Indian Culture MCQs

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Tirunelveli also known as Nellai and historically known as Tinvelli is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the administrative headquarters of the Tirunelveli district. It is the sixth-largest municipal corporation in the state after Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, and Salem.

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Rignai is the traditional dress of Tripuri women native to Tripura. It is a garment worn around the waist. It is worn with “rikutu”. It covers the upper half of the body. It is worn by every Tripuri woman in Tripura.

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During the reign of Aurangzeb, many satirists, such as Jafar Jatali, wrote their own Kulliyats. Zafar Jatalli compiled his writings from various literary processes in Jatal-nama during the last quarter of Aurangzeb’s reign, i.e. the last quarter of the seventeenth century. It is possible that the genre was edited and updated by the poet himself or by some later poets and writers. Although some parts of the work are incorrectly attributed to the couple, it is important that the subjects covered by the poet, as well as their language and form, be of interest to people who read Urdu.

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Padshanama or Badshah Nama is a collection of works written as an official history of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. Illustrated texts are called Shahjahannama, with the Padshahnama for the illustrated manuscript versions. These works are one of the main sources of information about Shah Jahan’s rule.

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Randhari Singh (23 September 1908 – 24 April 1974), better known by his name de Plum Dinkar, was an Indian Hindi and Maithili language poet, essayist, patriot and educator. [1] His nationalist poetry, written in the days before Indian independence, re-emerged as his rebel poet. His poetry is full of Veer juice, [definition required] and he is revered as a national poet (‘national poet’) for his inspiring patriotic compositions. [2] He was the general poet of the Hindi Poetry Society and was known to Hindi speakers as Pushkin to the Russians and was associated with poetry lovers.

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Bapu: My Mother is written by Manuben Gandhi. At the age of 14, Manu became one of the youngest prisoners of India’s freedom struggle. She joined Gandhi, who was imprisoned after her demand to end British rule, and ended up spending almost a year – between 1943 and 1944 – in prison. She also started writing a diary which becomes the primary source for analysing Gandhi’s life.

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The Dwarkadhish temple, also known as the Jagat Mandir, is located on the Banks of Gomti river in Dwarka, Gujarat. According to tradition, the original temple was believed to have been built by Krishna’s grandson, Vajranabha. The original structure was destroyed by Mahmud Begada in 1472, and subsequently rebuilt in the 15th-16th century.

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The works of Upendra Bhanja such as Baidehisha Bilasa, Koti Brahmand Sundari, and Labanyabati are considered milestones of Odia literature.

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India’s ‘Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai’ has been inscribed in the list of UNESCO World Heritage property. The decision was taken at the 42nd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Manama, Bahrain.

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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.