This Haryana quiz on Haryanvi Language, Dialects and Literature puts 10 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
10 questions with answers and explanations
Haryanvi is classed as a dialect of which group of Indo-Aryan speech?
Haryanvi belongs to the Central or Western Hindi group of Indo-Aryan, which descends from Shauraseni Apabhramsha and also contains Khari Boli, Braj and Bundeli.
Read the full explanation →In the Linguistic Survey of India by George Abraham Grierson, the speech of the Haryana region is recorded under which name?
Grierson, who conducted the Linguistic Survey of India, placed the speech of the central districts of this region under Western Hindi with the name Bangaru, and that remains its standard scholarly name.
Read the full explanation →The Bagri dialect of Haryana is spoken chiefly in which districts?
Bagri is spoken in the south-western corner of the state, in Sirsa and Fatehabad and parts of Hisar, where Haryana meets Rajasthan and Punjab, and it is close enough to Rajasthani speech that it is often described as a Rajasthani dialect carried into Haryana.
Read the full explanation →The Ahirwati dialect is spoken in which part of Haryana?
Ahirwati, also called Hirwati, is the speech of the Ahirwal tract in the south of the state, which covers Rewari, Mahendragarh and parts of Gurugram.
Read the full explanation →Mewati, one of the dialects of Haryana, is spoken chiefly in which district?
Mewati is the speech of the Mewat tract, which centres on Nuh district and extends into parts of Palwal and Faridabad and across the border into Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →Punjabi was made the second official language of Haryana in which year?
Hindi is the official language of Haryana, settled by the Haryana Official Language Act of 1969, and an amendment to that law in 2010 gave Punjabi the position of second official language of the state.
Read the full explanation →Which poet is called the Surya Kavi and the Shakespeare of Haryana?
Pandit Lakhmi Chand is the greatest of the Saang poets of Haryana, and his raginis are still sung across the state.
Read the full explanation →By one tradition, the poet Surdas was born at Sihi village, which lies in which district of Haryana?
One tradition places the birth of the Braj poet Surdas at Sihi, a village in Faridabad district, and Haryana claims him on that ground; other accounts place his birth at Runakta near Agra, so the question is always set as a tradition rather than as a settled fact.
Read the full explanation →Sant Garib Das, who founded the Garibdasi sect, belonged to which village of Haryana?
Sant Garib Das of Chhudani, in the present Jhajjar district, founded the Garibdasi sect in the eighteenth century and left a very large body of devotional verse, collected as the Sat Granth, which is still recited by his followers.
Read the full explanation →Awara Masiha, the biography of Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, was written by which writer associated with Haryana?
Vishnu Prabhakar, who spent many years at Hisar and is counted among the writers of Haryana, wrote Awara Masiha, a biography of the Bengali novelist Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay built on years of travel and research, and it is the work for which he is best remembered.
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