Rajasthan Mixed Quiz: Set 18

Nathdwara, which means the gate of the Lord, lies in Rajsamand district on the Banas river, and the image of Krishna as Shrinathji, brought from Vrindavan, was installed there in 1672 in the reign of Maharana Raj Singh I; the town is also the home of the Pichhwai paintings made…

Mount Abu, the only hill station of Rajasthan and the highest point of the Aravalli range, lies in Sirohi district, and the five marble temples of Dilwara stand on its slope.

A Phad is a long horizontal cloth on which the whole life story of a folk deity, most often Pabuji or Devnarayan, is laid out in episodes, and it is not simply hung for display: a Bhopa priest-singer carries it from village to village, unrolls it at night and sings…

Bani Thani is the best known single work of the Kishangarh sub-style of the Marwar school, painted in the middle of the eighteenth century, and the art historian Eric Dickinson called it the Indian Mona Lisa.

Jaswant Thada stands just below the Mehrangarh fort at Jodhpur and was raised in 1899 in memory of Maharaja Jaswant Singh II; it is built of thin sheets of white marble that glow when the sun falls on them, and it serves as the cremation ground of the later Rathore…

Gokul Bhai Bhatt founded the Sirohi Praja Mandal in 1939, lived the plain Gandhian life of khadi and constructive work, and is therefore called the Gandhi of Rajasthan.

Usta art, also called Munawwat or gold manoti work, is a craft in which a raised design is built up and then gilded, traditionally on camel hide but also on leather objects, wood and the walls and ceilings of palaces.

Kumbhalgarh, in Rajsamand district, was built in the fifteenth century by Rana Kumbha with the architect Mandan, and the rampart that winds along the Aravalli ridges around it runs for about 36 km, which is why it is so often compared with the Great Wall of China.

The Patwon ki Haveli is a cluster of five mansions in the yellow sandstone of Jaisalmer, begun in 1805 by the Jain banker Guman Chand Patwa for his sons, and famous for its carved balconies and jali screens; the Salim Singh ki Haveli and the Nathmal ji ki Haveli stand…

Amar Singh I, the son and successor of Maharana Pratap, fought Mughal columns for years before accepting terms in 1615 in Jahangir's reign.

From the eighteenth century the merchant families of Shekhawati, in the Jhunjhunu, Sikar and Churu districts, built large courtyard houses and had their outer and inner walls covered with painted plaster.

Bijolia was a first-class thikana of Mewar and its village lies in Bhilwara district today. The movement of its mostly Dhakar cultivators against some eighty-four kinds of lag-bag ran from 1897 to 1941 and is counted the longest-running peasant movement in India.

The Hawa Mahal, the five-storeyed screen of pink sandstone on the edge of the City Palace, was built in 1799 for Sawai Pratap Singh to a design by Lal Chand Ustad, and its many latticed windows let the women of the household watch the processions in the street without being…

Mangala was found in 2004 in the Barmer Sanchor basin and was the largest onshore oil discovery ever made in the country; with the neighbouring Bhagyam and Aishwariya fields it turned Rajasthan into a crude oil producing state.

The Dhundhar school covers the painting of the Amber and Jaipur region and includes Alwar, Shekhawati and Uniara among its sub-styles.

The potters of Molela, a village in Rajsamand district, make flat clay plaques in low relief showing Dharmaraj, Devnarayan, Nagaraja and other folk gods, which pilgrims from the tribal districts of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh carry home to their shrines; Molela clay work carries a geographical indication tag.

Osian, about sixty kilometres north of Jodhpur, has a group of more than a dozen Brahmanical and Jain temples built in sandstone between the eighth and the twelfth century, among them the Sachiya Mata temple and the Mahavira temple, and the richness of its sculpture has earned it the name…

The Garasia are the third largest tribe of Rajasthan and live on the southern slopes of the Aravalli, in the Abu Road and Pindwara tracts of Sirohi and in Kotra and Jhadol in Udaipur, with some in Pali.

The palace maintained a painting workshop, and Sahibdin was its leading hand.

A Kavad is a small shrine made of mango wood, painted a deep red and covered with figures of gods and heroes, and fitted with several hinged panels.