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Today's Important News: 02 August 2012
(Time Table) UPSC : Interview Details IPS Limited Competitive Examination 2012
(Online Course) History for IAS Mains: Mauryan Empire - Determine the extent of the Mauryan Empire
(Online Course) GS Concepts : Mordern Indian History - The States Reorganisation Commission (1953)

Today's Important News: 02 August 2012

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 12:41 AM PDT

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(Time Table) UPSC : Interview Details IPS Limited Competitive Examination 2012

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 12:23 AM PDT

Union Public Service Commission

Personality Test Programme For Indian Police Service (IPS) Limited Competitive Examination, 2012

The Personality Test/ Interview for the candidates for Indian Police Service Limited Competitive Examination, 2012 has been scheduled from 6th August to 14th August, 2012.
The individual candidates are being informed through Summon Letters at their respective addresses.
The time for reporting in the Forenoon Session is 0900 Hrs. and for the Afternoon Session is 1315 Hrs.
The Interview schedule is subject to final scrunity of Detailed Application Form of the written qualified candidates.

The detailed Programme of Personality Test for individual candidates is as under :

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(Online Course) History for IAS Mains: Mauryan Empire - Determine the extent of the Mauryan Empire

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:09 PM PDT

Mauryan Empire

Topic: Determine the extent of the Mauryan Empire

Question : Determine the extent of the Mauryan Empire.

Answer: In the history of India the Mauryan Dynasty is the first historical dynasty, about which some definite historical material is available. Chandragupta Maurya founded this dynasty with the help of his minister Chanakya or Kautilya. It is said that while Chandragupta was still in the Punjab he met Alexander at Taxila and induced him to invade Magadha. But the boldness of his speech offended Alexander and he had to run for safety. It was during this exile that Chandragupta was joined by Chanakya. After the return and death of Alexander there was a general revolt against the Greek rule. In the words of Justine, "India, after Alexander's death, as if the yoke servitude had been shaken off its neck, had put his prefects to death. Sandrocottus was the leader who achieved its freedom." Thus Chandragupta made the best use of this opportunity and occupied the province of Punjab and Sindh in about 322 B.C.

According to Buddhist and Jaina sources, Chandragupta made an alliance with Parvataka, a powerful ruler of the Himalayan region and attacked Magadha. Both Dhana Nanda, the last Nanda ruler and King Parvataka were slain in this war. This success made the Maurya ruler an undisputed master of Northern India. After the death of Alexander there ensued a struggle for supremacy among his generals and ultimately Seleukus came out successful and began to be called Seleukus Nector. He became the master of a vast territory extending from Asia Minor to Indus and included Babylonia, Bacteria and Afghanistan in it. From the accounts of Greek writers like Justine, Curtious and Plutarch we come to know that when Seleukus invaded India in 305 B.C. he had to face defeat and to agree to the terms dictated by Chandragupta Maurya. Seleukus had to surrender the four provinces of Herat, Kandhar, Kabul and Baluchistan to the Mauryan ruler. Thus the limits of the Mauryan Empire were extended up to the Hindukush, "the scientific frontier of India". As regards other conquests of Chandragupta Maurya no definite details are, however available. From the Junagadh Rock Inscription of Rudradaman we come to know that Chandragupta had ruled that State and appointed a Governor there. Girnar Rock Inscription records that his Governor Pushyagupta got built a lake for promoting agricultural facilities in that region. This shows that Gujarat and Western India was included in the Mauryan Empire.

We can determine the southern extension of the Mauryan Empire on the basis of various sources like Tamil literature and Ashokan edicts. Some Tamil writers "Mamulanar and Paranar" would suggest the invasion of Far South by the same ruler. From Sidhapur, Brahmagiri, Jating -Rameshwar, Maski and other places Ashokan edicts were recovered. The XIII Rock Edict records that Ashoka won the Kingdom of Kalinga only. In this way, the credit of extending Mauryan Empire in South India goes to his grandfather, Chandragupta. In the later days of his life, according to tradition, he abdicated his throne, became a Jain ascetic and fasted unto death in a true Jain fashion at Sravana Belgola in Mysore. The Greek writers, Justin and Plutarch also refer him as the master of the whole of India. Thus Chandragupta's empire was a very vast one. It extended from Bengal in the east to the Hindukush in the west and from the Himalayas in the north to certain areas even south of the Vindhyas. It included the modern territories of Kabul, Herat, Kandhar, Baluchistan, Punjab, U.P, Bihar, Bengal, Gujarat, Kathiawar and many other areas beyond the Vindhya ranges. Chandragupta was succeeded by his son, Bindusara, very little is known about his reign. He adopted the title of "Amitraghata" or "Slayer of Foes", which shows that he must have been a great warrior like his father. Some historians also hold that it was Bindusara who conquered some Southern regions.

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(Online Course) GS Concepts : Mordern Indian History - The States Reorganisation Commission (1953)

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:43 PM PDT

Subject : Modern Indian History
Chapter : THE NATIONAL MOVEMENTS IN 1940s

Topic: The States Reorganisation Commission (1953)

Question : Write a short notes on the States Reorganisation Commission 1953.

Answer:

The States Reorganisation Commission was headed by Mr. Fazl Ali and its two other members were Pandit Hridayanath Kunzuru and Sardar K.M. Panikar. The Commission submitted its report to the government of India on September 30, 1955. Some of the important recommendations of the Commission were;

The Indian Union was to consist of 16 States as against the existing 27 and three centrally and ministered territories.
Special safeguards were recommended for linguistic minorities.
In the interests of national unity and good administration, the Commission—recommended the reconstitution of certain All India Services. It further recommended that at least 50 per cent of the new entrants to the All India Services and at least one third of the number of Judges in a High Court should consist of persons recruited from outside that State so that, administration might inspire confidence and help in arresting parochial trends.
The Commission put emphasis on the need for encouraging the study of Indian languages other than Hindi but, for some time to come, English continue to occupy an important place in the universities and institutions of higher learning.

The Commission rejected the demand for the creation of a Punjabi Speaking State (Punjabi Suba) because "the creation of such a state will solve neither the language nor the communal problem".

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