SSC GK Questions 2026

A traditional Saang troupe was made up entirely of men, and the younger singers took the women's parts in costume, singing the same raginis in a higher register.

Pandit Jasraj was born in a village of Haryana into a family of musicians and became the best known voice of the Mewati gharana, which takes its name from the Mewat region on the Haryana and Rajasthan border.

The Ragini is the stanza song of Haryana, built on a fixed refrain to which the singer returns after every verse.

The Gugga or Gugga Naumi observance falls in the month of Bhadon, when the followers of Gugga Pir, the folk deity associated with protection from snakes, carry the chhari, a tall staff decorated with peacock feathers and coloured cloth, from village to village, dancing and singing his ballad as they…

Khoria is danced by the women of the household among themselves once the men have set out with the wedding procession.

Loor belongs to the sandy Bagar country of the south-west of the state, around Bhiwani and Mahendragarh, and is danced by women and girls in the month of Phalgun and at Holi, when the spring crop is standing.

Dhamal is counted the oldest dance of Haryana and belongs mainly to the Mahendragarh and Jhajjar belt, where the men of the village gather on the open ground on a full moon night of the Phalgun season, form a wide circle and dance to the beat of the dhamal drum…

Lakhmi Chand is the best known Saang poet of Haryana, honoured as the Surya Kavi or sun poet and commonly called the Shakespeare of Haryana for the range of his plays and the quality of his raginis.

Pandit Deepchand is the first great name in the history of Saang and is credited with turning a loose village entertainment into a sung play with a structure: an opening invocation, a story carried in verse, prose passages between the songs and a troupe built around the poet.

Bhagalpur on the Ganga has woven tussar silk for centuries and is called the silk city of Bihar; its handloom weavers produce the coarse golden silk from cocoons reared on forest trees, and the city is a cluster for silk furnishing and sari weaving.

Manjusha is called snake painting because the serpent of the Bishahari legend is its ruling motif: snakes fill the panels, and the borders carry a continuous wavy line that reads as a serpent, one of the border patterns being named lahariya, the wave.

The Patna Kalam was made by families of painters trained in the Mughal manner who left Delhi and Murshidabad in the eighteenth century and settled at Patna.

Sikki is a reed grass of the wetlands of north Bihar whose stalks turn a bright golden colour when dried.

Sujni is a quilted embroidery in which layers of old cloth are held together with rows of running stitch, and the stitches themselves build figures of women, animals, trees and village scenes.

Tikuli takes its name from the tikuli or tikli, the decorated dot worn by women on the forehead, which was once made at Patna out of thin glass fused with gold foil and coloured enamel.

The kohbar ghar is the room in which the bride and bridegroom are brought together after the wedding, and its wall carries the kohbar painting, a composition of the lotus with its ring of leaves, the bamboo grove, fish, parrots and the sun and moon, all of them symbols of…

Kalamkari is the pen and dye work on cloth of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, practised at Srikalahasti and Machilipatnam, and has nothing to do with Mithila.

Manjusha art belongs to Bhagalpur and the Angika-speaking country around it. The paintings are made on the manjusha, a temple-shaped box built of bamboo strips and jute paper, which is carried in procession during the Bihula-Bishahari festival of the rainy season, and the panels tell the story of Bihula and…

Madhubani painting is also called Mithila painting because it grew in the Mithila region of northern Bihar, chiefly in the districts of Madhubani and Darbhanga, and the form takes its common name from the first of these districts.

That law only restrained child marriage by punishing those who performed it; the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 goes further, making such a marriage voidable at the option of the contracting party who was a child, providing for Child Marriage Prohibition Officers and injunctions, and keeping the legal age…