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  • Question 1
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    __________ was the last Nawab of Awadh.
    Solution
    Wajid Ali Shah was the last Nawab of Awadh. Under his patronage Kathak grew into a major art form. Kathak is a form of dance associated with North India and derives its name from the Sanskrit word Katha which means a story. The other names mentioned in the options were the earlier Nawabs of Awadh.
  • Question 2
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    Kathak began evolving in the ___ and ____ centuries.
    Solution
    Kathak is a dance form associated with North India. Kathak began evolving into a distinct mode of dance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with the spread of the bhakti movement. The legends of Radha-Krishna were enacted in folk plays called rasa lila, which combined folk dance with the basic gestures of the kathak story-tellers.
  • Question 3
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    Which of the following classical dances developed in East India?
  • Question 4
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    Under the _______ and their nobles, Kathak was performed in the court, where it acquired its present features.
    Solution
    Kathak is a dance form associated with North India. Under the Mughal emperors and their nobles, Kathak was performed in the court, where it acquired its present features and developed into a form of dance with a distinctive style. Subsequently, it developed in two traditions or gharanas : one in the courts of Rajasthan (Jaipur) and the other in Lucknow.
  • Question 5
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    Which of the following classical dances developed in North East India?
  • Question 6
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    By the third quarter of 19th century, kathak spread to which of the following areas?
    Solution
    Kathak is a dance form originated in north india. By the third quarter of the nineteenth century it was firmly entrenched as a dance form not only in Jaipur and Lucknow, but in the adjoining areas of present-day Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.
  • Question 7
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    Which of the following classical dances developed in Andhra Pradesh?
  • Question 8
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    Under the patronage of _______ Kathak grew into a major art form.
    Solution
    Kathak is a dance form associated with north India. Under the Mughal emperors and their nobles, Kathak was performed in the court, where it acquired its present features and developed into a form of dance with a distinctive style. Under the patronage of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, it grew into a major art form.
  • Question 9
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    The first literary works in Malayalam are dated to the  _______________.
    Solution
    The Cheras drew upon Sanskritic traditions. The first literary works in Malayalam, dated to about the twelfth century, are directly indebted to Sanskrit.
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    Some of the most beautiful miniatures in western India were used to illustrate _______ texts.
    Solution
    Miniatures (as their very name suggests) are small-sized paintings, generally done in water colour on cloth or paper. The earliest miniatures were on palm leaves or wood. Some of the most beautiful of these, found in western India, were used to illustrate Jaina texts.
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