Art and Culture Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 11)

The note says the origin of the Nirmal craft is traced back to the Kakatiya era. It describes the Kakatiyas as rulers between the 11th and 14th centuries, with Warangal as their capital.

The note says Nirmal oil paintings use natural dyes to show themes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. It also names floral designs, Ajanta and Ellora frescoes and Mughal miniatures as motifs.

The Handicrafts Ministry page names the Naqash community as the artisans of the Nirmal art. Other accounts give the same name for the artisans.

Nirmal toys were first made from poniki, also called white sander, a local softwood. This differs from Nirmal paintings, which the Handicrafts Ministry page describes on teak boards.

NGMA lists F. N. Souza, S. H. Raza, M. F. Husain, K. H. Ara, H. A. Gade, and S. K. Bakre as founding members. Tate counts four founders; the others joined soon after.

Tamil came first (12 October 2004), then Sanskrit (25 November 2005), Malayalam (8 August 2013) and Odia (1 March 2014). Options starting with Sanskrit are wrong because Tamil was the first classical language. Odia came after Malayalam, not before.

The 2024 rules kept the 1,500–2,000 year age bar and added knowledge texts, prose and inscriptional evidence. They dropped the old test of an original, unborrowed literary tradition. So statement 3 is wrong, and only 1 and 2 are correct.

Pali goes to the Central University of Odisha and Prakrit to the Central University of Gujarat. Assamese goes to Tezpur University, and Marathi to Deccan College, Pune. A common slip is swapping the Pali and Prakrit hosts.

UNESCO inscribed Garba of Gujarat onto its Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in December 2023, India’s 15th entry on this list. Garba is a devotional dance performed during Navaratri, honoring the goddess Shakti, danced in a counter-clockwise circle around a lamp-lit pot. This is why Garba is the correct answer.

ICOMOS chose this theme to mark the UN International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development in 2017. It highlighted the growing link between conserving cultural heritage sites and developing sustainable tourism around them. The day is observed every year on 18 April, organized by ICOMOS with UNESCO.

Chandrakant Sompura, from a temple-building family that also designed the Somnath Temple in Gujarat, is the chief architect of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya.

Historians divide the civilisation into three broad phases: Early Harappan, Mature Harappan, and Late Harappan, tracking its rise, peak, and gradual decline.

Many historians point to the drying up of the Saraswati (Ghaggar-Hakra) river system as a major factor, since several important Indus settlements sat along its course and would have lost a critical water source as it weakened.

Indus Valley bricks followed a standardised 4:2:1 length-width-height ratio, held consistently across widely separated sites – strong evidence of shared building standards across the civilization.

Dharana (concentration), Dhyana (meditation), and Samadhi (absorption), the final three limbs, are grouped together as Samyama – a connected, progressively deepening sequence rather than three separate practices.

Baghdadi Jews arrived in India much later than the Cochin Jews and Bene Israel, mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries, settling as merchants chiefly in Calcutta and Bombay – families like the Sassoons built major trading and philanthropic institutions there.

Wahdat-ul-Wujud, unity of being, holds that all existence is one with the divine at its deepest level. This gave Sufism a philosophical basis for tolerance and syncretism with devotional Hindu traditions.

West Bengal Tourism records Bose as Kala-Bhavana principal for about three decades (1922–1951 there; other sources say from 1921).

The colonial government treated patriotic songs as a genuine political threat, not mere cultural expression, because of their power to mobilise and unite crowds at nationalist gatherings.

The Sirat-i-Firuz Shahi, a chronicle of Firoz Shah Tughlaqs reign, includes a painted illustration of the pillar being moved on a 42-wheeled carriage, wrapped in raw hides and hauled by thousands of men.

Over time in Dravida architecture, gopurams grew very large. Visitors approaching a temple often see the gateway tower long before the smaller original shrine tower inside, a reversal of the temples original visual hierarchy.

Ratnams style offered a distinct third path: serious social and political themes delivered through mainstream, musically-driven production values, different from both Rays austere realism and Bollywoods purely commercial format.

Roja won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. Mani Ratnam received a Rajat Kamal as director.

Pallavi Anu Pallavi (1983) was made in Kannada and was Ratnam’s first film as director.