The bana, a three stringed instrument, is played by which group of Gond bards?
- A.Pardhan
- B.Agariya
- C.Bhilala
- D.Korku
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Pardhan. The Pardhans are the bardic group within Gond society who sing the deeds of Bada Dev to the three stringed fiddle called the bana, and who receive a customary payment from the families they sing for. Jangarh Singh Shyam came from this group, and the subjects of Gond painting, the deities, the tree of life and the animals, come straight from these songs.
Option B, Agariya, is the iron smelting group of the Gond country, known for wrought iron figures rather than for music. Option C, Bhilala, is a subgroup of the Bhil of the western districts, associated with Pithora painting. Option D, Korku, is a separate tribe of the Betul, Khandwa and Melghat belt. The link between the Pardhan singers and the painters is a favourite of descriptive questions, so remember that the painting came out of the song.
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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 →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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Pithora is the ritual wall painting of the Bhil and Bhilala people of Jhabua, Alirajpur and Dhar in the west of the state.
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.
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