Sant Garib Das, who founded the Garibdasi sect, belonged to which village of Haryana?
- A.Kosli in Rewari
- B.Chhudani in Jhajjar
- C.Sihi in Faridabad
- D.Gudiyani in Rewari
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Chhudani in Jhajjar. Sant Garib Das of Chhudani, in the present Jhajjar district, founded the Garibdasi sect in the eighteenth century and left a very large body of devotional verse, collected as the Sat Granth, which is still recited by his followers. He is the chief name in the devotional literature of Haryana.
Option A, Kosli in Rewari district, is the place of Swami Nischaldas, the author of Vichar Sagar on Vedanta. Option C, Sihi in Faridabad district, is where tradition places the birth of Surdas. Option D, Gudiyani, also in Rewari district, is the village of Chaudhary Bal Mukand Gupta. All four are literary birthplaces of the state, which is why they are set together, so each name must be fixed to its own village.
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Practice Questions
View allHaryanvi is classed as a dialect of which group of Indo-Aryan speech?
- A.Eastern Hindi
- B.Western Hindi
- C.Rajasthani
- D.Pahari
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Haryanvi belongs to the Central or Western Hindi group of Indo-Aryan, which descends from Shauraseni Apabhramsha and also contains Khari Boli, Braj and Bundeli.
Read the full explanation →In the Linguistic Survey of India by George Abraham Grierson, the speech of the Haryana region is recorded under which name?
- A.Bangaru
- B.Kauravi
- C.Khadar
- D.Deswali
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Grierson, who conducted the Linguistic Survey of India, placed the speech of the central districts of this region under Western Hindi with the name Bangaru, and that remains its standard scholarly name.
Read the full explanation →The Bagri dialect of Haryana is spoken chiefly in which districts?
- A.Rohtak and Jhajjar
- B.Sirsa and Fatehabad
- C.Ambala and Panchkula
- D.Nuh and Palwal
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Bagri is spoken in the south-western corner of the state, in Sirsa and Fatehabad and parts of Hisar, where Haryana meets Rajasthan and Punjab, and it is close enough to Rajasthani speech that it is often described as a Rajasthani dialect carried into Haryana.
Read the full explanation →The Ahirwati dialect is spoken in which part of Haryana?
- A.Rewari and Mahendragarh
- B.Karnal and Panipat
- C.Yamunanagar and Kurukshetra
- D.Jind and Kaithal
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Ahirwati, also called Hirwati, is the speech of the Ahirwal tract in the south of the state, which covers Rewari, Mahendragarh and parts of Gurugram.
Read the full explanation →Mewati, one of the dialects of Haryana, is spoken chiefly in which district?
- A.Sirsa
- B.Nuh
- C.Bhiwani
- D.Panchkula
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Mewati is the speech of the Mewat tract, which centres on Nuh district and extends into parts of Palwal and Faridabad and across the border into Rajasthan.
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