Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 15

Haryana came into being on 1 November 1966, when the Punjab Reorganisation Act carved it out of the former state of Punjab, and the day is kept across the districts as Haryana Day with cultural programmes and state awards.

He founded the town in 1354 and called it Hisar-e-Firoza, the fort of Firoz, and built a palace complex there that still holds the Gujari Mahal and the Lat ki Masjid, a mosque that reuses an older pillar shaft.

Pandit Deepchand is the first great name in the history of Saang and is credited with turning a loose village entertainment into a sung play with a structure: an opening invocation, a story carried in verse, prose passages between the songs and a troupe built around the poet.

The Surajkund mela was started in 1987 as a crafts fair of the state, and it has been held every February since, bringing craftspeople and folk performers from across the country to the grounds at Surajkund.

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.

In 1858 the government took the Delhi territory out of the North-Western Provinces and attached it to Punjab, partly as a punishment for the region's part in the revolt and partly because Punjab's administration had stayed loyal and effective.

The math at Asthal Bohar on the edge of Rohtak holds the fair of Baba Mastnath, a Nath sant of the region, and it is the best known fair of that district.

The Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao sent his cousin Sadashivrao Bhau north in command, with the Peshwa's son Vishwasrao as the nominal head of the expedition.

Lakhmi Chand is the best known Saang poet of Haryana, honoured as the Surya Kavi or sun poet and commonly called the Shakespeare of Haryana for the range of his plays and the quality of his raginis.

George Thomas, a sailor from Ireland who rose in the service of Indian rulers, carved out a principality for himself in the Haryana plain towards the end of the eighteenth century and chose Hansi, with its old fort, as his capital.

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.

He belonged to the Congress and was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of Haryana on 1 November 1966, the day the state came into being, heading a ministry formed from the Punjab legislators of the Haryana region.

Dhamal is counted the oldest dance of Haryana and belongs mainly to the Mahendragarh and Jhajjar belt, where the men of the village gather on the open ground on a full moon night of the Phalgun season, form a wide circle and dance to the beat of the dhamal drum…

Faridabad was the most populous district of Haryana in 2011 and also the district with the highest density of population.

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.

The Manusmriti describes Brahmavarta as the holy land created by the gods between the Saraswati and the Drishadvati, and that strip of country is the plain of present-day Haryana.

Loor belongs to the sandy Bagar country of the south-west of the state, around Bhiwani and Mahendragarh, and is danced by women and girls in the month of Phalgun and at Holi, when the spring crop is standing.

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.

Khoria is danced by the women of the household among themselves once the men have set out with the wedding procession.

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.