Rajasthan Mixed Quiz: Set 23

Dingal is the literary style built on Marwari, and the Charans used it for heroic verse on battle, honour and self sacrifice, sung in a loud rolling metre; the Veli Krisan Rukmani Ri of Prithviraj Rathore is a celebrated example.

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.

Lahariya takes its name from the word for a wave, and its diagonal stripes, produced by rolling the cloth and tying it before dyeing, are said to stand for the running water of the rains; safas and odhnis of this pattern are worn in Sawan and at the Teej festival…

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 correct answer is B, Prithviraj Rathore, a prince of the Bikaner house known in tradition as Peethal, who told the story of Krishna and Rukmini in Dingal verse; the poem is counted among the finest works in the language and is the one most often cited as a Dingal…

The shrine of Baba Ramdev is at Ramdevra, also called Runicha, in the Pokhran tehsil of Jaisalmer district, and the fair there is held in the month of Bhadrapad, drawing pilgrims of every community, since Ramdev is honoured as the saint of the oppressed.

Sanganer lies just south of Jaipur city and is known for its fine floral block printing on a white or cream ground, worked with delicate outlines and soft colours, and the neighbouring village of Bagru in the same district prints bolder motifs in black and red.

Ramdevra, the old Runicha, lies in Pokhran tehsil of Jaisalmer district, and the fair that begins on the second day of the bright half of Bhadrapada brings pilgrims of every caste and of both religions, many walking for days with flags.

The correct answer is A, Chand Bardai, who is remembered as the court poet of Prithviraj Chauhan and the author of the Prithviraj Raso, the long martial epic that made the Rasau form famous, although historians treat many of its details and dates with caution because the text grew by…

Followers of Jasnath, whose centres lie in the Bikaner and Churu area, perform the fire dance by stepping on and dancing over a bed of burning embers to the beat of the dhol, the dance being an act of faith at their fairs.

In dabu the printer stamps a paste of clay, gum and other material on the cloth, dyes it, and then washes off the paste to leave the covered areas undyed, and Akola is the centre with which the craft is identified, although the technique is also practised at Bagru.

The Kalbelia folk songs and dances of Rajasthan were inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010.

He served the Bundi court in the nineteenth century and wrote the Vansh Bhaskar, a long chronicle of the Hada rulers in verse, and the Veer Satsai, seven hundred couplets of martial feeling that were widely recited in the period of the revolt of 1857.

The temple of Eklingji at Kailashpuri, a short way north of Udaipur, holds a four-faced image of Shiva in black marble, and the Guhil and Sisodia rulers of Mewar treated him as the real sovereign of the state and themselves as his deputies, a claim repeated in their inscriptions.

The mother's brother arrives with clothes, ornaments and money for his sister and her children, and the occasion is treated as a binding obligation of the maternal family, celebrated with songs of its own.

The Hada ruler Rao Ratan Singh of Bundi had served the Mughals well, and in 1631 Shah Jahan recognised his son Madho Singh as the ruler of a separate state at Kota, splitting Hadauti into two.

Nainsi was the minister of Maharaja Jaswant Singh of Marwar in the seventeenth century, and besides the Nainsi Ri Khyat he compiled this district by district record of the parganas of Marwar, with details of villages, revenue and families, which is why he is called the Abul Fazl of Rajasthan…

On the night before a wedding, a naming or another household rite, the women of the family stay awake and sing songs in honour of the family deities; the word itself means keeping watch through the night.

The correct answer is B, Vijaydan Detha, often called Bijji, who spent his life at Borunda in Jodhpur district gathering the oral tales of the countryside and retelling them in Rajasthani in the many volumes of Bataan Ri Phulwari; several of his stories became well known Hindi films.

The timaniya is a broad neckpiece set with stones that is worn close to the throat, in the same family as the hansli, the aad, the mohanmala and the chandanhaar, all of them neck ornaments of Rajasthan.