The shining black pottery of Nizamabad is a craft of which state?
- A.Telangana
- B.Uttar Pradesh
- C.Gujarat
- D.Bihar
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Uttar Pradesh. The black pottery of Nizamabad comes from a town of that name in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh. The potters smoke fire the vessels in a closed kiln so that carbon enters the clay and turns it deep black, rub them with vegetable oil to give a shine, and then engrave patterns that are filled with a silvery zinc and mercury mixture, giving the typical silver on black effect.
Option A is tempting because Telangana also has a town called Nizamabad, but the pottery craft belongs to the Azamgarh town, not the Telangana district. Option C is wrong because Gujarat is known for Kutch terracotta and the Khavda pottery. Option D is wrong because Bihar is better known for Sujani and Madhubani work and for the sikki and bamboo crafts rather than for black pottery.
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Practice Questions
View allPainted Grey Ware is generally associated with which period of Indian history?
- A.Mature Harappan period
- B.Later Vedic period
- C.Mauryan period
- D.Gupta period
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Painted Grey Ware is a fine, thin, wheel made grey pottery decorated with simple black lines, dots and spirals, dated roughly between 1100 and 600 BCE.
Read the full explanation →Northern Black Polished Ware is the characteristic pottery of which phase?
- A.The Neolithic villages of Mehrgarh
- B.The Chalcolithic cultures of the Deccan
- C.The Mahajanapadas and the Mauryan empire
- D.The Delhi Sultanate
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Northern Black Polished Ware, usually shortened to NBPW, is a very fine clay pottery with a glossy, almost mirror like surface in steel grey to jet black.
Read the full explanation →Ochre Coloured Pottery has mainly been found in which region of India?
- A.Upper Ganga and Yamuna doab
- B.Kerala coast
- C.Brahmaputra valley
- D.Konkan coast
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Ochre Coloured Pottery, usually abbreviated to OCP, is a worn, ill fired, orange to ochre pottery whose colour rubs off on the fingers because the surface has been damaged by water.
Read the full explanation →Which statement best describes the pottery of the mature Harappan civilisation?
- A.Handmade grey ware painted in white
- B.Wheel made red ware with designs painted in black
- C.Glazed blue ware made of quartz powder
- D.Unpainted glossy black deluxe ware
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Mature Harappan potters used the fast wheel and fired their pots well, producing a sturdy red ware on which they painted in black over a red slip.
Read the full explanation →Rouletted Ware found at Arikamedu is evidence of which kind of contact?
- A.Trade with the Roman world
- B.Trade with Central Asia over the Silk Route
- C.Migration from the Tibetan plateau
- D.Contact with the Harappan cities
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Rouletted Ware is a wheel turned dish with concentric rows of small impressed dots on the inner surface, made by holding a toothed tool against the turning pot.
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