THE MAKING OF REGIONAL CULTURES

Which language was likely to be spoken in the Chera kingdom of Mahodayapuram?

• Sanskrit

• Malayalam

• Bengali

• Manipravalam

The temple theatre of Kerala borrowed stories from the ___________

The cult of the Jagannatha is located in...

• Puri, Bengal

• Bhubaneswar, Odisha

• Puri, Bihar

• Puri, Orissa

King ____________ dedicated

his kingdom to the deity and proclaimed

himself as the “deputy” of the god.

• Anantavarman

• Anangabhima III

• Krishnadevaraya

• Prithviraj

In the _________ century, the

region that constitutes most of

present-day Rajasthan, was called

Rajputana by the British.

• nineteenth

• seventeen

• eighteenth

• twelfth

Stories about Rajput heroes were recorded in

poems and songs, which were recited by specially

trained __________.

• priests

• deputy

• soldiers

• minstrels

The term kathak is derived from _________, a word used in Sanskrit and other languages for story.

• katha

• tales

• none of the above

Kathak developed in two traditions or gharanas: one in the courts of ________ and the other in _________.

• Rajasthan, Bihar

• Delhi, Punjab

• Rajasthan , Lucknow

• Uttar Pradesh, Chhatisgarh

By the late seventeenth century this region

had developed a bold and intense style of miniature

painting called ___________.

• Basohli

• Rasamanjari

• Kangra

• Vaishnavite

When in Akbar's reign _________ was the

language of administration, _________ developed as a

regional language.

• Persian and Bengali respectively

• Bengali and Persian respectively

• Malayalam and Sanskrit respectively

• None of the above