Art & Culture Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 13

The Qutub Minar came first, then Tughlaqabad Fort, then the Bada Gumbad of the Lodi period and last the Mughal city of Fatehpur Sikri.

Nagara temples belong to north India, but their shikhara is curvilinear, not pyramidal. The Nagara style spread over the land between the Himalayas and the Vindhyas, from Gujarat and Rajasthan to Odisha.

Teejan Bai of Chhattisgarh is the best-known exponent of Pandavani, a folk ballad form that tells stories from the Mahabharata.

Of the three, only Arasavalli is known for a Sun temple. Arasavalli, near Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh, has the Suryanarayana Swamy temple, one of the few living Sun temples in India; it is said to date back to the Eastern Ganga kings, and on certain days the morning rays fall…

Only the first pair is correct: Chaliha Sahib is a festival of the Sindhi community. During Chaliha, Sindhis observe forty days of fasting and prayer, usually in July and August, in honour of Jhulelal, the patron deity of Sindhis, ending with thanksgiving at a river or other water body.

Sautrantika and Sammitiya were schools of Buddhism, not Jainism, while the Sarvastivada view is correctly stated. After the Buddha's death the Buddhist order split into several early schools, traditionally counted as eighteen.

The tomb in Mehrauli, Delhi, built in the late 13th century, has the earliest surviving true arch in India. A true arch is built from wedge-shaped stones (voussoirs) held in place by a keystone at the top, so it spreads weight sideways.

Sudarsan Pattnaik is a sand artist from Puri, Odisha, known for large sculptures on the beach that carry social messages.

Sankirtana combines singing, drumming and dance to tell the life and deeds of Krishna, but cymbals are not its only instruments.

Both temples belong to the Gurjara-Pratihara style, the western Indian form of the Nagara tradition that grew under Pratihara rule between the eighth and the eleventh centuries.

The Nyaya Sutra was composed by the sage Gautama, also called Akshapada Gautama, who founded the Nyaya school of Indian philosophy.

The Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020 gives the union territory five official languages: Kashmiri, Dogri, Urdu, Hindi and English.

Mughal painting reached its peak under Jahangir, who ruled from 1605 to 1627.

Gopal, Udai, Hukma and Jiwan were court painters of the Amber-Jaipur school, which grew first in the ateliers of Amber and then in the new capital after Sawai Jai Singh II founded Jaipur in 1727.

The Jama Masjid of Delhi, whose formal name is Masjid-i-Jahan-Numa, was built by Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656 as the congregational mosque of his new capital Shahjahanabad.

The Bodhisattva Padmapani, holding a blue lotus, is painted on the left wall of the antechamber of Cave 1 at Ajanta in Maharashtra, with the Bodhisattva Vajrapani facing him.

These four are the classical Lokapalas, each guarding one of the four main directions of the world. In Hindu tradition, as described in texts such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and in later iconography, Indra guards the east, Yama the south, Varuna the west and Kubera the north.

In ancient India the Magadhas were professional bards. Along with the Sutas, they memorised and recited genealogies of kings, dynastic histories and heroic tales, and sang the praises of rulers at court and on ceremonial occasions.

Ajanta and Mahabalipuram both have monuments cut out of living rock, but they were made in different periods and for different faiths.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in 1969 for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema and is named after Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made the first Indian feature film, Raja Harishchandra, in 1913 and is called the father of Indian cinema; the first recipient was the actress Devika Rani.