Indian Culture MCQs

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Poolihora or Poolihara is a type of tamarind rice. It is the famous food in Andhra Pradesh. Pulihora is prepared with kokum, tamarind, lemon or green mango as the main sour ingredients, along with spices, lentils, groundnut, and jaggery cooked in oil and mixed with rice cooked with fried curry leaves goes.

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Bandhani or Bandhej is one of the most popular, highly skilled, and embellished Indian textile arts. This is the originator of Gujarati textile art.

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Muga silk is a variety of wild silk geographically tagged endemic to the state of Assam in India. It has got a shimmering, shiny natural yellow-golden color, hence it is called golden fiber.

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Mekhla Sador is an indigenous traditional Assamese dress traditionally worn by Assamese women.

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Mudrarakshasa is a Sanskrit language play written by Visakhadatta that describes the rise of King Chandragupta Maurya to power in India. Drama is an example of creative writing, but not entirely fiction. It dates from the late fourth century to the eighth century CE in a variety of ways.

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Suryakant Tripathi “Nirala” (21 February 1897 – 15 October 1961) was an Indian poet, novelist, essayist and short-story writer who wrote in Hindi. Tripathi was born on 21 February 1897 in Medinipur, Bengal. Nirala’s father, Pandit Ramsahai Tripathi, was a government employee and tyrant. His mother died when he was very young. Nirala studied Mahishadal Raj High School in Bengali medium at Mahishadal, Purba Medinipur. After that, he moved to Lucknow and from there to Gadkola village in Unnao district where his father was originally from. Growing up, he was inspired by people like Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore.

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Kabuliwala is written by Rabindranath Tagore. Sarath Chandra Chattopadhyay, alternatively written as Sarath Chandra Chatterjee (15 September 1876 – 16 January 1938), was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century. Many of his works deal with the lifestyle, tragedies and struggles of the village people and the contemporary social practices prevalent in Bengal. He is the most popular, translated and adapted Indian writer of all time. He also wrote essays on Narir Mulya (1923) and Swadesh O Sahitya (1932). Srikanth, Chariharin, Devdas, Grihda, Dena-Payona and Pather Dabi are some of his most popular works. Pather Dabi was banned by the British government because of his revolutionary nature.

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In medieval times, the melodic systems were fused with ideas from Persian music, particularly through the influence of Sufi composers like Amir Khusro, and later in the Mughal courts, noted composers such as Tansen flourished, along with religious groups like the Vaishnavites. Artists such as Dalptaram, Mirabai, Brahmanand Swami and Premanand Swami revitalized classical Hindustani music in the 16-18th century.

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Thaats may consist of up to seven scale degrees, or swara. Hindustani musicians name these pitches using a system called Sargam, the equivalent of the Western movable do solfege:

• Sa (saroj) = Do
• Re (Rishabh) = Re
• Ga (Gandhara) = Mi
• Ma (Madhyama) = Fa
• Pa (Pancham) = So
• Dha (Dhaivat) = La
• Ni (Nishād) = Ti
• Sa (saroj) = Do

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Some of the iconic handcrafted textiles documented from north India are Khes from Panipat, Chamba rumals from Himachal Pradesh, Thigma or wool tie and dye from Ladakh and Awadh Jamdani from Varanasi.