Art & Culture Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers

The Kailasanatha temple of Kanchi is a structural temple built of stone blocks, not a temple cut out of solid rock, so statement I is wrong.

A pendentive is the curved triangular piece in the corner of a square room that carries the round base of a dome down onto the arches below.

The Dasavatara temple at Deogarh is a Gupta building, but the Bhitargaon temple is made of brick, not dressed stone.

The Descent of the Ganga is a huge open-air rock relief carved under the Pallavas at Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram) in Tamil Nadu.

Mallikarjun Mansur (1910–1992) of Dharwad was one of the leading Khayal singers of this gharana. The Jaipur-Atrauli gharana was founded by Ustad Alladiya Khan in the late nineteenth century.

In early Buddhist art the Buddha was not shown in human form, and an empty seat stood for him seated in meditation.

Hallisaka was a circular group dance, and the Bagh painting shows women dancing in a ring around a central figure to the music of drums and cymbals.

Both ragas use all seven natural (shuddha) notes, the same scale as the Western major scale. In Hindustani music, Bilawal is one of the ten thaats in Pandit V. N. Bhatkhande's system and is taken as the basic scale, with every note in its natural form.

It is a deemed university under the Union Ministry of Culture devoted to Pali language and Buddhist studies.

Garba of Gujarat was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2023. Garba is a devotional circle dance performed around a lamp or an image of the goddess, mainly during the nine nights of Navratri.

These six ceremonial gates belong to the new Parliament House of India in New Delhi. The new Parliament building, part of the Central Vista project, was inaugurated in May 2023.

Apabhramsha was a literary language that took recognisable shape by about the sixth century, formed from regional speech mixed with the Prakrits and Sanskrit.

. Hariti was a child-eating yakshi whom the Buddha converted into a protector of children and a benevolent mother figure.

The Ajanta paintings show yakshas, gandharvas and apsaras among their figures, and their painters used multiple perspectives to show crowded scenes.

The Guntupalle Buddhist caves lie in the Eluru region of Andhra Pradesh, in the old West Godavari district. Guntupalle is one of the oldest Buddhist sites of the Andhra country, dating back to around the 2nd century BCE.

Ellora has Buddhist, Hindu and Jain caves, and the Kailasa temple was carved out of a single rock, not built of stone blocks and bricks.

Saracenic, or Indo-Islamic, architecture is built on the true arch, the vault and dome, and lime mortar, while lintel and beam belong to the older Indian style.

Malhar is the raga of the monsoon, sung to welcome and call the rains. Hindustani music links many ragas with a season or a time of day.

Vishnu Digambar Paluskar founded the first Gandharva Mahavidyalaya at Lahore on 5 May 1901. Paluskar, a Hindustani vocalist trained in the Gwalior gharana, wanted to take classical music out of the closed world of court patronage and teach it openly to ordinary students.

Erok Sim is a sowing festival of the Santhals, and Sangken is the Buddhist new-year water festival of Arunachal Pradesh.