Railway GK Questions 2026

The Nagari Pracharini Sabha was founded at Varanasi in 1893 by students of the Queens College to press for the use of Devanagari and Hindi in the courts and offices, and it went on to publish dictionaries, manuscripts and the Hindi Shabdasagar.

Mahadevi Verma, born at Farrukhabad in 1907, was given the Jnanpith Award in 1982 for Yama, a collection that brings together her lyric poetry.

Prasad, who lived at Varanasi from 1889 to 1937, published Kamayani in 1936; it retells the story of Manu, Shraddha and Ida as an allegory of feeling and intellect and is treated as the chief long poem of Chhayavad.

Premchand, whose real name was Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, was born at Lamhi village near Varanasi in 1880 and died in 1936.

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.

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.

Jayasi belonged to Jais in the present Amethi district and completed the Padmavat in 1540.

Tulsidas wrote the Ramcharitmanas in Awadhi, the Eastern Hindi speech of the Awadh region around Ayodhya, and began the work at Ayodhya in 1574.

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.

Bhajju Shyam, a nephew of Jangarh Singh Shyam and a painter of the Jangarh Kalam, was invited to London to paint a restaurant and recorded that journey in The London Jungle Book, in which the city is drawn through Gond imagery, the underground train as an earthworm and the double…

The Pardhans are the bardic group within Gond society who sing the deeds of Bada Dev to the three stringed fiddle called the bana, and who receive a customary payment from the families they sing for.

The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya was set up in 1977 and stands on the Shamla Hills at Bhopal, overlooking the Upper Lake.

Bada Dev, also called Budha Dev, is the chief deity of the Gonds and is worshipped in the saja tree; the Pardhan bards sing his deeds to the three stringed bana, and these songs are the source from which Gond painting drew its subjects.

Mandana is made by women of the Malwa and Nimar region, who coat the floor or the lower wall with red geru and then draw geometric figures, flowers, peacocks and lamps on it with white chui mitti.

These three are notified as particularly vulnerable tribal groups in Madhya Pradesh, a category earlier called primitive tribal groups and defined by a pre-agricultural level of technology, very low literacy, a small and stagnant population and a forest based life.

Bhuri Bai of Pitol village in Jhabua district is a Bhil artist who began as a wage worker at the Bharat Bhavan site, was encouraged to paint on paper by Jagdish Swaminathan and became the first Bhil artist to carry Pithora forms on to paper and canvas.

Bharat Bhavan opened at Bhopal in 1982 in a building designed by the architect Charles Correa, and its art gallery Roopankar, shaped by the painter Jagdish Swaminathan, placed the work of village and tribal artists beside modern Indian painting.

Pithora is the ritual wall painting of the Bhil and Bhilala people of Jhabua, Alirajpur and Dhar in the west of the state.

Patangarh, the village of Jangarh Singh Shyam and of many Gond painters after him, lies in Dindori district in the eastern, forested part of the state, in the Gond country that also covers Mandla.

A Pardhan Gond of Patangarh village in Dindori district, he was brought to Bhopal in the early nineteen eighties for Roopankar, the gallery of Bharat Bhavan, and turned the Digna wall patterns and the songs of Bada Dev into paintings on paper and canvas.