The Iqbal Samman of the Madhya Pradesh government is given for creative writing in which language?
- A.Sanskrit
- B.Urdu
- C.Bundeli
- D.Gondi
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Urdu. The Iqbal Samman is one of the national awards run by the culture department of Madhya Pradesh, and it honours creative and critical writing in Urdu. It is named after the poet Muhammad Iqbal, and the state gives it alongside a set of other awards, each attached to a field: the Kalidas Samman for the classical arts, the Kabir Samman for poetry, the Tulsi Samman for folk and tribal art and the Tansen Samman for music.
Option A, Sanskrit, is honoured through the Kalidasa academy and the Kalidas Samman at Ujjain, which cover classical art and scholarship rather than Urdu writing. Option C, Bundeli, and Option D, Gondi, are supported through the academy for tribal folk art and dialects, but no award of this name is given for them. Questions on state awards usually ask you to match the award with its field, so learn the five together.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Nimadi dialect is spoken in which region of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Malwa plateau
- B.Nimar tract along the Narmada
- C.Bundelkhand
- D.Baghelkhand
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Nimadi takes its name from Nimar, the country lying south of the Vindhyas in the Narmada valley, and it is spoken in Khargone, Khandwa, Barwani and Burhanpur.
Read the full explanation →Which dialect of Madhya Pradesh is spoken in Rewa, Satna, Sidhi and Shahdol?
- A.Bundeli
- B.Bagheli
- C.Malwi
- D.Kannauji
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Rewa was the capital of the Baghel Rajput house that gave the region its name, and the dialect shades into Awadhi towards Uttar Pradesh and into Chhattisgarhi towards the south east, which is exactly why Grierson classified it as Eastern Hindi.
Read the full explanation →The Gondi language of Madhya Pradesh belongs to which language family?
- A.Indo-Aryan
- B.Dravidian
- C.Austroasiatic
- D.Tibeto-Burman
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Gondi is the language of the Gond people, the largest tribal community of central India, spread over the Satpura and Mahakoshal belt of Madhya Pradesh and into the neighbouring states.
Read the full explanation →In the Linguistic Survey of India, Grierson classified Bagheli under which group?
- A.Eastern Hindi
- B.Western Hindi
- C.Rajasthani
- D.Bihari
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Grierson grouped Awadhi, Bagheli and Chhattisgarhi together as Eastern Hindi, because all three descend from the same Ardhamagadhi line and share features that set them apart from the dialects further west.
Read the full explanation →Keshavdas, the author of Ramchandrika, was a poet of which court?
- A.Orchha
- B.Gwalior
- C.Mandu
- D.Ujjain
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Keshavdas lived at the Bundela court of Orchha on the Betwa, and he is treated as the acharya who opened the riti era of Hindi poetry, in which the rules of poetics mattered as much as the feeling.
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