Who received the first Sahitya Akademi Award given in Hindi?
- A.Bhavani Prasad Mishra
- B.Makhanlal Chaturvedi
- C.Harishankar Parsai
- D.Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Makhanlal Chaturvedi, for his collection of poems Him Tarangini. Born at Babai in the present Narmadapuram district, he was a poet of the freedom movement as well as an editor, and he is widely remembered for Pushp ki Abhilasha, in which a flower asks not to be offered to a deity but to be strewn on the path along which soldiers march.
Option A, Bhavani Prasad Mishra, from the same district, received the Sahitya Akademi Award later, for Buni Hui Rassi, and is famous for Satpura ke Ghane Jungle. Option C, Harishankar Parsai, the master of Hindi satire, received the award for Viklang Shraddha ka Daur. Option D, Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, the poet of Chand ka Munh Tedha Hai, was not honoured in his lifetime at all. All four belong to Madhya Pradesh, so only the word first separates the answer from the distractors.
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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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