Gulabi Meenakari, the pink enamel work on metal, is a traditional craft of which city?
- A.Lucknow
- B.Varanasi
- C.Moradabad
- D.Jaunpur
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Varanasi. Gulabi Meenakari is the pink enamelling of Varanasi, in which a rose-pink colour is fired into engraved silver or gold to make birds, flowers and small figures, and it survives with a handful of families in the city. It is a registered geographical indication, and it sits beside the other Varanasi GIs: the silk brocade and sarees, wooden lacquerware and toys, soft stone jali work and metal repousse craft.
Option A, Lucknow, is the home of chikankari and zardozi. Option C, Moradabad, works brass, including enamelled ware, which makes it the most tempting wrong answer, but its enamel is not the Gulabi Meenakari tradition. Option D, Jaunpur, is known for perfume and carpets. Remember that Varanasi carries more GI registrations than any other city of the state, so it is the safe guess when a rare Uttar Pradesh craft is named.
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Practice Questions
View allThe chikankari style of embroidery is traditionally associated with which city of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Varanasi
- B.Lucknow
- C.Agra
- D.Bareilly
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Chikankari is the shadow embroidery of Lucknow, worked in white thread on fine cotton, muslin or chiffon, and its stitches, tepchi, bakhiya, murri, phanda and jaali, are learnt as a set.
Read the full explanation →Which city of Uttar Pradesh is called Peetal Nagri, the brass city of India?
- A.Moradabad
- B.Firozabad
- C.Aligarh
- D.Khurja
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Moradabad has worked brass for centuries into engraved, enamelled and lacquered vessels, lamps and decorative ware, and the trade gave it the name Peetal Nagri.
Read the full explanation →Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh is famous for the manufacture of which product?
- A.Carpets
- B.Attar and perfume
- C.Glass bangles
- D.Black pottery
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Kannauj is called the perfume capital of India. Its distillers work by the deg and bhapka method, in which flower petals, herbs or sandalwood are heated in copper vessels over a wood fire and the vapour is condensed into a receiver containing sandalwood oil.
Read the full explanation →Khurja, known for its glazed pottery and holding a GI tag, lies in which district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Bulandshahr
- B.Hapur
- C.Meerut
- D.Mathura
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Khurja is a town in Bulandshahr district of western Uttar Pradesh, and its thick glazed pottery, painted in bright floral patterns on a white ground, is sold as Khurja pottery and is a registered geographical indication.
Read the full explanation →The black pottery of Nizamabad, a registered GI craft, belongs to which district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Ghazipur
- B.Azamgarh
- C.Jaunpur
- D.Mau
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Nizamabad is a town in Azamgarh district, and its potters make thin walled black pottery that is rubbed with mustard oil, fired in a closed kiln so that the smoke blackens the clay, and then decorated with silver-coloured patterns applied with a zinc and mercury paste.
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