Summary of "GS For SSC Exams 2025 | GS Practice Set #02 | GK GS MCQs For All Competitive Exams, GS By Naveen Sir"
Summary of the Video: "GS For SSC Exams 2025 | GS Practice Set #02 | GK GS MCQs For All Competitive Exams, GS By Naveen Sir"
Main Ideas and Concepts Covered:
This extensive video by Naveen Sharma is a comprehensive General Studies (GS) practice and lecture session aimed at SSC and other competitive exams preparation for 2025. It covers a wide range of topics including history, geography, polity, awards, culture, science, sports, economy, and current affairs, structured as a practice set with explanations and important facts.
Key Topics and Lessons:
1. General Instructions for Practice:
- Revise each practice set for 5-10 minutes after completion.
- After completing 5 sets, revise all together.
- Revise periodically (e.g., every 10 days) for retention.
- Aim for a perfect score (5/5) in each set.
2. Culture and Arts:
- Kathakali dance: Associated with Kerala; famous families include Kavangal family.
- Important Kathakali personalities: Chatunni Panikkar (Padma Shri 2006), Sadanam P Balakrishnan (Padma Vibhushan 2024), Margi Vijay Kumar (Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 2023).
- Classical dances of India: Kathak (North), Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Mohiniyattam, Odissi (South), Manipuri and Sattriya (Northeast).
- Australian Kathakali promoter: Lewis Lightfoot.
- Sangeet Natak Akademi and awards like Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar.
3. International Organizations and Awards:
- UNO established on 24 October 1945; UN Day celebrated on 24 October.
- Nobel Prize origin: Norway, capital Oslo; first awarded in 1901.
- Posthumous Nobel Prize recipients: Only two (Erik Axel Karlfeldt and Dag Hammarskjöld).
- UN Secretariat head is called Secretary-General; first was Trygve Lie (Norway).
- Current UN Secretary-General: Antonio Guterres (Portugal).
- First Asian UN Secretary-General: U Thant (Myanmar).
4. Indian Awards and Honours:
- Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award, followed by Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri.
- Posthumous Bharat Ratna recipients total 20.
- First posthumous Bharat Ratna: Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966).
- First female posthumous Bharat Ratna: Aruna Asaf Ali (1997).
- Foreign Bharat Ratna recipients include Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Nelson Mandela.
- Sachin Tendulkar: First sportsperson and youngest Bharat Ratna awardee (2014).
- First musician Bharat Ratna: M.S. Subbulakshmi (1998).
- Other notable awardees: Lata Mangeshkar, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Bismillah Khan.
5. Indian History and Polity:
- Constituent Assembly:
- First meeting: 9 December 1946; first temporary president Sachchidanand Sinha.
- Permanent president: Dr. Rajendra Prasad (from 11 December 1946).
- Objective Resolution presented by Nehru on 13 December 1946, accepted on 22 January 1947.
- Constitution adopted on 26 November 1949; came into effect on 26 January 1950.
- Key committees: Drafting Committee (headed by B.R. Ambedkar), Advisory Committee (Sardar Patel, J.B. Kripalani, H.C. Mukherjee).
- Total members: 389 before partition; 299 remained after partition.
- Women members: 15 initially; 12 remained after partition.
- European trading companies:
- British first temporary factory in Masulipatnam (1611).
- First permanent factory in Surat (1613).
- French factory in Surat (1668).
- Danish factory in Tranquebar (1616).
- Battles:
- Battle of Plassey (1757) - start of British rule.
- Battle of Buxar (1764) - British victory; Nawabs involved: Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daula; Mughal emperor Shah Alam II.
- Carnatic Wars and Anglo-Mysore Wars:
- Three Carnatic Wars (1746-48, 1749-54, 1756-63).
- Anglo-Mysore Wars (four wars between 1767-1799).
- Treaties: Axela Seppel Treaty, Treaty of Pondicherry, Treaty of Mangalore, Treaty of Srirangapatna.
6. Geography and Demographics:
- National Waterways
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