Indian Culture

Kherai Puja is an important religious ceremony of the Bodo community, associated with traditional deities and community well-being.

The Borlaug Award is associated with agriculture and honours contributions to agricultural science and food security.

Ghoomar is a traditional folk dance of Rajasthan, historically associated with women’s festive performances.

Mahuri is a traditional wind instrument associated with Odisha, used in folk and ceremonial music.

Mohiniyattam is the classical dance tradition of Kerala. It is traditionally associated with graceful solo performance.

Abanindranath Tagore painted the celebrated Bharat Mata image around 1905, an important work of the Bengal School of Art.

Gandhara art flourished especially under the Kushan dynasty. It is noted for Greco-Roman influence and early anthropomorphic images of the Buddha.

Kalidasa is popularly called the “Shakespeare of India” because of his major Sanskrit works in drama and poetry.

Chihna Jatra is traditionally regarded in the source as Sankardev’s first drama. Sankardev was the key pioneer of Assamese Vaishnavite theatre and the Ankiya Naat tradition.

The Turks are generally credited in Indian history sources with introducing polo to India. The game later became associated with Mughal and princely courts.

Amir Khusrau is popularly known as the “Parrot of India” and was a major Indo-Persian poet and musician of the Delhi Sultanate.

Padmanath Gohain Baruah wrote the Assamese novel Lahori. He was an important pioneer of modern Assamese literature.

Wood’s Despatch of 1854 is often called the “Magna Carta of English Education in India” because it laid out a comprehensive educational policy for British India.

The slogan “India for the Indians” is associated with Swami Dayanand Saraswati and his reform movement, the Arya Samaj.

The source identifies Prasanna Lal Choudhury as “Bidrohi Kobi”. Such sobriquets are commonly used in Assam literary GK.

The Dilwara Jain Temples are located at Mount Abu in Rajasthan. Their marble architecture dates mainly from the 11th–13th centuries.

Losar is the Tibetan Buddhist New Year festival, widely celebrated in Himachal Pradesh, especially in Buddhist communities.

Biswa Singha founded the Koch dynasty in the early 16th century. His son Nara Narayan later expanded the kingdom considerably.

The Mongolian Kanjur is a major Buddhist canonical collection in the Mongolian tradition, containing translations of Buddhist scriptures.

Hola Mohalla is a Sikh festival associated with Punjab, traditionally celebrated around the time of Holi.