Indian Culture MCQs

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It was founded in 1942 in Madurai by S. P. Aditanar. Dina Thanthi is the largest daily newspaper in India printed in Tamil and the ninth-largest daily newspaper in India by circulation. It has been printed in 16 cities in India and also has an international edition in Dubai.

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The Hindu widow remarriage was passed in 1829. It saved the widows from the death they were subjected to exploitation and humiliation. To remove the deplorable condition of the Hindu widows, a leading social reformer of the day, pandit Ishwara Chandra Vidya Sagar, brought pressure on the British govt. to make legal provisions for widow marriage.

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The first cotton textile mill was established in 1818 at Fort Gloster, Kolkata, but this mill was unsuccessful. The 2nd mill was established in 1854 in Mumbai which led to the foundation of the cotton textile industry in India.

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Hindi is the official language of the Center in India and English as a temporary official sub-language. Different state legislatures can adopt any regional language as the official language of that state.

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Bengali is the fifth most spoken native language and the sixth most spoken by the total number of speakers in the world.
Bengali is the official and national language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. Within India, Bengali is the official language of the Barak Valley region of the state of West Bengal, Tripura, and Assam.

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Harishwar composed Harishchandra Kavya and Somnath Charit, it is the literature of the Kannada language.
Kannada literature flourished between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries under the patronage of the Vijayanagara kings.

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Pinglay Venkayya designed the national flag of India. He included primarily two colour in his flag which represents Hindi and Muslim. He used red colour for Hindu, and green for Muslim.

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An aspect of Hindustani music going back to Sufi times is the tradition of religious neutrality: Muslim ustads may sing compositions in praise of Hindu deities, and Hindu pandits may sing similar Islamic compositions.

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Vishnu Digambar Paluskar emerged as a talented musician and organizer despite having been blinded at age 12. His books on music, as well as the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya music school that he opened in Lahore in 1901, helped foster a movement away from the closed gharana system.

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Dravida style of architecture has pyramidical shaped central tower (called Vimana in Dravida style). In this style, there is only one single Shikhara or Vimana. Deployed for Hindu temples in Tamil Nadu from the 7th to 18th century, characterized by its pyramidal tower. Unlike the Nagara temple, the Dravida temple is enclosed within a compound wall. The front wall has an entrance gateway in its centre, which is known as Gopura/ Gopuram Consists of a square-chambered sanctuary topped by a superstructure or tower (Vimana) Consists of an attached pillared porch or hall (Mandapa) which precedes the door leading to the nucleus cell Hence, b is the correct option.