The well known Hindi poem Satpura ke Ghane Jungle was written by whom?
- A.Makhanlal Chaturvedi
- B.Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
- C.Bhavani Prasad Mishra
- D.Sharad Joshi
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Bhavani Prasad Mishra. Born at Tigaria in the Narmadapuram country, he wrote Satpura ke Ghane Jungle, a poem whose slow repeated lines imitate the drowsy depth of the Satpura forest, and it is among the best known descriptive poems in modern Hindi. He also received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Buni Hui Rassi, and his plain speaking style earned him the name of the Gandhi of Hindi poetry.
Option A, Makhanlal Chaturvedi, from the same district, wrote Pushp ki Abhilasha and Him Tarangini. Option B, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, who spent her working life in Jabalpur, is remembered for the ballad on the Rani of Jhansi. Option D, Sharad Joshi, of Ujjain, was a satirist and columnist, not a nature poet. Since three of the four are closely tied to the state, the poem itself is the only reliable clue.
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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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