Art & Culture Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 6

Ramanuja taught Vishishtadvaita or qualified non dualism, in which souls and matter are real but exist as attributes of Brahman.

Dignaga and Nathamuni are matched rightly while Aryadeva is not, so exactly two pairs are correct.

Bodo is the language of the Bodo people of the Brahmaputra valley and is spoken mainly in the Bodoland Territorial Region of western Assam.

The Khajuraho temples in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh were built between about 950 and 1050 CE by the Chandela rulers of Bundelkhand, among them Yashovarman, who built the Lakshmana temple, and Dhanga and Vidyadhara, under whom the large Kandariya Mahadeva temple came up.

Ustad Sultan Khan was one of the best known sarangi players of recent times.

Laxmipriya Mohapatra was an Odissi dancer from Odisha and one of the first women to perform the form on stage in its modern revival.

Vaishnavism recognises the dashavatara, the ten incarnations that Vishnu is said to take whenever order in the world breaks down.

The craftspersons of Bidar were famous for inlay work in copper and silver, and the craft took the name Bidri from the town.

Kathak, the classical dance of north India, reached its golden age in the nineteenth century under Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, who ruled from Lucknow until the British annexed his kingdom in 1856.

The Qutub Minar in Mehrauli, Delhi, rises to about 72.5 metres, which is taken as 73 metres in answer keys.

Amritlal Vegad, born in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh in 1928, was a painter and collage artist who trained at Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan under Nandalal Bose, and later taught art in Jabalpur.

Qutb-ud-din Aibak began the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque in 1192, soon after the second battle of Tarain, and the first phase was finished by about 1198, which falls in the last decade of the twelfth century.

The star-shaped shrine of Gurudwara Shri Hemkund Sahib is built with a roof shaped like an upturned lotus, a flower that also appears in the story of the site.

The shehnai is called a mangal vadya, an instrument of auspicious occasions, because it is played at weddings, temple rituals and processions.

Kelucharan Mohapatra was the guru who brought Odissi, the classical dance of Odisha, back to the stage in the twentieth century.

European sailors called the Konark Sun temple the Black Pagoda because its dark stone tower stood out on the Odisha coast and served them as a landmark, in contrast to the whitewashed Jagannath temple at Puri, which they called the White Pagoda.

India Gate was built as the All-India War Memorial to honour soldiers of the British Indian Army who died in the First World War and in the Third Anglo-Afghan War of 1919.

Halbi, Ho and Kui are languages spoken by tribal communities of central and eastern India. Halbi is an Indo-Aryan language used by the Halba tribe and as a link language among many tribes of the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh and nearby parts of Odisha and Maharashtra.

The Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple at Srirangam, on an island between the Kaveri and Kollidam rivers near Tiruchirappalli, is dedicated to Vishnu as Ranganatha reclining on the serpent Adishesha.

The Ajanta caves are cut into a horseshoe-shaped cliff above the Waghora river in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad) district of Maharashtra.