Which 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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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Urdu. 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. The state also maintains a separate Urdu Academy to publish and promote work in the language.
Option A, Punjabi, is a second official language in Haryana and Delhi, not in Uttar Pradesh, which is the commonest trap in this question. Option C, Bhojpuri, is spoken by crores of people in the eastern districts of the state, but it is counted under Hindi in the census, is not in the Eighth Schedule and has no official status. Option D, Sanskrit, is a scheduled language and a second official language in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, again not in Uttar Pradesh. Remember the pair: Hindi since 1951, Urdu since 1989.
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Practice Questions
View allThe 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.
Read the full explanation →Munshi Premchand, the novel emperor of Hindi, was born at which place?
- A.Lamhi in Varanasi
- B.Daulatpur in Raebareli
- C.Garhakola in Unnao
- D.Jais in Amethi
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Premchand, whose real name was Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, was born at Lamhi village near Varanasi in 1880 and died in 1936.
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