrat and Ekachhatra.He was also known as Ugrasena
   
7. Vatsa king Udayin fell in love with Basabdutta, wife of Chandro Prodotya Mahadaya.This has been the subject matter of Bhasa'a Swapnobasabdutta
8. Vassakara was the wicked minister of Ajatshatru
9. In Shatpatha Brahmana king was called as Viswamatta or eater of the peopleIn
10. Bimbisara defeated Brahmadatta, the ruler of Anga
11. Capital of Magadha initially was Kusumpura
12. Anguttara Nikaya gives an account of the 16 mahajanapadas
13. In Ramayana Magadha was known as Vasumati
14. Devdatta a cousin of Buddha instigated Ajatshatru to kill Bimbisara
15. Bhahrut inscription talks about Buddha's meeting with Ajatshatru
16. Panini hailed from Gandhara
17. The function of Tudiyas and Akasiyas was tax collection
18. Kalashoka was known as Kakavarna
19. Malla was a non monarchial state
20. In the Battle of Aspasioi, Alexander was injured by the Malavas
    

Post Mauryan Period

• Kushanas issued largest variety of coins
  
• Artisans and craftsmen were drawn mainly from the Shudras
• Royal writs of land grants were known as Sasanpatra whereas private writs were caled Lankikalekha or Karyalekha
• Guilds were not involved in sale or distribution of commodities
• Kushanas wre the first to issue gold coins on Roman pattern
• Sind Sauvira was famous for horses and asses
• Tamil and Chera kingdoms were the first to start trading relation with Rome
• Cotton clothes of fine quality was known as Monakhe whereas that of coarse quality was known as sagmatogene
• There was no guild for the carpenters
• Mercantile cooperation was known as Sreni
• Conventions of the guilds were knwon as Sthitipatra or Sambhitpatra
• Mathura inscription states that guilds provided loans against mortgage
• Jataka tells that there were 18 guilds
• Wima cadphises converted to saivism and called himself maheswar
• The official language of the satvahanas was Prakrit with Brahmi as the script
• Mathura inscription tells us that the guilds provided loans against mortgage
• Indo-Greeks were the first to issue gold coins
• Kushanas issued largest number of copper coins
• Vashisthiputra Pulamayee set up the capital at Pratisthana
• Begram wa sthe summer capital of the Kushanas
• Rabatak inscription talks a great deal about the Kushanas
• Aiteraya Brahmana first talked about the Satvahanas
• Arikamedu was the first Roman station to be discovered in India
• Earliest example of Amravati art from Jaggyapeta
• Oldest Buddha idol from Katra
• The earliest use of the word "Jati" in Nirukta
• Stupa at Bahrut was the oldest one
• Kanishka adopted the title "Kaiser"
• According to some sources the 3rd Buddhist Council was held in Jalandhar
• Sarnath Buddhist image inscription of Kanishka talks about dual governorship and two governors of Kanishka-Vanspara and Kharapallana
• Patanjali was the Chief priest of Pushyamitra Shunga
• Kharvela, best remembered for the Hatigumpha inscription was the ruler of the Cheta dynasty founded by Mahameghavahana
• Greeko Bactrian king Antiklidas sent Heliodorous to King Bhagvata, a shunga ruler
• Different names of different regions-

Mathura- Arjunanya
Beas and Sutlej-Kunindya
Jalandhar-Trigarta
Ludhiana, Ambala,Karnal,Hissar,Rohtak- Yaudheya(belonged to the warrior class)

• Maues was the first saka king
• St Thomas was killed in Mylapur
• In the coins of Kanishka, we find the name Boddo for Buddha
• When the members of higher varna were mortgaged they were known as Ahitaka
• Malavas started Vikram era in 57 AD
• Asvaghosha was the first to write play in Sanskrit and Buddhacharita holds the distinction of being the first complete play in Sanskrit.He also wrote Sariputta Prakarana and Ganeshastotra
• Aziles, a shaka ruler started the Abhishekha Lakshmi coins
• Arrian's book was also titled Indica
• In Nanaghat we find the earliest portrait sculptor
• Bhasha wrote Pratimanataka
• Nagarjuna was a contemporary of Gautamiputra
• Gondophernes took the itle Devavrata
• Patanjali called sakas as anirvasita shudra
• Kushanas started Devkula or temples holding the names of the kings
• Greeks started military governorship and such governors were known as Strategors
• The post Amatya was created by the Satavahanas
• Cosmos wrote Indicopleustis and Christian Topography