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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

http://mrunal.org/2012/11/biodiversity-amur-falcon-nicobar-

megapod-narcondam-hornbill-upsc-mock.html

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
http://mrunal.org/2012/11/biodiversity-amur-falcon-nicobar-megapod-narcondam-hornbill-upsc-mock.html


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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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