This Madhya Pradesh quiz on Language, Dialects and Literature of MP 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
The Nimadi dialect is spoken in which region of Madhya Pradesh?
Nimadi takes its name from Nimar, the country lying south of the Vindhyas in the Narmada valley, and it is spoken in Khargone, Khandwa, Barwani and Burhanpur.
Read the full explanation →Which dialect of Madhya Pradesh is spoken in Rewa, Satna, Sidhi and Shahdol?
Rewa was the capital of the Baghel Rajput house that gave the region its name, and the dialect shades into Awadhi towards Uttar Pradesh and into Chhattisgarhi towards the south east, which is exactly why Grierson classified it as Eastern Hindi.
Read the full explanation →The Gondi language of Madhya Pradesh belongs to which language family?
Gondi is the language of the Gond people, the largest tribal community of central India, spread over the Satpura and Mahakoshal belt of Madhya Pradesh and into the neighbouring states.
Read the full explanation →In the Linguistic Survey of India, Grierson classified Bagheli under which group?
Grierson grouped Awadhi, Bagheli and Chhattisgarhi together as Eastern Hindi, because all three descend from the same Ardhamagadhi line and share features that set them apart from the dialects further west.
Read the full explanation →Keshavdas, the author of Ramchandrika, was a poet of which court?
Keshavdas lived at the Bundela court of Orchha on the Betwa, and he is treated as the acharya who opened the riti era of Hindi poetry, in which the rules of poetics mattered as much as the feeling.
Read the full explanation →Which poet is remembered for the chaukadiya fag songs of Bundeli?
Isuri composed in Bundeli in the four line form called chaukadiya, sung above all in the fag songs of the Holi season, and his verses on love and separation are still sung across Bundelkhand.
Read the full explanation →Who received the first Sahitya Akademi Award given in Hindi?
Born at Babai in the present Narmadapuram district, he was a poet of the freedom movement as well as an editor, and he is widely remembered for Pushp ki Abhilasha, in which a flower asks not to be offered to a deity but to be strewn on the path along…
Read the full explanation →The well known Hindi poem Satpura ke Ghane Jungle was written by whom?
Born at Tigaria in the Narmadapuram country, he wrote Satpura ke Ghane Jungle, a poem whose slow repeated lines imitate the drowsy depth of the Satpura forest, and it is among the best known descriptive poems in modern Hindi.
Read the full explanation →The Iqbal Samman of the Madhya Pradesh government is given for creative writing in which language?
The Iqbal Samman is one of the national awards run by the culture department of Madhya Pradesh, and it honours creative and critical writing in Urdu.
Read the full explanation →The Bundeli ballad cycle Alha Khand, on the warriors Alha and Udal, is credited to which poet?
Jagnik was the bard of Mahoba who is credited with composing the ballad cycle on Alha and Udal, the two warrior brothers who served the Chandela ruler Parmal and fought Prithviraj Chauhan.
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