Art and Culture Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 28)

Article 371A protects Naga customary law, social practices and land. The 13th Amendment added it in 1962. An Act of Parliament on these matters applies only if the Nagaland Assembly decides so by a resolution. The article does not mention the Hornbill Festival or any other event. The festival and the article both relate to Naga identity, but they are separate things. Memory hook: 371A guards customs and land, not celebrations.

Rann Utsav was first held in 2005, as a short festival that later grew into a season-long event.

Rann Utsav is held at Dhordo, on the edge of the Great Rann of Kutch, the world’s largest salt desert.

Phulkari is referenced in the poetry of the Sufi saint Baba Farid, placing its Punjab roots at least in the 15th century.

Phulkari is worked on khaddar, a coarse, hand-woven cotton, using an untwisted silk thread called pat.

A piece fully covered in embroidery, with none of the base cloth showing, is called “bagh,” meaning garden.

Bengal Pattachitra is traditionally painted on silk, with bolder lines than Odisha’s cotton-based, fine-line temple art.

Raghurajpur was named India’s first Heritage Craft Village in 2000, following a two-year documentation project by INTACH.

During Anasara, the Jagannath idol is considered unwell for 15 days after its ritual bath. Painted Pattachitra images substitute for it in worship during this period.

Patta means cloth, and chitra means image or picture. The name describes a picture painted on cloth.

Bakhiya is worked from the reverse side of the fabric, creating a faint pattern visible on the front.

Nur Jahan, wife of Emperor Jahangir, is traditionally credited with introducing the craft in the 17th century.

Kani weaving builds the pattern into the fabric itself on a loom, unlike Sozni’s needle embroidery on an already-woven shawl.

Kashmir Pashmina was registered on 9 December 2005; Ladakh Pashmina raw wool got its own GI tag in October 2024.

Pashmina is combed from a live goat’s shed coat, but shahtoosh requires killing the Tibetan antelope, 3 to 5 per shawl.

Sultan Zain-ul-Abidin is traditionally credited with founding the craft, after bringing weavers from Central Asia.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports recognised the Indian Kalaripayattu Federation (established 1995) as a National Sports Federation in 2015.

The correct answer is The Kottayathu War, an uprising led by Pazhassi Raja. The British banned the art in the early 19th century. Al Jazeera gives 1804. Open magazine says the ban followed the Kottayathu War. Memory hook: ban after a revolt.

The correct answer is The Sushruta Samhita. Marma means a vital point of the body. Marma knowledge belongs to Marmashastra, a part of Shalyatantra in Ayurveda. Sushruta is named among the old writers on it. Memory hook: marma and Sushruta go together.