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Sujni embroidery of Bihar is associated with which district?

  1. A.Muzaffarpur
  2. B.Nalanda
  3. C.Saran
  4. D.Purnia

Correct answer

A. Muzaffarpur

Explanation

The correct answer is A, Muzaffarpur. Sujni is a quilted embroidery in which layers of old cloth are held together with rows of running stitch, and the stitches themselves build figures of women, animals, trees and village scenes. It was practised in the village of Bhusura and the country around it in Muzaffarpur district, and the women who revived it as a craft for sale used it to tell stories about their own lives, from dowry and illiteracy to the care of daughters.

Option B, Nalanda, is known for the ancient university site and for Baragaon brassware rather than for Sujni. Option C, Saran, and option D, Purnia, have their own weaving and farming traditions but are not the home of this embroidery. Papers often pair Sujni with Muzaffarpur, Sikki with Mithila and Khatwa with Patna in a single match-the-list question, so the three deserve to be learnt together.

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Q1.BiharEasy

Madhubani painting belongs to which region of Bihar?

  1. A.Anga, around Bhagalpur
  2. B.Mithila, in the north
  3. C.Magadh, around Gaya
  4. D.Bhojpur, in the west
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Correct answer: B. Mithila, in the north

Madhubani painting is also called Mithila painting because it grew in the Mithila region of northern Bihar, chiefly in the districts of Madhubani and Darbhanga, and the form takes its common name from the first of these districts.

Q2.BiharMedium

Manjusha art, which narrates the legend of Bihula and Bishahari, belongs to which district of Bihar?

  1. A.Madhubani
  2. B.Bhagalpur
  3. C.Gaya
  4. D.Patna
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Correct answer: B. Bhagalpur

Manjusha art belongs to Bhagalpur and the Angika-speaking country around it. The paintings are made on the manjusha, a temple-shaped box built of bamboo strips and jute paper, which is carried in procession during the Bihula-Bishahari festival of the rainy season, and the panels tell the story of Bihula and…

Q4.BiharMedium

In Mithila tradition, the kohbar ghar on whose wall the painting is made is

  1. A.the nuptial chamber of a newly married couple
  2. B.the kitchen of the house
  3. C.the cattle shed
  4. D.the village shrine
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Correct answer: A. the nuptial chamber of a newly married couple

The kohbar ghar is the room in which the bride and bridegroom are brought together after the wedding, and its wall carries the kohbar painting, a composition of the lotus with its ring of leaves, the bamboo grove, fish, parrots and the sun and moon, all of them symbols of…

Q5.BiharHard

Tikuli art of Patna originally decorated which object?

  1. A.Earthen pottery
  2. B.The bindi worn on the forehead
  3. C.Temple doors
  4. D.Palm leaf manuscripts
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Correct answer: B. The bindi worn on the forehead

Tikuli takes its name from the tikuli or tikli, the decorated dot worn by women on the forehead, which was once made at Patna out of thin glass fused with gold foil and coloured enamel.