Haryana GK Questions 2026

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.

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.

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.

Chhathi takes its name from the number six, and the ceremony falls on the sixth day after a birth, when the mother and the newborn are brought out, the household is purified and the women of the family and the neighbourhood sing and dance in the courtyard.

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.

The math at Asthal Bohar on the edge of Rohtak holds the fair of Baba Mastnath, a Nath sant of the region, and it is the best known fair of that district.

Haryana came into being on 1 November 1966, when the Punjab Reorganisation Act carved it out of the former state of Punjab, and the day is kept across the districts as Haryana Day with cultural programmes and state awards.

Gugga Naumi is kept on the Navami of the dark half of Bhadrapada in honour of Gugga Pir, a folk deity revered by Hindus and Muslims alike in Haryana, and his chhari, a decorated staff, is carried from village to village with drums and songs.

Pharal in Kaithal district holds the Phalgu tirtha, where pind-daan is offered for ancestors in the same tradition as at Gaya, and the fair that gathers there is one of the oldest in the Saraswati belt of the state.

The temple of Sheetla Mata, known locally as Masani Devi, stands at Gurugram, and its fair is held in Chaitra and again around Ashwin, drawing lakhs of pilgrims over several weeks; it is the biggest fair of the district.

The Kapal Mochan fair is held at Bilaspur in Yamunanagar district on Kartik Purnima, around the three tanks of Kapal Mochan, Rin Mochan and Surya Kund, and it is a large cattle fair as well as a bathing fair; the gurdwara there records a visit of Guru Gobind Singh.

The amphitheatre-shaped tank at Surajkund, with stepped embankments on a hill slope, is attributed by tradition to the Tomar king Surajpal, and the name of the place is taken from his, which is why the modern crafts fair carries it too.