Braj Bhasha is chiefly spoken in which part of Uttar Pradesh?

The correct answer is B, the Mathura, Agra and Aligarh region. Braj Bhasha is the speech of the Braj tract, which covers Mathura, Agra, Aligarh, Hathras and Etah, and it belongs to the Western Hindi group that descends from Shauraseni Apabhramsha. It was the chief literary language of north India from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century and carries the poetry of Surdas and the Ashtachhap.

Option A, Purvanchal, is the Bhojpuri belt of Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Ballia and Azamgarh, and Bhojpuri is classed with the Bihari group, not with Western Hindi. Option C, Bundelkhand, speaks Bundeli, another Western Hindi dialect but of the Jhansi, Jalaun, Hamirpur and Banda tract. Option D, Awadh, speaks Awadhi, which belongs to the Eastern Hindi group. State papers like to give a district and ask for its dialect, so memorise the table of dialect and districts rather than the names alone.