Regional Cultures
Extra Questions
Match Columns
| Column I | Column II |
|---|
| (1) The Kansari | (a) Malayalam |
| (2) Wajid Ali Shah | (b) Bengal Temple |
| (3) The Cheras | (c) Kathak |
Answer: i - b, ii - c, iii – a
Multiple Choice Questions
Select the correct combination from the following
- Brilliant colours- Mughal miniature paintings
- Soft colours- Kangra painting
- Brilliant colours- Kangra painting
- Both a and b
Answer: (d) Both a and b
Prithviraj was a ____ ruler
- Mughal
- Chola
- Rajput
- Maratha
Answer: (c) Rajput
____ was the last Nawab of Awadh
- Wajid Ali Shah
- Akbar
- Rajaraja I
- Prithviraj
Answer: (a) Wajid Ali Shah
_____ was decorated in the temples having four-roofed structure?
- Only the interior
- Outer walls
- Both a and b
- None of the above
Answer: (b) Outer walls
Bengal produces plenty of ____
- Wheat
- Rice
- Fish
- Both b and c
Answer: (d) Both b and c
Fill in the blanks:
- __________ permitted Bengal Brahamanas to eat certain fish varieties.
Answer: Brihaddharma Purana
- Some of the most beautiful miniature paintings found in western India were used to illustrate _____ texts.
Answer: Jaina
- The legends of Radha-Krishna were enacted in folk plays called _____.
Answer: Rasa Lila
- The region that constitutes most of the present-day Rajasthan was called______ in the 19th century.
Answer: Rajputana
- ____ was the Chinese traveler who noted that languages related to Sanskrit were in use all over Bengal.
Answer: Xuan Zang
Very Short Answer Type Questions:
Name the aspects with which we tend to associate each region.
Answer: Distinctive kinds of food, clothes, poetry, dance, painting and music.
What are miniatures?
Answer: These are small-sized paintings generally done in water colour on cloth or paper.
Where did the ordinary men and women paint?
Answer: On pots, walls, floors and cloth.
Define Basohli.
Answer: It is a bold and intense style of miniature painting that developed in the late 17th century in the Himalayan foothills around the present-day Himachal Pradesh.