Who among the following is considered to be the originator of the khayal and tarana styles of Hindustani Classical Music?
Answer: C
Amir Khusro is credited with them.
The thirteenth-century poet and musician at the Delhi sultanate court is traditionally held to have originated the khayal and the tarana, and to have devised the sitar and the tabla - though the evidence for each attribution is thin.
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Who among the following Arab scholars studied Sanskrit and astronomy for a decade at Varanasi ?
Answer: A
It was Alberuni.
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni came to India with Mahmud of Ghazni's campaigns, learned Sanskrit and spent years studying Indian astronomy, mathematics and philosophy. His Kitab-ul-Hind is the most careful foreign account of India before the modern period.
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Who among the following had written the Novel “Pather Panchali”, which was base of the film of same name by Satyajeet Ray?
Answer: B
It was Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay.
His novel of 1929 follows the boy Apu in a Bengal village. Satyajit Ray, who had illustrated an edition of it, filmed it in 1955 as the first part of the Apu trilogy.
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Kallol was the name of one of the most influential movements in which among the following literatures?
Answer: B
It belongs to Bengali literature.
Kallol, a magazine founded in 1923, gave its name to a movement that broke with the Tagorean manner and turned to the lives of the poor and the disillusion after the First World War.
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Which among the following Sikh Guru declared that Guru Granth Sahib will be the holy scripture of Sikkhism and will be the permanent Guru of Sikhs?
Answer: A
Guru Gobind Singh declared it.
Before his death at Nanded in 1708 the tenth Guru ended the line of human Gurus and installed the Adi Granth as Guru Granth Sahib, the perpetual Guru of the Sikhs.
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The famous Muslim pilgrimage town “Galiakot” is located in which among the following states of India?
Answer: C
It is in Rajasthan.
Galiakot in Dungarpur district holds the shrine of Syedi Fakhruddin Shaheed and is a pilgrimage centre for the Dawoodi Bohra community, drawing large numbers at the annual urs.
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The Varaha cave temple at Mamallapuram was built by
Answer: A
It is attributed to Simhavishnu.
The Varaha cave temple at Mamallapuram, cut in the seventh century, holds panels of Vishnu as the boar lifting the earth and of Gajalakshmi, and portrait sculptures of the Pallava kings.
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Which of the following religions “Tower of Silence ” is related to in India?
Answer: A
It relates to the Zoroastrians.
The dakhma is where Parsis expose their dead to vultures, since a corpse must not defile earth, fire or water. The practice has become difficult since Indian vulture numbers collapsed in the 1990s.
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Which state of India is associated with the Folk Dance Teratali?
Answer: B
Terah Taali belongs to Rajasthan.
Women of the Kamad community perform it seated, striking thirteen small brass cymbals tied to their limbs, in devotion to the folk deity Ramdev.
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The first novel written by Sunil Gangopadhyay is :
Answer: A
It was Atmaprakash.
Sunil Gangopadhyay's first novel, published in 1966, was a study of restless youth in post-Partition Calcutta. Sei Samay, Pratham Alo and Purba Paschim are the later historical trilogy for which he is better known.
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