Who among the following established the Ved Samaj in Madras in 1864?
Answer: A
It was Keshab Chandra Sen.
The Veda Samaj was founded at Madras in 1864 under his influence, on the model of the Brahmo Samaj, and worked against caste and idol worship. It was renamed the Southern India Brahmo Samaj in 1871.
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Kishangarh School of Rajasthan is famous for which of the following ?
Answer: A
It is famous for painting.
The Kishangarh school of the eighteenth century is known for the Bani Thani - a female profile with an arched brow, long half-closed eye and pointed chin - painted under Raja Sawant Singh, who wrote devotional verse as Nagari Das.
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Which is the oldest of the following Indian languages still in everyday use?
Answer: D
Tamil is the oldest still in everyday use.
Its earliest inscriptions date from about the third century BC and the Sangam literature from the early centuries AD, and the language has been in continuous literary and spoken use since. Sanskrit is older still in its Vedic form but is no longer a community's mother tongue.
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Which of the following prizes is given by KK Birla Foundation for commendable work in Hindi?
Answer: B
It is the Vyas Samman.
Instituted by the K.K. Birla Foundation in 1991, it honours an outstanding literary work in Hindi published in the previous ten years. The Saraswati Samman, from the same foundation, covers all the Eighth Schedule languages.
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Santhara is a religious ritual related to ___?
Answer: A
It is a Jain ritual.
Santhara, or sallekhana, is the voluntary fast to death undertaken when a Jain judges that the body can no longer serve religious life. The Rajasthan High Court held it illegal in 2015, and the Supreme Court stayed that order.
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Lohri is celebrated in the month of
Answer: D
It falls in January.
Lohri is kept on 13 January, the eve of Makar Sankranti, at the end of the Punjabi winter. Bonfires are lit and sesame, jaggery and popcorn thrown into the flames as the rabi crop is celebrated.
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Thillana is a format of
Answer: C
It belongs to Bharatanatyam.
The tillana comes at the end of a Bharatanatyam recital - a fast, largely rhythmic piece built on syllabic patterns with sculpturesque poses and little narrative content, corresponding to the tarana in Hindustani music.
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” Shesher Kabita” is the reknowned work of which among the following legends?
Answer: A
It is Rabindranath Tagore's.
Shesher Kabita, 'The Last Poem', appeared in 1929, a novel of two lovers who part while still in love, and is notable for the way Tagore has his characters criticise his own poetry within it.
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In which among the following sacrifices, the sacrificial materials used was sura in Vedic Era?
Answer: C
It was the Sautramani.
The rite used sura, a fermented liquor, in offerings to the Ashvins, Sarasvati and Indra, and was performed as a purification after excessive soma drinking or to restore a deposed king.
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In which century, the Rajatarangini of Kalhana was composed?
Answer: C
It was composed in the 12th century.
Kalhana wrote the Rajatarangini in Kashmir about 1148, a verse chronicle of its kings. It is the earliest Indian work that can properly be called history, weighing its sources and criticising rulers freely.
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