Rajasthan Mixed Quiz: Set 22

The Mallinath cattle fair is held at Tilwara in Barmer district in the month of Chaitra, on the bank of the Luni, and it is the great horse fair of Rajasthan, where animals of the Malani breed are bought and sold; it is named after the folk hero Rao Mallinath.

Gogamedi lies in Nohar tehsil of Hanumangarh district, and the fair held there on Goga Navami in the month of Bhadrapada is one of the largest in northern Rajasthan, drawing both Hindu and Muslim worshippers, who call the deity Jahar Peer.

The Urs, which marks the anniversary of a saint's death, understood as his union with God, is held at Ajmer every year in the month of Rajab and draws pilgrims of every faith.

The Baneshwar fair is held in Magh at the Baneshwar temple in Dungarpur district, where the Som meets the Mahi, and because the Bhils of the region gather there in very large numbers it is called the Kumbh of the tribals; it combines the worship of Shiva with the Vaishnav…

In his Linguistic Survey of India he used the name Rajasthani in 1912 for the group of speeches of this region and classified its dialects, replacing older names such as Maru Bhasha and Maru Gurjar.

The Chari dance is performed by Gujjar women of this belt, who balance on the head a brass pot, the chari, filled with cotton seeds soaked in oil and set alight, so the dance goes on beneath a flame; it marks weddings and the birth of a son.

The borla is a small round ornament that hangs at the parting of the hair and rests at the centre of the forehead; it is a sign of a married woman and belongs above all to Marwar, where it is also called rakhdi.

Maand is the most refined style of Rajasthani singing, close enough to classical music to be treated as a raga in its own right, and Kesariya Balam Aavo Hamare Desh, made famous by Allah Jilai Bai of Bikaner, is its best known composition and effectively the state's signature song.

The Desert Festival is held at Jaisalmer in the month of Magh, in the cool season, with camel races, turban tying competitions, folk music and dance in the sands near the Sam dunes, and it is among the best known tourism events of the state.

Bundi, the Hara Chauhan capital in the Hadoti region, has so many stepwells that it is called the city of stepwells, and the finest of them is Raniji ki Baori, built in 1699 by Rani Nathavati with a high gateway and carved brackets.

Deshnoke stands on the Bikaner to Nagaur road in Bikaner district, and the temple of Karni Mata there is known across the world for the thousands of rats, called kabas, that live in it and are fed by the worshippers.

The sixth stage of the integration fell on the day the Constitution came into force: Sirohi was merged and the unit was for the first time simply named Rajasthan.

The tract formed by these two districts in the far south of Rajasthan is called Wagad, and the Bhil population there speaks Wagdi, which carries features of both Rajasthani and Gujarati because of its position on the border.

The six forts in the inscription are Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh, Ranthambore, Amer, Jaisalmer and Gagron.

The kardhani, also called tagdi, is the belt of linked metal worn round the waist by women; the corresponding ornament worn by men is the kandora.

A Ragamala is a series in which each musical mode is given a visual form, with a season, a time of day and a mood attached to it.

Born at Kudki in the Merta country of the Rathores and married to a prince of Mewar, she turned away from the life of the palace to the worship of Krishna, whom she called Giridhar Gopal, kept the company of wandering saints against the wishes of her husband's family, and…

These four districts of the south east formed the Hada Chauhan country, from which the region takes the name Hadoti and the dialect its name Hadoti or Harauti.

The name comes from the word for the lotus, which is the chief motif of the print, and the yellow ground marks an auspicious event; the garment is given to a mother after childbirth and is also worn at Teej and other festive occasions.

It is the speech of Jodhpur, Pali, Nagaur, Barmer and Jalore, that is of the largest region of the state, and the Dingal poetry of the Charan poets was composed in it; its speakers also carried it across India with the trading communities of Marwar.