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Prologue
Whenever someone/somethings birth anniversary is in the multiple of 5 (e.g.
20, 50, 100, 125, 175) then examiners become crazy about it: for both MCQs
as well as 2 marker/ 5marker Questions in GS Mains paper. (Same applies for
authors/poets, if youve literature as an optional subject!)
So how to find out such terms/names? One way is to keep an eye on the Stamps
released by Postal department. (also newspapers and pib.nic.in)This article contains the important stamps released from January 2012 to
December 2013 (Yes, upto December 2013 in advance- because stamp release
schedule already available on postal website.)
Biodiversity related
2012: Hyderabad hosted 11th Conference of Parties (CoP) to Convention on
Biodiversity (CBD)
Four stamps were released. These are endemic species of Indian biodiversity
hotspots
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Nicobar
Megapod
already discussed months ago
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Bugun
Liocichla
small bird, Arunachal Pradesh
discovered in 1995 by an Astronomer Ramana Athreya.
its closest relatives found in mountains of CentralChina.
Liocichla are members of the diverse bird family
known as babblers.
vulnerable under International Union for Conservation
of Naturee (IUCN) Red List.
Venated
GlidingFrog
Tamilnadu
Restricted to Indira Gandhi National Park and its
surrounding in in the South Western Ghats,within an altitudinal range of 1000-1300 metres.
Hoolock Gibbon
Important seed disperser, because they mostly eat ripe fruits.
There are two types of Gibbons.
Type Western Eastern
Within
India
Found in all North Eastern States.Between
Brahmaputra and Diban river.Outside india-
found in
Only in specific pockets
of Arunanchal Pradesh and
Assam
Outside
IndiaBangladesh, Myanmar.
Souther China, NE
Myanmar
Status
under
IUCN
redlist
Endangered Vulnerable.
Ape Vs Monkey
Hoolock Gibbon is the onlyapefound in India. Ok, Then what is the difference
between Apes and monkeys?
Ape Monkey
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Size Larger brain and body No
Example Chimpanzee, orangutans, gorillas Baboons, macaque
Has tail? No Yes
Arms Apes arms are longer than their legs. No
Swing They use their arms to swing branch to branch. no
Life expectancy 60 years 30
Family Hominoidea Cercopithecidae
Art Related
Warli Painting
Warli paintings depicts the daily and social events of the Warli tribe of
Maharashtra. (found in Northern outskirts of Mumbai)
used for decorating the walls of village houses.
Shekhawati Paintings
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Shekhawati region in Rajasthan
painted on walls of havelis.
Fresco painting technique used in it.
influenced by Persian, Jaipur and the Mughal Schools of painting.
Freedom Fighters and Polity
Silk Letter movement
known as Reshmi Rumal Tehrik
by revolutionaries connected with Darul Uloom @Deoband.
to mobilize the support of governments of Afghanistan in Turkey to invade India
and organize revolt within India to overthrow the British rule.
1916: British Authorities found some letters written on silk by Obaidullah
Sindhi, hence known as silk letter movement.
important leaders: Obauidullah Sindhi + Maulana Mahmood Hasan
Obauidullah Sindhi: later established contact with Gadhar Party leaders. He wasHome Minister in the provisional government of Azad Hind in Kabul,
Afghanistan.
UP legislature: 125 years completed
UP legislature was created under the Indian councils act 1861
although first session of UP legislature was held in 1887. Hence 2012=125th
bday.
UP After freedom
Before independence, UP=United Province.
Name UP=Uttar Pradesh was given in Jan1950
UP has bicameral legislature = assembly + council
2000: Uttarakhand carved out of UP
But still, In terms of Member strength, UP has largest state legislature.
UP has given 8 PM to India starting with Nehru.
Ghadar Movement: 100 years
1913: HQ in San Francisco, USA
important leaders
Lala Hardayal
Sohan Singh Bhakna
Taraknath Das
Mohd.Barkatullah
Rash Bihar Bose
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Vishnu Ganesh Pingley
Komagata Maru
Name of ship that was carrying Sikh immigrants from India to Canada.
But Canada did not allow them to enter.
Ship came back @Kolkata, 1914
Immigrants refused to go back to Punjab, clashes with police, 22 dead.
Madan
Mohan
Malaviya
2012=150thanniversary. Curiously no stamp was
released. (although RBI issued Rs.5 coin) but SSC
examiner went crazy about him, nonetheless! 2 MCQs
on him in CGL 2013s paper.
Was given the title of mahanama (by either Gandhi or
People of India- depending on which site/book you
refer.)
He was a moderate congress leaderAsked Congress to build memorial for Jaliawalla bagh
Founded Nationalist party
VC of Banaras Hindu university
Founder of newspaper The Hindustan Times. (took
loan from Punjab National Bank for start the paper)
KukaMovement
150th Anniversary, no stamp but RBI issued coin in Jan
2013
Kuka Movement in the Punjab (1860-1872)
originally founded by Bhagat Jawahar Mal in 1840, To
purify the Sikh religion from abuses, superstitions and
ill-practices.
But after the British annexed Punjab, Kukas started
struggle for revival of Sikh power.
ShivaRamHari
Rajguru
from Maharashtra.
member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army,assassination of Saunders
Lahor Conspiracy case
Hanged on March 23, 1931 with Bhagat Singh
Shyam
Narayan
freedom fighter and long serving legislator from Bihar.
his association with first President Dr Rajendra Prasad
Singh and first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru and
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Singh other leaders of the era.
Politicians
C AchyuthaMenon
during freedom struggle, worked for Congress
1942: joined Communist Party
Ex- Chief Minister of Kerala
Laksham Veedu program= Housing scheme of
massive scale for homeless people
RamaswamyVenkataraman
8th President of India
From Tamilnadu
Before him Giani Zail Singh
After him Shankar Dayal Sharma
ShyamaCharanShukla
veteran Indian National Congress leader was 3 times
Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
VasantdadaPatil
Took part in 1942s individual satyagraha
Governer of Rajsthan
Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Newspaper related
KarpoorChandKulish
founder of Rajasthan Patrika, a Hindi language
newspaper
Lala JagatNarain
Freedom struggle in Lahor-Punjab region.
started an Urdu daily, Hind Samachar in 1948.
Critic of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
Assassinated in 1981.
MalayalaManorama
published in the state of Kerala, India.
Quasquicentennial (125th Anniversary)
Freedom fighter, Maharashtra
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MB Kadadi Started Sangameshwar College at SolapurTook part in Swadeshi and Quit India Movements.
founded Sanchar, a Marathi newspaper
PuranChandra
Gupta
Founder Editor of Dainik Jagran media group,
one of the pioneers of Hindi Journalism.
RamgopalMaheshwari
Freedom fighter
biweekly paper Nava Bharatfrom Nagpur.
was known as Bhishma Pitamaha of journalism in
Central and Western India,
made great efforts to eradicate conservative customs
from the Maheshwari Samaj and made it more
progressive.
Times ofIndia
Completed 175 years
Started in 1838
owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
which is owned by the Sahu Jain family.
Religion related
Hanukkah: festival of lightdiplomatic relations between India-Israel started in 1992
hence 2012=20 years passed.
The stamps depict two festivals of light
Diwali=India, Kartik Month=Oct-Nov.
Hanukkah=8 day Jewish festival of light. In Nov-Dec (depending on Hebrew
calendar)
Candles symbolizing victory of good over evil.
150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda (2013)
1863: born as Narendra Nath Datta
Adopted the name Vivekananda on suggestion of Maharaja Ajit Singh of Khetri.
1893: worlds Parliament of religions in Chicago
1897: Founded Ramakrishna Mission.
Wrote inPrabuddha Bharata
1902: died @Belur Math, near Kolkata.
Sister Nivedita=Margaret Elizabeth Noble (Ireland) disciple of Swami
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Vivekananda
sidenotes
Meera ben=Madeline Slade, Britain, disciple of Gandhi
Mother Teresa =from Macedonia. Nobel Peace price79, Bharat Ratna80,
Sister Nirmala (Joshi)= succeeded Mother Teresas Missionaries organization
in Kolkata.
800TH URS
Dargah Sharif= in Ajmer, Rajasthan
Venerated by both Hindus and Muslims
it is the tomb of Khwaja Moin-ud-din Chisti,
He was a Sufi saint from Persia.
Every year Urs is held here for six days in his
remembrance.
Bhai Jagta ji saint of the Sewa Panthi order
Chaitya
Bhoomi
In Dadar, Mumbai
1962: Babasaheb Ambedkars last rites were
performed here.
It is a place of pilgrimage for the Buddhists in
India.
GIDIJI
Temple,
Mumbai
2012= its 200th bday.
Gidiji is one of the 1008 names of Parshvanath,
the 23rd tirthankar of jain religion
Jhulelal Sahib God of the Sindhi Community.
Shrine
Basilica
In Valiankanni, TN
In Gothic Style of architecture.Basilica= from greekword basilike =a royal hall.
Today, a Basilica =Church with front facing the
east.
SRIKURMAM
in Andhra.
Srikakulam= district
Srikuram = village in that district
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Famous for its temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu
Institutes/places
Bhakra Dam
opened in 1963
50 years completed.
Nehru called it the New Temple of ResurgentIndia
Across Sutlej River
Bilaspur District of HP
Gobind Sagar= reservoir of this dam.
BharatiyaVidhya Bhavan
75 years
For promotion of education + culture
By Dr. KM Munshi
In the Constituent assembly, Dr. KM Munshi was
Member of drafting Committee
Chairman of order of business Committee
Wrote some famous Gujarati Novels
1937: Home Minister of Bombay
1952: Union Food minister
Later Governor of UP
Indiainternationalcenter
New Delhi, founded by Nehrudesigned by noted architect Joseph Allen Stein.
non-profit institution works for the cultural
interaction between nations.
completed 50 years
IsabellaThoburnCollege
Lucknow
by Isabella Thoburn, an American missionary
finished 125 years.
Sci-Tech related
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician born in TN
2012 = National Mathematics Year
22 Dec = his birthday will be celebrated every year as National Mathematics Day
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(postal stamp was released in 2012)
RamanujanHardy number 1729
Because 1729 is the smallest number that can be expressed as sum of two cubes
in two different ways
1729=13+ 123
1729= 93+ 103
Indian Science congress: 100 years completed
2013s Indian Science congress was held @Kolkata.
Theme: Science for shaping future of India
Civil Aviation Centenary
18th Feb, 1911, the first commercial plane flew in India between Allahabad andNaini.
Therefore, 2011-12 was declared as the Civil Aviation Centenary Year.
Others
Businessmen
1. T. S. Narayanaswami: a visionary industrialist, led to birth of
Chemplast, South India Shippng Corporation and India Cements.
2. Aditya Vikram Birla: Hindustan gas, Hidalco, Grasim, Indian
Rayon
Medieval
Hari Singh Nalwa
Was in the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
He earned the title Nalwa for killing a tiger single handedly.
Built the city of Haripur, now in Pakistan
1837: Died in the battle of Jamrud (between Sikh and Afghan)
SRI SHIVARATHRI SHIVAYOGI
10th century saint, founded a monastery on the banks of Kapila
river at Mysore district
Writer/Scholar Misc
1921: Born, Ludhiana
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Sahir Ludhianvi
Talkhiyan: his most well known and seminal
work
50s: used to write lyrics for bollywood.
Famous for Yeh Desh hai vir Jawano ka.. song
Given Padmashri
1980: Died.
Gurazada Venkata Apparao
Telugu poet and writer of Andhra Pradesh,
India.
He wrote the first Telugu play, Kanyasulkam,
Died in 1915
Husain Ahmad Madan Islamic Scholar Deobandi Movement
Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Kashmiri poet. Pen name Mahjoor
Acharya Gyansagar wrote many Sanskrit epics.
PRATAP NARAYAN
MISHRA Hindi author
Defense related stamps
1. SCINDE HORSE: cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army
2. 3 para special force (parachute jumpers)
3. AIRBORNE WARNING AND CONTROL SYSTEM
Some other stamps were also released e.g. Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force,
Consumer protection Act, Olympics 2012 etc.
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