Indian Culture MCQs

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Coimbatore is known as Manchester of South India. The presence of a cotton production area in the neighboring village gives major production in the textile industry.

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Langa Voni is a type of South Indian dress mainly worn in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu as well as parts of Kerala. The dress is a three-piece garment whereas the langa or lehenga is a cone-shaped long flowing skirt.

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Sindhi is added under 21st Constitutional Amendment Act, 1967 to the 8th schedule of Indian constitution. People of Gujarat speak Sindhi.

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Vedanga Jyotish (Vedanga Jyotish), or Jyotishvedanga (Jyotishvedangam), is one of the first known Indian texts on astrology (jyotisha). The current text is from the last century BCE, but may be based on the tradition of about 700–600 BCE. This book is the foundation of astrology, one of the six theological disciplines. Its author is traditionally named Lagada.

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The Gatha Saptashati is one of the oldest texts in the Subhashit-style. It deals with feelings of love and is referred to as the “opposite intensity” of the Kama Sutra. While the Kama Sutra is a theoretical work on love and Gaha Sattasai is a practical compilation of examples illustrating the “unholy reality of life” where seduction principles do not work, making love complex and emotionally exciting. Feels imperfect. It states in one verse that Radha and Krishna are the hero and heroine respectively.

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In Sri Lanka, there is a ‘great scripture’ on Buddhist practice and Theravada Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa in the 5th century. This is a manual presentation and sorting of a 5th-century understanding and interpretation of the Buddhist path created by the elders of the Mahavihara Math in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
It is considered the most important Theravada text outside the Tipitaka doctrine the texts and has been described as “the center of a complete and coherent interpretation of Tipitaka”.

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Baptist Mission Press was a book and newspaper publisher that operated from 1800 to 1837 in Serampore, Denmark. The press was founded by William Carey, William Ward and other British Baptist missionaries at Serampore Mission. It started operations on 10 January 1800.

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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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Sudama Charitra and Shringarmala are examples of devotional poetry written in the Gujarati language.

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Hindustani Classical Music arose in the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb, a period of great influence of Perso-Arabic arts in the subcontinent, especially the Northern parts. This music combines the Indian classical music tradition with Perso-Arab musical knowledge, resulting in a unique tradition of gharana system of music education.