Pithora wall painting is made by which community of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Gond and Pardhan
- B.Bhil and Bhilala
- C.Baiga and Bharia
- D.Sahariya and Kol
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Bhil and Bhilala. Pithora is the ritual wall painting of the Bhil and Bhilala people of Jhabua, Alirajpur and Dhar in the west of the state. It is painted on the inner wall of the house when a vow is fulfilled, the badva priest directs the work and the painter is called the lakhara; the surface is filled with horses that carry the gods, with Pithora Dev at the centre.
Option A, Gond and Pardhan, are the people of the Gond painting or Jangarh Kalam of Dindori and Mandla. Option C, Baiga and Bharia, are two of the three particularly vulnerable tribal groups of the state, known for Godna tattoo art and for the Patalkot valley respectively. Option D, Sahariya and Kol, live in Sheopur and Shivpuri and in the Vindhya districts. Note the vocabulary of the form, badva and lakhara, because a question may ask who paints a Pithora.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Jangarh Kalam style of Gond painting was created by which artist?
- A.Bhuri Bai
- B.Jangarh Singh Shyam
- C.Bhajju Shyam
- D.Jodhaiya Bai Baiga
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A Pardhan Gond of Patangarh village in Dindori district, he was brought to Bhopal in the early nineteen eighties for Roopankar, the gallery of Bharat Bhavan, and turned the Digna wall patterns and the songs of Bada Dev into paintings on paper and canvas.
Read the full explanation →Jangarh Singh Shyam belonged to Patangarh village of which district of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Jhabua
- B.Dindori
- C.Umaria
- D.Chhindwara
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Patangarh, the village of Jangarh Singh Shyam and of many Gond painters after him, lies in Dindori district in the eastern, forested part of the state, in the Gond country that also covers Mandla.
Read the full explanation →Which institution at Bhopal, opened in 1982, holds the Roopankar gallery that first showed tribal painting as art?
- A.Bharat Bhavan
- B.Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya
- C.Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum
- D.Birla Museum
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Bharat Bhavan opened at Bhopal in 1982 in a building designed by the architect Charles Correa, and its art gallery Roopankar, shaped by the painter Jagdish Swaminathan, placed the work of village and tribal artists beside modern Indian painting.
Read the full explanation →Bhuri Bai, who received the Padma Shri in 2021, belongs to which tribe of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Gond
- B.Bhil
- C.Baiga
- D.Korku
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Bhuri Bai of Pitol village in Jhabua district is a Bhil artist who began as a wage worker at the Bharat Bhavan site, was encouraged to paint on paper by Jagdish Swaminathan and became the first Bhil artist to carry Pithora forms on to paper and canvas.
Read the full explanation →Which three communities are the particularly vulnerable tribal groups of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Bhil, Gond and Korku
- B.Baiga, Bharia and Sahariya
- C.Kol, Korku and Bhilala
- D.Gond, Pardhan and Agariya
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These three are notified as particularly vulnerable tribal groups in Madhya Pradesh, a category earlier called primitive tribal groups and defined by a pre-agricultural level of technology, very low literacy, a small and stagnant population and a forest based life.
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