Which city of Uttar Pradesh is called Peetal Nagri, the brass city of India?
- A.Moradabad
- B.Firozabad
- C.Aligarh
- D.Khurja
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The correct answer is A, Moradabad. Moradabad has worked brass for centuries into engraved, enamelled and lacquered vessels, lamps and decorative ware, and the trade gave it the name Peetal Nagri. It is one of the biggest handicraft export centres in the country, and its workshops have since added iron, aluminium and glass fittings to the same export lines.
Option B, Firozabad, is the glass city, where bangles, chandeliers and laboratory ware are made. Option C, Aligarh, is the lock city, whose locks and builders hardware are sold across India. Option D, Khurja, in Bulandshahr district, makes glazed pottery and holds a GI of its own. All four are craft towns of western Uttar Pradesh and are offered together on purpose, so the material, brass, glass, locks or pottery, is the key to the match.
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Practice Questions
View allThe chikankari style of embroidery is traditionally associated with which city of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Varanasi
- B.Lucknow
- C.Agra
- D.Bareilly
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Chikankari is the shadow embroidery of Lucknow, worked in white thread on fine cotton, muslin or chiffon, and its stitches, tepchi, bakhiya, murri, phanda and jaali, are learnt as a set.
Read the full explanation →Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh is famous for the manufacture of which product?
- A.Carpets
- B.Attar and perfume
- C.Glass bangles
- D.Black pottery
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Kannauj is called the perfume capital of India. Its distillers work by the deg and bhapka method, in which flower petals, herbs or sandalwood are heated in copper vessels over a wood fire and the vapour is condensed into a receiver containing sandalwood oil.
Read the full explanation →Khurja, known for its glazed pottery and holding a GI tag, lies in which district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Bulandshahr
- B.Hapur
- C.Meerut
- D.Mathura
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Khurja is a town in Bulandshahr district of western Uttar Pradesh, and its thick glazed pottery, painted in bright floral patterns on a white ground, is sold as Khurja pottery and is a registered geographical indication.
Read the full explanation →The black pottery of Nizamabad, a registered GI craft, belongs to which district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Ghazipur
- B.Azamgarh
- C.Jaunpur
- D.Mau
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Nizamabad is a town in Azamgarh district, and its potters make thin walled black pottery that is rubbed with mustard oil, fired in a closed kiln so that the smoke blackens the clay, and then decorated with silver-coloured patterns applied with a zinc and mercury paste.
Read the full explanation →Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh is best known for which industry?
- A.Leather goods
- B.Glass bangles and glassware
- C.Wood carving
- D.Hand-knotted carpets
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Firozabad, near Agra, is called the glass city of India. Its furnaces blow and press glass into bangles, chandeliers, beads, bottles and laboratory ware, and the bangle trade alone supports a very large number of small units in the town, which is why Firozabad is the standard answer whenever glass…
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