The Marris College of Hindustani Music, now Bhatkhande Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, was founded at Lucknow in 1926 by
- A.Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
- B.Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande
- C.Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
- D.Bindadin Maharaj
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The correct answer is B, Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande. Bhatkhande was the musicologist who collected and notated Hindustani compositions and arranged the ragas into the ten thaat system still taught in schools. He set up the Marris College of Hindustani Music at Lucknow in 1926, naming it after the then Governor, and the institution now bears his own name as the Bhatkhande Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya.
Option A, Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, was his great contemporary who founded the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya at Lahore in 1901 and who took music to the public through bhajan, so the two names are regularly interchanged in papers. Option C, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, was a patron of Kathak and thumri in the previous century and had been exiled in 1856, long before 1926. Option D, Bindadin Maharaj, was a Kathak master and thumri composer of the Lucknow gharana, not the founder of a college.
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- A.Jaipur gharana
- B.Lucknow gharana
- C.Banaras gharana
- D.Raigarh gharana
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The Lucknow gharana of Kathak took shape in the court of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh, who was himself a dancer and a composer of thumris under the pen name Akhtarpiya.
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- A.Tabla
- B.Nagada or nakkara
- C.Sarangi
- D.Pakhawaj
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Nautanki is played on an open platform to an audience of hundreds, often through the whole night, so it needs an instrument that carries.
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- A.Bundelkhand
- B.Braj
- C.Purvanchal
- D.Rohilkhand
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Read the full explanation →Ramlila, the traditional performance of the Ramayana, was placed by UNESCO on which list?
- A.World Heritage List
- B.Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
- C.Memory of the World Register
- D.List of Creative Cities
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Ramlila is a living performance tradition rather than a building or a document, so it was inscribed in 2008 on the list that UNESCO maintains for intangible heritage, the same list that carries Kutiyattam, Vedic chanting and Ramman from India.
Read the full explanation →Which pair of towns are the two main centres and styles of Nautanki?
- A.Hathras and Kanpur
- B.Mathura and Agra
- C.Varanasi and Jaunpur
- D.Lucknow and Faizabad
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Nautanki grew into two recognised styles, the Hathras style in which the sung music and the verse metres dominate and the audience comes for the singing, and the Kanpur style in which dialogue, acting and stagecraft carry more of the play.
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