The Making of regional cultures

Question 1

What do we tend to associate each region with?

Answer 1

With distinctive types of food,clothes , poetry , dance, music and painting

Question 2

What are regional cultures often a product of?

Answer 2

They are often the product of complex processes of intermixing of local traditions with ideas from other parts of the subcontinent.

Question 3

Give an example of a connection between language and region. [Any relevant answer]

Answer 3

Malayalam , Bengal , etc

Question 4

The Chera kingdom of __________ was established in the _______ century, in the south-western part of peninsula, part of present day ______.

Answer 4

Mahodayapuram, 9th , Kerala

Question 5

In which area was Malayalam likely spoken?

Answer 5

South-western part of peninsula , part of present day Kerala, Mahodoyapuram 9th century

Question 6

How did the rulers introduce Malayalam?

Answer 6

The rulers introduced Malayalam language and script in their inscriptions.

Question 7

True or False? Malayalam is one of the oldest examples of the use of regional languages in official records in the subcontinent.

Answer 7

False, One of the earliest examples

Question 8

What did the the temple theatre of Kerala borrow?

Answer 8

Stories from Sanskrit epics

Question 9

The first _________ in Malayalam are traced to the 12th century.

Answer 9

Literary works

Question 9

Which languages do Manipravalam refer to?

Answer 9

Sanskrit and the regional language

Question 9

In which century are the first literary works of Malayalam traced to? Which language are they directly indebted to?

Answer 9

12th century, Sanskrit

Question 10

The ___________, dealing with grammar and _______, was composed in ____________, meaning diamonds and _________ .

Answer 10

Lilatilakam , 14th century, poetics, corals