Which poet is called the Surya Kavi and the Shakespeare of Haryana?
- A.Pandit Deepchand
- B.Pandit Lakhmi Chand
- C.Baje Bhagat
- D.Chaudhary Bal Mukand Gupta
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Pandit Lakhmi Chand. Pandit Lakhmi Chand is the greatest of the Saang poets of Haryana, and his raginis are still sung across the state. He is called the Surya Kavi, the sun poet, and the Shakespeare of Haryana for the range of his verse plays, and the state folk art award is named after him.
Option A, Pandit Deepchand, is the earlier figure who gave the Saang its settled form, so he is the founder and not the greatest practitioner, which is the distinction the question rests on. Option C, Baje Bhagat, is another major Saang poet of the same tradition. Option D, Chaudhary Bal Mukand Gupta, was a Hindi essayist and journalist of Gudiyani in Rewari district, remembered for Shiv Shambhu ke Chitthe, and belongs to modern prose rather than to folk theatre.
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Practice Questions
View allHaryanvi is classed as a dialect of which group of Indo-Aryan speech?
- A.Eastern Hindi
- B.Western Hindi
- C.Rajasthani
- D.Pahari
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Haryanvi belongs to the Central or Western Hindi group of Indo-Aryan, which descends from Shauraseni Apabhramsha and also contains Khari Boli, Braj and Bundeli.
Read the full explanation →In the Linguistic Survey of India by George Abraham Grierson, the speech of the Haryana region is recorded under which name?
- A.Bangaru
- B.Kauravi
- C.Khadar
- D.Deswali
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Grierson, who conducted the Linguistic Survey of India, placed the speech of the central districts of this region under Western Hindi with the name Bangaru, and that remains its standard scholarly name.
Read the full explanation →The Bagri dialect of Haryana is spoken chiefly in which districts?
- A.Rohtak and Jhajjar
- B.Sirsa and Fatehabad
- C.Ambala and Panchkula
- D.Nuh and Palwal
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Bagri is spoken in the south-western corner of the state, in Sirsa and Fatehabad and parts of Hisar, where Haryana meets Rajasthan and Punjab, and it is close enough to Rajasthani speech that it is often described as a Rajasthani dialect carried into Haryana.
Read the full explanation →The Ahirwati dialect is spoken in which part of Haryana?
- A.Rewari and Mahendragarh
- B.Karnal and Panipat
- C.Yamunanagar and Kurukshetra
- D.Jind and Kaithal
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Ahirwati, also called Hirwati, is the speech of the Ahirwal tract in the south of the state, which covers Rewari, Mahendragarh and parts of Gurugram.
Read the full explanation →Mewati, one of the dialects of Haryana, is spoken chiefly in which district?
- A.Sirsa
- B.Nuh
- C.Bhiwani
- D.Panchkula
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Mewati is the speech of the Mewat tract, which centres on Nuh district and extends into parts of Palwal and Faridabad and across the border into Rajasthan.
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