The Nagari Pracharini Sabha, founded in 1893 to promote the Devanagari script, is located in which city?
- A.Prayagraj
- B.Lucknow
- C.Varanasi
- D.Agra
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Varanasi. The Nagari Pracharini Sabha was founded at Varanasi in 1893 by students of the Queens College to press for the use of Devanagari and Hindi in the courts and offices, and it went on to publish dictionaries, manuscripts and the Hindi Shabdasagar. It is the oldest of the great Hindi institutions of the state.
Option A, Prayagraj, is the seat of the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, founded in 1910, which is the usual confusion in this question. Option B, Lucknow, is the state capital and has the Bharatendu Natya Akademi, set up in 1975, and the Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan, set up in 1976, whose highest honour is the Bharat Bharati Samman. Option D, Agra, is associated with Urdu poets such as Mir Taqi Mir and Nazeer Akbarabadi, not with this body. Learn the three pairs of institution, city and year together.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich language was given the status of the second official language of Uttar Pradesh in 1989?
- A.Punjabi
- B.Urdu
- C.Bhojpuri
- D.Sanskrit
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Hindi in the Devanagari script is the official language of Uttar Pradesh under the Uttar Pradesh Official Language Act, 1951, and an amendment passed in 1989 added Urdu as the second official language of the state.
Read the full explanation →The Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas is composed in which dialect?
- A.Braj Bhasha
- B.Awadhi
- C.Bundeli
- D.Khari Boli
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Tulsidas wrote the Ramcharitmanas in Awadhi, the Eastern Hindi speech of the Awadh region around Ayodhya, and began the work at Ayodhya in 1574.
Read the full explanation →The Awadhi Sufi romance Padmavat was written by which poet of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Kabir
- B.Malik Muhammad Jayasi
- C.Raskhan
- D.Ghananand
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Jayasi belonged to Jais in the present Amethi district and completed the Padmavat in 1540.
Read the full explanation →Braj Bhasha is chiefly spoken in which part of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Purvanchal around Varanasi and Gorakhpur
- B.The Mathura, Agra and Aligarh region
- C.Bundelkhand around Jhansi
- D.Awadh around Lucknow
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Braj Bhasha is the speech of the Braj tract, which covers Mathura, Agra, Aligarh, Hathras and Etah, and it belongs to the Western Hindi group that descends from Shauraseni Apabhramsha.
Read the full explanation →Bhojpuri, spoken in eastern Uttar Pradesh, is classed under which group of Indo-Aryan speech?
- A.Western Hindi
- B.Eastern Hindi
- C.Bihari group
- D.Pahari group
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Bhojpuri descends from Magadhi Apabhramsha and is grouped with Magahi and Maithili in the Bihari group of the Eastern Indo-Aryan family, a classification made by George Abraham Grierson in the Linguistic Survey of India.
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