Student's Encyclopedia of General Knowledge
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  • Language: English
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Student's Encyclopedia of General Knowledge

The Best Reference Book for Students, Teachers and Parents
Azeem Ahmad Khan

This encyclopedia is the best source of information and reference in a single volume, particularly for students of classes III to VIII. It provides the best of GK to its readers. Every piece of information is authentic - culled together from several areas of knowledge ranging from encyclopedias, fact books, year books, official government releases, internet and other reliable sources - and verified for accuracy. Salient Features: • The best reference book for students, teachers and parents • Includes the most up-to-date facts & figures • Alphabetical order of entries in each chapter • Believe It or Not' boxes contain over 100 amazing facts • Quiz at the end contains 200 important questions • Over 100 lavish & spectacular illustrations • Index contains around 200 direct & cross entries

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1. Common Abbreviations


An abbreviation is a short form of a word or a group of words. They are commonly used because they save time and space. Here are some common abbreviations:


AD — Anno Domini (in the year of Our Lord)


AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome


AIIMS — All India Institute of Medical Sciences


AIR — All India Radio


a.m. — ante meridiem (before noon)


AMU — Aligarh Muslim University


AP — Associated Press


ATM — Automated Teller Machine


B&W — Black and White


BA — Bachelor of Arts


BBC — British Broadcasting Corporation


BC — Before Christ


BEd. — Bachelor of Education


BP — Blood Pressure


BSc. — Bachelor of Science


BSF — Border Security Force


BSNL — Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited


CA — Chartered Accountant


CBI — Central Bureau of Investigation


CBSE — Central Board of Secondary Education


CBT — Children’s Book Trust


CFL — Compact Fluorescent Lamp


CIA — Central Intelligence Agency (USA)


CID — Criminal Investigation Department


CNN — Cable News Network


CTBT — Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty


DIG — Deputy Inspector General


DNA — Deoxyribonucleic Acid


DOS — Disk Operating System


DTP — Desk-top Publishing


DVD — Digital Versatile Disc


E&OE — Errors and Omissions Exempted


ECG — Electrocardiogram


e.g. — exempli gratia (for example)


EMI — Equated Monthly Installments


etc. — et cetera (and other things)


FBI — Federal Bureau of Investigation


FIFA — Federation International de Football Association


(Federation of the International Football Association)


FIR — First Information Report


FM — Frequency Modulation


FYI — For Your Information


GMT — Greenwich Mean Time


Govt. — Government


GPO — General Post Office


HIV — Human Immunodeficiency Virus


HQ — Headquarters


IA — Indian Airlines


IAF — Indian Air Force


IAS — Indian Administrative Service


IBM — International Business Machines


ICU — Intensive Care Unit


i.e. — id est (that is)


IGNOU — Indira Gandhi National Open University


IIT — Indian Institute of Technology


INA — Indian National Army


INTERPOL — International Criminal Police Commission


IPS — Indian Police Service


IQ — Intelligence Quotient


ISBN — International Standard Book Number


ISD — International Subscriber Dialling


ISI — Indian Standards Institution/Inter-Services Intelligence (Pakistan)


IST — Indian Standard Time


ISRO — Indian Space Research Organization


ITI — Industrial Training Institute


ITO — Income Tax Officer/International Trade Organization


lbw — leg before wicket


LCD — Liquid-crystal Display


LIC — Life Insurance Corporation


LLB — Bachelor of Laws


LPG — Liquefied Petroleum Gas


Ltd. — Limited


LTTE — Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam


MA — Master of Arts


MBA — Master of Business Administration


MBBS — Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery


MLA — Member of Legislative Assembly


MNC — Multinational Corporation


MO — Money Order


MP — Member of Parliament


Mr. — Mister


Mrs. — Missus/Missis


MSc. — Master of Science


MTNL — Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited


NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)


NATO — North Atlantic Treaty Organization


NB — nota bene (note well)


NBT — National Book Trust


NCC — National Cadet Corps


NCERT — National Council of Educational Research and Training


NDA — National Defence Academy


NFDC — National Film Development Corporation


NIIT — National Institute of Information Technology


NRI — Non-resident Indian


OK — Okay (all correct)


OPD — Outdoor Patients Department


OTP — One Time Password


PC — Personal Computer


PFA — Plesae Find Attached


Ph.D — Doctor of Philosophy


PIB — Press Information Bureau


PIN — Postal Index Number/Personal Identification Number


p.m. — post meridiem (after noon)


PM — Prime Minister


PNB — Punjab National Bank


PO — Post Office


PTI — Press Trust of India


PTO — Please Turn Over


Pvt. — Private


R&D — Research and Development


RBI — Reserve Bank of India


RSVP — repondez sil vous plait (please reply)


SAARC — South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation


SAIL — Steel Authority of India Limited


SBI — State Bank of India


SC — Supreme Court/Schedule Caste


Sign. — Signature


SIM — Subscriber Identification Module (Card)


SLV — Satellite Launch Vehicle


SMS — Short Message Service


SOS — Save Our Souls


STD — Subscriber Trunk Dialling


TTE — Train Ticket Examiner


UFO — Unidentified Flying Object


UNESCO — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization


UNI — United News of India


UNICEF — United Nations Children’s Fund


UNO — United Nations Organization


UPSC — Union Public Service Commission


via — by way of


VIP — Very Important Person


viz. — videlicet (namely)


VPP — Value Payable Post


vs. — versus (against)


WHO — World Health Organization


WWF — Worldwide Fund for Nature


www — worldwide web


Xmas — Christmas


YMCA — Young Men’s Christian Association


YWCA — Young Women’s Christian Association


2. Famous Books (India)


Name of the Book                 Author


A Suitable Boy                     Vikram Seth


Ain-i-Akbari                        Abul Fazal


Anand Math                        Bankim Chandra Chatterji


Arthashastra                       Kautilya


Babarnama                        Babar


Bhagavadgita                    Ved Vyas


Broken Wing                        Sarojini Naidu


Devdas                                  Sharat Chandra Chatterji


Dewan-e-Ghalib               Mirza Ghalib


Discovery of India             Jawaharlal Nehru


Gitanjali                                Rabindranath Tagore


Glimpses of World History        Jawaharlal Nehru


Godan                                   Premchand


Golden Gate                        Vikram Seth


Gora                                       Rabindranath Tagore


Guide                                     R.K. Narayan


Guru Granth Sahib            Guru Arjun Dev


India Divided                       Dr. Rajendra Prasad


India Wins Freedom         Maulana Abul Kalam Azad


Mahabharata                     Ved Vyas


Man-eaters of Kumaon  Jim Corbett


Meghdoot                            Kalidas


Midnight’s Children           Salman Rushdie


My Experiments with Truth       Mahatma Gandhi


My Truth                                Indira Gandhi


Panchatantra                     Vishnu Sharma


Ram Charit Manas            Tulsidas


Ramayana                          Valmiki


Rangbhoomi                       Premchand


Satanic Verses                   Salman Rushdie


Shakuntala                          Kalidas


Song of India                       Sarojini Naidu


Sunny Days                          Sunil Gavaskar


The God of Small Things       Arundhati Roy


3. Famous Books (World)


Name of the book                 Author


A Passage to India            E.M. Forster


A Tale of Two Cities           Charles Dickens


Adventures of Sherlock Holmes         Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Alice in Wonderland         Lewis Carroll


Animal Farm                       George Orwell


Arabian Nights                   Sir Richard Burton


Arms and the Man            George Bernard Shaw


Around the World in Eighty Days       Jules Verne


As You Like It                        William Shakespeare


Das Kapital                          Karl Marx


David Copperfield             Charles Dickens


Dr. Zhivago                           Boris Pasternak


Great Expectations           Charles Dickens


Gulliver’s Travels                Jonathan Swift


Hamlet                                  William Shakespeare


Harry Potter Series             J.K. Rowling


Iliad                                        Homer


Julius Caesar                      William Shakespeare


Jungle Book                         Rudyard Kipling


Jurassic Park                       Michael Crichton


Man and Superman         George Bernard Shaw


Odyssey                                Homer


Oliver Twist                          Charles Dickens


Origin of Species               Charles Darwin


Paradise Lost                       John Milton


Principia                                Sir Isaac Newton


Republic                               Plato


Robinson Crusoe               Daniel Defoe


Romeo and Juliet              William Shakespeare


Three Musketeers              Alexander Dumas


Through the Looking-Glass      Lewis Carroll


Treasure Island                  R.L. Stevenson


Uncle Tom’s Cabin            H.B. Stowe


War and Peace                  Count Leo Tolstoy


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