19.10.17 KPSC (Karnataka) Daily Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   CM Siddaramaiah bats for GST exemption on handmade products, writes to finance minister   Taking a stance in light of the satyagraha embarked and broken by noted theatre personality Prasanna this week, on the goods and services tax (GST) being levied upon handloom products, chief minister Siddaramaiah has written to union finance minister Arun Jaitley … Read more

19.10.17 (KPSC) Karnataka Daily Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   CM Siddaramaiah bats for GST exemption on handmade products, writes to finance minister   Taking a stance in light of the satyagraha embarked and broken by noted theatre personality Prasanna this week, on the goods and services tax (GST) being levied upon handloom products, chief minister Siddaramaiah has written to union finance minister Arun Jaitley … Read more

The Commissioners Rule (1831-1881)

The Commissioners Rule (1831-1881)         Following the annexation of Mysore to English East India Company the British began to administer the state of Mysore from 1831-1881 by creating a new office called the office of commissioners. Initially the office had two commissioners-colonels Briggs as the senior commissioner and Lushington as the junior … Read more

ChikkadevarajaWodeyar – Contributions; The Nayakas of Keladi and Chitradurga; Rani Chennamma&SangolliRayanna of Kittur, The YalahankaNadaprabhu; Hyder Ali and Tippu Sultan (1761-1799).  

Much of Karnataka experience immedicable social and political  turmoil in the centuries between the collapse of the Vijayanagara Empire in the late 1500s and the death of Tipu Sultan in 1799. It was an era of dynamic change, during which  inconsiderable rulers and chiefs, variously called “little kings,” nayakas, and poligars in historical accounts, fought … Read more

Unification of Karnataka

Unification of Karnataka The struggle for the unification of all Kannada speaking areas began in the late 19th century. Historians point out that the origin of the movement for linguistic provinces can be traced to same time e.g., the demand of the Oriya speaking people and the demand for Sylhet district to be transferred from … Read more