Indian Culture MCQs

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Tamil Nadu Puppetry, also known as puppetry, combines the techniques of both rod and string puppetry. They were made of wood and the strings were tied to an iron ring for manipulation, which the puppeteer wore as a crown on his head.
Some puppets have arms and hands together that have been replaced with sticks. Puppet puppets are the largest, heaviest and most vocal of all traditional Indian puppets. A puppet can be up to 4.5 feet long and weigh about ten kilograms. The Bommalattam Theater has wide openings divided into four parts namely Vinayaka Puja, Komali, Amanattam and Pusenkanattam.

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The Indian Opinion was the first newspaper published by Gandhi. The newspaper was published in Gujarat, Hindi, Tamil and English, and its editor was Mansukhlal Nazar. 1904 Its publishing office was moved to Phoenix, near Durban. From the Indian perspective, Gandhi highlighted the deplorable conditions in which workers were listed. Cases of abuse were revealed. The Indian Opinion was the first newspaper published by Gandhi.

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Rignai is the traditional dress of Tripuri women native to Tripura. It is a garment worn around the waist. It is worn with “rikutu”. It covers the upper half of the body. It is worn by every Tripuri woman in Tripura.

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Umaswati’s Tattvartha-sutra (2nd-5th century AD) is an important Jain work in Sanskrit on logic, epistemology, ethics, and astronomy. Although mahavamsa, jataka, and Udana are Buddhist literature.

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In Sri Lanka, there is a ‘great scripture’ on Buddhist practice and Theravada Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa in the 5th century. This is a manual presentation and sorting of a 5th-century understanding and interpretation of the Buddhist path created by the elders of the Mahavihara Math in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
It is considered the most important Theravada text outside the Tipitaka doctrine the texts and has been described as “the center of a complete and coherent interpretation of Tipitaka”.

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Tujuk-i-Jahangiri or Tujuk-i-Jahangiri or Jahangir-nama is the autobiography of the Mughal emperor Noor-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir (1569-1627). Also known as Jahangirnama, [1] Tuzk-i-Jahangiri is written in Persian. He wrote memoirs on many stages of his life until his death in 1622. His own manuscript was wonderfully illustrated by his painters’ studio, [2] but the drawings were quickly scattered, mostly found in the Murakka (album).

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During the reign of Aurangzeb, many satirists, such as Jafar Jatali, wrote their own Kulliyats. Zafar Jatalli compiled his writings from various literary processes in Jatal-nama during the last quarter of Aurangzeb’s reign, i.e. the last quarter of the seventeenth century. It is possible that the genre was edited and updated by the poet himself or by some later poets and writers. Although some parts of the work are incorrectly attributed to the couple, it is important that the subjects covered by the poet, as well as their language and form, be of interest to people who read Urdu.

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In 1604, Arjan, the fifth Guru of the Sikhs, collected the poems of Guru Nanak, Angad, Amar Das, Ram Das and others into the most famous book for the origin of the Adi Granth in Punjabi.

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Gandharvas are presented as spirits who are musical masters, and the gandharva style looks to music primarily for pleasure, accompanied by the soma rasa. In the Vishnudharmottara Purana, the Naga king Ashvatara asks to know the swaras from Saraswati.

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The Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose or poetry literary works in any of the 22 languages of India listed in Schedule VIII of the Constitution of India. It is named after an Indian goddess of knowledge and is considered to be among the highest literary awards in India.