Baba Alauddin Khan, the sarod master who taught Ravi Shankar, belonged to which gharana named after a town of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Maihar gharana
- B.Gwalior gharana
- C.Indore gharana
- D.Kirana gharana
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, the Maihar gharana. Baba Alauddin Khan spent the greater part of his life as court musician at Maihar in the east of the state and gave his name to the Maihar gharana of instrumental music. He taught his daughter Annapurna Devi, his son Ali Akbar Khan and his pupil Ravi Shankar, and he founded the Maihar band, an orchestra of orphan boys playing Indian instruments together.
Option B, the Gwalior gharana, is the oldest gharana of khayal singing and belongs to the state but is a vocal tradition. Option C, the Indore gharana, is also of the state and is associated with Ustad Amir Khan, again in khayal. Option D, the Kirana gharana, takes its name from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh and so does not belong to Madhya Pradesh at all. Maihar is the one tied to Alauddin Khan and the sarod.
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Practice Questions
View allTansen, counted among the navratna of Akbar's court, was born at Behat near which city?
- A.Ujjain
- B.Gwalior
- C.Indore
- D.Bhopal
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Tansen was born Ramtanu Pandey in the village of Behat near Gwalior, learnt from Swami Haridas of Vrindavan and from the Sufi Muhammad Ghaus of Gwalior, served the court of Rewa and was then taken by Akbar into his own court, where he was counted among the nine jewels.
Read the full explanation →The Tansen Samaroh, the state's best known music festival, is held every year at
- A.Khajuraho
- B.Behat and Gwalior
- C.Ujjain
- D.Maihar
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The Tansen Samaroh is held in the winter at the musician's birthplace of Behat and at his tomb in Gwalior, and the National Tansen Samman for Hindustani classical music is conferred during it.
Read the full explanation →In the reign of which ruler of Gwalior was the music treatise Man Kutuhal compiled?
- A.Raja Man Singh Tomar
- B.Raja Bhoj
- C.Vikramaditya
- D.Jai Singh
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Man Singh Tomar ruled Gwalior at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century and was the great patron of dhrupad, drawing singers to his court and encouraging composition in the spoken language rather than in Sanskrit alone.
Read the full explanation →The Matki dance, performed by women with an earthen pot balanced on the head, belongs to which region?
- A.Bundelkhand
- B.Malwa
- C.Baghelkhand
- D.Mahakoshal
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Matki is danced by the women of Malwa and the adjoining Nimar at weddings and other family celebrations, with an earthen pot held on the head while the dancer turns to the beat of the dhol.
Read the full explanation →The Rai dance, performed by a Bedni dancer to the nagariya drum, belongs to which region of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Malwa
- B.Bundelkhand
- C.Nimar
- D.Jhabua
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Rai is the signature dance of Bundelkhand in the north-east of the state, danced by a woman of the Bedni community who whirls to an accelerating beat of the nagariya and the mridang while the audience calls for more.
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