HISTORY AND CULTURE Flashcards
WHAT IS PARKOTA?
RECTANGULAR COMPOUND WALL (RAM TEMPLE IN AYODHYA).
WHAT IS PRAN PRATISHTHA?
IT WAS A RITUAL IN WHICH LIFE AND ENERGY IS INSTILLED INTO AN IDOL BY PRAYING TO GOD AFTER WHICH PRAYERS CAN BE OFFERED TO THE IDOL.
RAM TEMPLE IN AYODHYA IS BUILT IN WHICH STYLE?
NAGARA STYLE.
NAME THE 5 MANDAPS (HALLS) IN RAM TEMPLE IN AYODHYA?
1 NRITYA MANDAP
2 RANG MANDAP
3 SABHA MANDAP
4 PRARTHANA MANDAP
5 KIRTAN MANDAP.
MANDIRS IN RAM TEMPLE IN AYODHYA?
MANDIRS AT FOUR CORNERS OF COMPOUND DEDICATED TO
1 SURYA
2 BHAGWATI
3 GANESH
4 SHIV
ON NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN ARMS TEMPLES TO ANNAPURNA AND HANUMAN RESPECTIVELY.
TEMPLES PROPOSED IN RAM TEMPLE IN AYODHYA?
TEMPLES TO
1 MAHARISHI VALMIKI
2 VASHISHTHA
3 VISHWAMITRA
4 AGASTYA
5 NISHAD RAJ
6 SHABRI ETC ARE PROPOSED IN THE TEMPLE.
IS IRON USED IN RAM TEMPLE IN AYODHYA?
NO IRON HAS BEEN USED ANYWHERE.
POEMS BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE?
1 SONAR TARI- 1894
2 GITANJALI- 1910
3 GITIMALYA-1914
PLAYS BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE?
DAM
1 DAKGHAR- 1912
2 ACHALAYATAN -1912
3 MUKTADHARA- 1922
SHORT STORIES AND NOVELS BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE?
1 GORA- 1910
2 GHARE BAIRE- 1916
3 YOGAYOG- 1929
WHO GAVE THE TITLE MIAN TANSEN TO RAMTANU PANDEY?
HE WAS TITLED TANSEN BY RAJA VIKRAMJIT OF GWALIOR AND EMPEROR AKBAR GAVE HIM THE TITLE OF MIAN.
TEACHER OF TANSEN?
SWAMI HARIDAS AND MUHAMMAD GHAUS.
FATHER OF WARLI ART?
JIVYA SOMA MASHE POPULARIZED THE ART FORM BEYOND THE SAHYADRI MOUNTAINS IN MAHARASHTRA.
THE CENTRAL MOTIF IN EVERY WARLI RITUAL PAINTING IS A SQUARE AND IS KNOWN AS?
CHAUK OR CHAUKAT.
SAVITRIBAI PHULE ROLE IN PROMOTION OF EDUCATION?
- SAVITRIBAI PHULE AND JYOTIRAO PHULE ESTABLISHED TWO EDUCATIONAL TRUSTS
○ NATIVE FEMALE SCHOOL, PUNE
○ SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF MAHARS, MANGS AND OTHER DOWNTRODDEN CASTES. - IN 1848 SHE FOUNDED THE FIRST SCHOOL FOR GIRLS IN PUNE.
- SHE IS FORMALLY RECOGNIZED AS INDIA’S 1ST WOMEN TEACHER.
SAVITRIBAI PHULE ROLE IN WIDOW REMARRIAGE?
1 VOCAL ADVOCATE FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE WIDOWS AND CAMPAIGNED AGAINST THE PREVAILING CUSTOMS THAT FORCED WIDOWS INTO A LIFE OF DEPRIVATION.
2 ORGANIZED BARBERS STRIKE IN BOTH MUMBAI AND PUNE TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR OPPOSITION TO THE PRACTICE OF SHAVING THE HEADS OF WIDOWS.
SAVITRIBAI PHULE ROLE AS A SOCIAL REFORMER?
1 SHE AND HER HUSBAND FOUNDED SATYASHODHAK SAMAJ TO CHALLENGE OPPRESSIVE CASTE SYSTEM.
2 SHE ESTABLISHED A SHELTER (1864) FOR DESTITUTE WOMEN.
3 SHE AND HER HUSBAND FOUGHT AGAINST UNTOUCHABILITY.
4 IN 1863 THEY BEGAN BALHATYA PRATIBANDHAK GRIHA, INDIA’S 1ST HOME PROHIBITING INFANTICIDE, HELPING PREGNANT WIDOWS AND RAPE VICTIMS.
5 SHE STARTED MAHILA SEVA MANDAL TO EDUCATE WOMEN ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS AND OTHER OPPRESSIVE SOCIAL CUSTOMS SUCH AS DOWRY.
6 HER STUDENT MUKTA SALVE BECAME AN ICON OF DALIT FEMINISM AND LITERATURE.
SAVITRIBAI PHULE LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS?
- GO, GET EDUCATION
- KAVYA PHULE (1854)
- BAVAN SUBODH RATNAKAR (1892).
INDIA’S 1ST HOME PROHIBITING INFANTICIDE, HELPING PREGNANT WIDOWS AND RAPE VICTIMS WAS ESTABLISHED BY WHOM AND WHEN?
1863 BALHATYA PRATIBANDHAK GRIHA BY SAVITRIBAI PHULE AND JYOTIRAO PHULE.
JALLIKATTU IS CELEBRATED IN?
TAMIL NADU AND SRI LANKA AS PART OF PONGAL CELEBRATIONS.
BULL IS RELEASED INTO A CROWD OF PEOPLE AND PARTICIPANTS TRY TO GRAB THE LARGE BUMP ON THE BULLS BACK, ATTEMPTING TO BRING THE BULL TO STOP.
KAMBALA (BUFFALO RACING) IS CELEBRATED IN?
KARNATAKA.
BULBUL FIGHTING IS CELEBRATED IN?
ASSAM.
COCK FIGHTING IS CELEBRATED IN?
ANDHRA PRADESH.
BULLOCK CART RACING IS CELEBRATED IN?
MAHARASHTRA.
KATEEL YAKSHAGANA MELA IS CELEBRATED IN?
KARNATAKA.
FORMS OF KATEEL YAKSHAGANA MELA?
1 MOODALOPAYA FORM- COMMONLY PERFORMED IN EASTERN REGION.
2 PUDUVLOPAYA FORM- MORE COMMON IN WESTERN REGION.
LOCATION OF KALA (BLACK) RAM TEMPLE?
NASHIK, MAHARASHTRA.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF KALA RAM TEMPLE?
1 IN 1930 DR AMBEDKAR AND PANDURANG SADASHIV SANE KNOWN AS SANE GURUJI, LED AN AGITATION TO DEMAND ACCESS FOR DALITS.
2 RAM ALONG WITH SITA AND LAKSHMAN SPENT THE FIRST FEW YEARS OF THEIR EXILE IN DANDAKARANYA, THE DENSE FOREST IN CENTRAL INDIA OF WHICH PANCHAVATI (5 BANYAN TREES) WAS A PART.
TEMPLE KALARAM WAS BUILD BY?
BY SARDAR RANGARAO ODHEKAR IN 1972.
PAKKE PAGA HORNBILL FESTIVAL IS CELEBRATED IN?
ARUNACHAL PRADESH.
SAREE PARTS?
1 ANTARĪYA- THE LOWER GARMENT, RESEMBLING A FISHTAIL DHOTI WITH THE FLOWING PLEATS.
2 UTTARĪYA- A SHAWL LIKE VEIL WORN OVER THE SHOULDER OR HEAD, EVOLVING INTO THE MODERN DUPATTA AND GHOONGHAT.
3 STANAPATTA- A CHESTBAND THAT TRANSFORMED INTO THE CHOLI, A FITTED BLOUSE.
LOCATION OF BATADRAVA THAN?
LOCATED IN NAGAON DISTRICT, THE BATADRAVA THAN OR BORDOWA THAN IS ONE OF THE MOST SACRED SITES FOR ASSAMESE VAISHNAVITES.
THE THAN IS SITUATED IN THE BIRTH PLACE OF REVERED VAISHNAVITE REFORMER SAINT SRIMATA SANKARADEVA (1449-1568).
KIRTAN GHAR WAS FOUNDED WHEN AND BY WHOM?
SANKARADEVA FOUNDED THE FIRST EVER KIRTAN GHAR AT BORDOVA IN 1494 AD TO PRACTICE AND PREACH THE NEO VAISHNAVITE FAITH DURING THE FIFTEEN CENTURY IN ASSAM AND PROPAGATED THE EK SARAN NAAM DHARMA.
COMPONENTS OF SANKARADEVA DHARMA?
1 DEVA (GOD)
2 NAAM (PRAYERS)
3 BHAKTAS (DEVOTEES)
4 GURU (TEACHER)
HIS TEACHING FOCUSED ON PRAYER AND CHANTING (NAAM) INSTEAD OF IDOL WORSHIP.
MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS STARTED BY SANKARADEVA ARE KNOWN AS?
THANS/SATTRAS.
NEWSPAPER ‘FORWARD’ WAS FOUNDED BY?
BY CHITTARANJAN DAS.
SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE USED TO WORK AS THE EDITOR FOR DAS’S NEWSPAPER.
WHO AUTHORED THE BOOK INDIAN STRUGGLE?
SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE.
HAS BHARAT RATNA BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM ANYONE?
SC BOSE WAS AWARDED WITH BHARAT RATNA POSTHUMOUSLY IN 1992, BUT THIS WAS LATER WITHDRAWN OVER THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS DEATH.
IT IS THE ONLY INCIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF BHARAT RATNA THAT AN AWARD WAS WITHDRAWN.
FUTULA LAKE WAS CONSTRUCTED BY?
BUILT BY THE BHONSLE KINGS OF NAGPUR.
BHONSLE DYNASTY WAS FOUNDED IN WHICH YEAR AND BY WHOM?
1730 BY RAGHUJI BHONSLE OF BERAR.
SHIVAJI, FOUNDER OF THE MARATHA EMPIRE WAS ITS PROMINENT MEMBER.
WHAT IS EYONG?
TRADITIONAL MANIPURI LOOM.