Current Affairs : One liners – 30-12-2018

1. Madhya Pradesh Government will create an Adhyatmik Vibhag (spiritual

department) by merging several existing departments. .

2. An exhibition ‘Dandi Yatra', which is a part of the celebrations of the

150th birth anniversary of father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi, was
inaugurated in New Delhi.

3. PM Narendra Modi released a commemorative stamp on Maharaja Suheldev.

4. The government of Uttar Pradesh has initiated One District, One Product scheme to
encourage indigenous and specialized products and crafts of the state.

GENERAL STUDIES – HISTORY ( MODERN INDIA )

Lord Wellesley became the Governor General of India in 1798

 Lord Wellesley signed the First Subsidiary Treaty with the Nizam of
Hyderabad in 1798
 Lord Wellesley often described himself as the “Bengal Tiger”
 British Occupied Delhi in 1803 in the Battle of New Delhi
 Vellore Mutiny of 1806 was the first instance of Violent Mutiny by the
Indian Sepoys against the East India Company which lasted only for a day but
was brutal
 Lord Minto I was appointed Governor General of India in 1807
 Treat of Amritsar was signed between Bitish East India Company and Ranjit
Singh – Founder of Sikh Empire .
 Lord Hastings was appointed Governor General of India in 1812
 Ryotwari System was introduced in Madras by Thomas Munro
 Anglo – Nepal War or Gorkha War was fought in 1814-1816 between British
East India Company and Kingdom of Gorkha,in which Kingdom of Gorkha lost
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the battle and British ceded one-third of the Nepal Kingdom at the Treaty of
Sagauli
 Lord William Bentick became the first Governor General of India by The
Government of India Act 1833 or Charter Act 1833
 Lord William Bentick was also considered the Father of Modern Western
Education in India
 Foundation of Calcutta Medical College in 1835

 Officiating Governor General Charles Metcalfe was popularly called as the

Liberator of the Press for his work on abolition of Press restrictions
 Lord Auckland appointed as Governor General of India in 1836
 The Agra Famine of 1837-38 affected nearly 8 Million people of North India
 The First Anglo – Afghan war was fought between Imperial British India and
the emirate of Afghanistan from 1839 – 1842
 Ghazni and Kabul were captured by General Keane during the Afghan War
 The first Anglo - Sikh war was fought between Sikh empire and the British
East India Company at the Battles of Mudki and Ferozpur
 Lord Dalhousie became the Governor General of India in 1848
 The policy of Doctrine of Lapse was introduced by Lord Dalhousie, the policy
means that if the ruler of a princely state or territory under the

MADHYA PRADESH G.K

1.M.P PROMINENT RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTES

1.Dr. Ambedkar National Social Science Institute- Mhow, Indore

2. Water and Land Management Institution (WALMI) – Bhopal
3. Madhya Pradesh Forest Research Institute- Jabalpur
4. Mahatma Gandhi State Rural Development Institute- Jabalpur

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5. Police Wireless Training College- Indore

2. FIRST IN M.P
1. 1st Election Commissioner- N.V Lohani
2. 1st Information Commissioner- T.N. Shrivastava

3.1st Lokayukt- P.V. Dixit

4. 1st Women I.P.S.- KU. Asha Gopalan

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