Sanjhi, made by girls in Haryana during Navratri, is best described as what?
- A.A swing hung from a tree
- B.An image of the goddess shaped on the courtyard wall
- C.A wedding song sung by women
- D.A sweet made of jaggery
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, an image of the goddess shaped on the courtyard wall. During the nine nights of Navratri the unmarried girls of a Haryanvi household shape Sanjhi, a figure of the goddess, in clay and cow dung on the wall of the courtyard or the entrance, decorate her with mirrors, bangles and colour, sing to her every evening and at the end of the festival take her to a pond or well with a procession.
Option A describes the swings of Teej in the month of Sawan. Option C is wrong because the women's wedding songs of the region are mangal geet and ban songs, not Sanjhi. Option D is wrong because Sanjhi is not a food at all. The habit of making figures and patterns on the house wall also explains the painted and moulded decoration that village women of this tract do at festivals, so the two can be asked together.
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Practice Questions
View allThe daaman, kurti and chunder together form the traditional dress of whom in Haryana?
- A.Women
- B.Men
- C.Priests at a temple
- D.Saang performers only
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Read the full explanation →The ornament called pajeb is worn on which part of the body?
- A.The neck
- B.The ankle
- C.The waist
- D.The forehead
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Pajeb is the anklet of the Haryanvi woman, worn with the kade on the ankles and the bichhua on the toes, and it was traditionally made of silver rather than gold because silver was within reach of a farming household.
Read the full explanation →In Haryanvi social custom, karewa refers to which practice?
- A.The gift brought by the maternal uncle at a wedding
- B.The remarriage of a widow to the younger brother of her dead husband
- C.The worship of the village well after a birth
- D.The gathering on the thirteenth day after a death
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Read the full explanation →In a Haryanvi wedding, the bhaat is the gift brought by which relative?
- A.The father of the bride
- B.The mother's brother, that is the maternal uncle
- C.The father's sister
- D.The elder brother of the groom
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Bhaat is the gift of clothes, ornaments, cash and sweets that the mama brings at the marriage of his sister's son or daughter, and the ceremony of bringing it, bhaat bharna, is an event of its own, in which the family of the maternal uncle is received and honoured by…
Read the full explanation →Which sweet is specially associated with the Teej festival in Haryana?
- A.Ghevar
- B.Alsi ki pinni
- C.Gond ke laddu
- D.Churma
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Ghevar, the disc of fried batter soaked in syrup, is the sweet of the Hariyali Teej of Sawan, when swings are hung from the trees, a married daughter receives new clothes and sweets from her parents, and the women of the household sing Teej songs.
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