Indian Culture MCQs

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The Manipur Sangai Festival is an annual calendar mega-event of the Government of Manipur spearheaded by the Tourism Department that seeks to showcase and promote the finest of Manipur’s arts & culture, adventure sports, indigenous cuisines, handloom & handicrafts, fine arts, indigenous games & music and various other niche products to a regional, national and global audience.

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Guru Nanak said that a man was to be honoured for his devotion to God and not for his social position. He said– “God knows man’s virtues and inquires not his caste; in the next world there is no caste.”

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Correct sequence of the months is as follows:

1. Chaitra
2. Vaisakha
3. Jyestha
4. Ashadha
5. Shravana
6. Bhadrapada
7. Ashvina
8. Kartika
9. Margashirsha
10. Pausha
11. Magha
12. Phalguna

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Mulla Daud was the first poet in the ideology of Sufism belonged to Dalmau (Raebareli). His famous poem “Laur Chanda”( or Chandayan) was composed in Avadhi language in 14th century AD. It’s a love story of Norak and Chanda. He presented his work to his patron Jaunashah, who was a noble of Firoj Shah Tughlaq.

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The only Dravidian language spoken entirely outside of India is Brahui. Brahui is spoken by over 2 million people, mostly in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. Smaller groups of Brahui speakers are also found in Afghanistan, Irani Balochistan, and the Marw oasis in Turkmenistan.

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In Vedic literature the six Vedangas are: Siksa, Vyakarana, Chandas, Niruktas, Jyotisa and Kalpa. Brahmana is not a vedanga.

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According to Buddhist Sangha is proper for attainment of Moksha and they hate self-mortifications and severe penances. Jainism believes in fasts and severest penances. Buddhists do not believe in the existence of soul whereas Jainism believes the existence of soul in every living being.

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• Ab’ul Hasan Yamin ud-Din Khusrau is better known as Amir Khusrow Dehlavi. He was a Sufi musician, poet and scholar from India.
• Kabir was a 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint, whose writings, according to some scholars, influenced Hinduism’s Bhakti movement.
• Shaikh Abu al-Fazal ibn Mubarak is also known as Abul Fazal. It was the Grand vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar and author of the Akbarnama.
• Tukaram is also referred to as Sant Tukaram. He was a 17th-century Hindu poet and sant of the Bhakti movement in Maharashtra.

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In Buddhism avoidance of extremities of Penance and enjoyment stressed on which Jainism stresses on penance and extremism. Therefore, only the beliefs and practices numbered II, III, and IV were common to both Buddhism and Jainism.

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Thali is the folk dance of Rajasthan, not the folk dance of Himachal Pradesh.