Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 17

The traditional dress of a Haryanvi woman is made of three pieces: the daaman, a long gathered skirt, the kurti or angi, a short upper garment, and the chunder or odhni, the long veil drawn over the head and shoulder.

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.

Jyotisar lies a few kilometres from Kurukshetra town, and tradition identifies it as the spot on the battlefield where Krishna gave the Gita sermon to Arjuna.

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.

Pajeb is the anklet of the Haryanvi woman, worn with the kade on the ankles and the bichhua on the toes, and it was traditionally made of silver rather than gold because silver was within reach of a farming household.

Babur had the Kabuli Bagh mosque raised at Panipat to mark his victory over Ibrahim Lodi in the first battle of Panipat in 1526, and tradition says it was named after his queen Mussammat Kabuli Begum.

He raised the Kabuli Bagh mosque and the garden around it at Panipat to mark his victory in the first battle of Panipat in 1526, in which Ibrahim Lodi, the last Lodi sultan, was killed.

Gita Jayanti falls on the Ekadashi of the bright half of Margashirsha, the day called Mokshada Ekadashi, which is held to be the day the Bhagavad Gita was spoken at Kurukshetra; the state keeps it as the International Gita Mahotsav.

Karewa, also called chadar dalna or chadar andazi from the sheet placed over the woman as the token of the new marriage, was practised widely in rural Haryana and is recorded in the colonial settlement reports of the region.

Letters recovered after the fall of Delhi showed that the two men of Hansi had written to the Mughal court in support of the revolt, and they were tried and hanged there in January 1858, their property confiscated.

Pinjore lies on the Shivalik slope in Panchkula district, and the garden there is a Mughal charbagh laid out in descending terraces by Nawab Fidai Khan, the foster brother of Aurangzeb.

Babur had the Kabuli Bagh mosque and garden laid out at Panipat after the first battle of Panipat in 1526, and the building is named after his wife Kabuli Begum.

Bhaat is the gift of clothes, ornaments, cash and sweets that the mama brings at the marriage of his sister's son or daughter, and the ceremony of bringing it, bhaat bharna, is an event of its own, in which the family of the maternal uncle is received and honoured by…

The Satnamis were a sect of peasants and artisans of the Narnaul and Mewat country who rose in 1672 after a quarrel with a Mughal foot soldier grew into a general rising.

It is the one place in Haryana developed as a hill station, and the twin Tikkar Taal lakes lie below it.

The new state began with Ambala, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jind, Karnal, Mahendragarh and Rohtak, spread over 44,212 square kilometres.

Ghevar, the disc of fried batter soaked in syrup, is the sweet of the Hariyali Teej of Sawan, when swings are hung from the trees, a married daughter receives new clothes and sweets from her parents, and the women of the household sing Teej songs.

Adi Badri lies in the Shivalik foothills of Yamunanagar district, and tradition treats it as the point where the Saraswati emerges, which is why the state has taken up work on the river and on a reservoir there.

Panipat is the textile town of Haryana and the best known centre for the khes, the thick double woven cotton wrap used as a shawl and a bedcover, as well as for the panja durrie woven on the pit loom and for a large trade in furnishings.

The tomb of Sheikh Chilli, the Sufi teacher associated with the Mughal prince Dara Shikoh, stands on a high terrace at Thanesar, with a dome of white marble and a madrasa court beside it.