Firaq Gorakhpuri, the first Urdu writer to receive the Jnanpith Award, was honoured in 1969 for which collection?
- A.Gul-e-Naghma
- B.Soz-e-Watan
- C.Shekhar: Ek Jivani
- D.Raag Darbari
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Gul-e-Naghma. Firaq Gorakhpuri, whose real name was Raghupati Sahay, was born at Gorakhpur in 1896 and received the Jnanpith Award in 1969 for the Urdu collection Gul-e-Naghma, becoming the first Urdu writer to win the prize. His ghazals and rubais drew on Indian imagery and he also taught English literature at Allahabad University.
Option B, Soz-e-Watan, is the Urdu story collection of Premchand, banned by the colonial government in 1910. Option C, Shekhar: Ek Jivani, is the novel of Agyeya, who won the Jnanpith in 1978 for Kitni Navon Mein Kitni Baar. Option D, Raag Darbari, is the satirical novel of Shrilal Shukla of Lucknow district, who shared the Jnanpith of 2009 with Amarkant of Ballia. A paper may ask for the first Urdu Jnanpith winner rather than the book, so hold the two facts together.
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Practice Questions
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- A.Punjabi
- B.Urdu
- C.Bhojpuri
- D.Sanskrit
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Hindi in the Devanagari script is the official language of Uttar Pradesh under the Uttar Pradesh Official Language Act, 1951, and an amendment passed in 1989 added Urdu as the second official language of the state.
Read the full explanation →The Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas is composed in which dialect?
- A.Braj Bhasha
- B.Awadhi
- C.Bundeli
- D.Khari Boli
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Tulsidas wrote the Ramcharitmanas in Awadhi, the Eastern Hindi speech of the Awadh region around Ayodhya, and began the work at Ayodhya in 1574.
Read the full explanation →The Awadhi Sufi romance Padmavat was written by which poet of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Kabir
- B.Malik Muhammad Jayasi
- C.Raskhan
- D.Ghananand
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Jayasi belonged to Jais in the present Amethi district and completed the Padmavat in 1540.
Read the full explanation →Braj Bhasha is chiefly spoken in which part of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Purvanchal around Varanasi and Gorakhpur
- B.The Mathura, Agra and Aligarh region
- C.Bundelkhand around Jhansi
- D.Awadh around Lucknow
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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.
Read the full explanation →Bhojpuri, spoken in eastern Uttar Pradesh, is classed under which group of Indo-Aryan speech?
- A.Western Hindi
- B.Eastern Hindi
- C.Bihari group
- D.Pahari group
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Bhojpuri descends from Magadhi Apabhramsha and is grouped with Magahi and Maithili in the Bihari group of the Eastern Indo-Aryan family, a classification made by George Abraham Grierson in the Linguistic Survey of India.
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