Indian Art, Culture, Literature and Heritage

Indian Art And Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Mahasweta Devi with the correct year: In ______, she married author Asit Gupta after divorcing Bhattacharya.
  2. Complete the sentence about Mahasweta Devi with the correct year: On 23 July ______, Devi suffered a major heart attack and was admitted to Belle Vue Clinic, Kolkata.
  3. Complete the sentence about Jhumpa Lahiri with the correct year: In ______, her family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when she was three.
  4. Complete the sentence about Vikram Seth with the correct year: In ______, he became a leader of the campaign against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a law against homosexuality.
  5. Complete the sentence about Amitav Ghosh with the correct year: Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 11 July ______ and was educated at the all-boys boarding school The Doon School in Dehradun.
  6. Complete the sentence about Anita Desai with the correct year: Desai was born in ______ in Mussoorie, India, to a German immigrant mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman, D.
  7. Complete the sentence about Anita Desai with the correct year: For that work she won the ______ Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children…
  8. Complete the sentence about Anita Desai with the correct year: In ______, she published In Custody – about an Urdu poet in his declining days – which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
  9. Complete the sentence about Anita Desai with the correct year: In ______, she became a creative writing teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  10. Complete the sentence about Anita Desai with the correct year: The ______ Booker Prize finalist novel Fasting, Feasting increased her popularity.
  11. Complete the sentence about Kiran Desai with the correct year: Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Jnanpith Award with the correct year: The first award selection committee meeting was scheduled for 16 March ______ and Prasad was appointed as its president.
  13. Complete the sentence about Sahitya Akademi Award with the correct year: During the Indo-Pakistan War of ______, the plaque was substituted with national savings bonds.
  14. Complete the sentence about Sahitya Akademi Award with the correct year: Awards for translations were instituted in ______ at the insistence of the then-Prime Minister of India, P.
  15. Complete the sentence about Biryani with the correct year: The Portuguese priest Sebastien Manrique described rice dishes on sale in the tent-city of the next Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as he travelled…
  16. Complete the sentence about Butter chicken with the correct year: In ______, the English phrase "butter chicken" curry first appeared in print, as a specialty of the house at Gaylord Indian restaurant…
  17. Complete the sentence about Idli with the correct year: In Karnataka, the Idli in ______ CE is described as being "light, like coins of high value", which is not suggestive of a rice base.
  18. Complete the sentence about Idli with the correct year: The references to the modern recipe appear in the Indian works only after ______ CE.
  19. Complete the sentence about Idli with the correct year: According to Dorian Fuller, the steaming technique was already in use in Neolithic South India around ______ BCE.
  20. Complete the sentence about Naan with the correct year: The earliest known English use of the term occurs in an ______ travelogue written by William Tooke.
  21. Complete the sentence about Naan with the correct year: The most likely origin is attributed to André Risser, who, concerned about the French reception of Indian cuisine in ______, decided to fill naa…
  22. Complete the sentence about Naan with the correct year: Another hypothesis attributes the creation of the variant, in Paris in ______, to an Indian family from Bombay.
  23. Complete the sentence about Tandoori chicken with the correct year: Jacqueline Kennedy was reported to have eaten "chicken tandoori" on a flight from Rome to Bombay in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Chole bhature with the correct year: Peshori Lal Lamba, a native of Lahore, moved to Delhi after the ______ partition of India and opened Kwality Restaurant in the Connaugh…
  25. Complete the sentence about Jalebi with the correct year: Priyamkara-nrpa-katha, a work by the Jain author Jinasura, composed around ______ CE, mentions jalebi in the context of a dinner held by a ric…
  26. Complete the sentence about Jalebi with the correct year: Jalebi made from khoya or mawa, was invented by Harprasad Badkul, in the year ______, in Jabalpur.
  27. Complete the sentence about Rasgulla with the correct year: The spongy, white rôśôgolla is believed to have been introduced in present-day West Bengal in ______ by the Kolkata-based confectioner Nobin…
  28. Complete the sentence about Curry with the correct year: By ______ BCE, seafaring merchants from Austronesian communities were already trading spices across the ocean.
  29. Complete the sentence about Curry with the correct year: Black pepper is native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia and has been known to Indian cooking since at least ______ BCE.
  30. Complete the sentence about Sari with the correct year: The history of sari-like drapery can be traced back to ancient India, between 2800 and ______ BCE, around the northwestern region of the Indian…
  31. Complete the sentence about Indian architecture with the correct year: In South India, the Neolithic period began in 6500 BCE and lasted till around ______ BCE when the Megalithic transition period be…
  32. Complete the sentence about Indian architecture with the correct year: The earliest clear evidence of the megalithic urn burials, discovered at various places in Tamil Nadu, date back to ______ BCE.
  33. Complete the sentence about Raja Ravi Varma with the correct year: Bhageerthi was the youngest of three sisters; her two elder siblings were adopted into the royal family of Travancore in ______ to pe…
  34. Complete the sentence about Raja Ravi Varma with the correct year: In ______ CE, the Royal House of Travancore once again faced a succession crisis.
  35. Complete the sentence about M. F. Husain with the correct year: In ______, he received the National Film Award for Best Experimental Film for Through the Eyes of a Painter.
  36. Complete the sentence about Amrita Sher-Gil with the correct year: Amrita Sher-Gil was born Dalma-Amrita on 30 January ______, at 4 Szilágyi Dezső square, Budapest, then part of the Austro-Hungarian E…
  37. Complete the sentence about Amrita Sher-Gil with the correct year: Baktay noticed Sher-Gil's artistic talents during his visit to Shimla in ______ and was an advocate of Sher-Gil pursuing art.
  38. Complete the sentence about Amrita Sher-Gil with the correct year: In ______, her family moved to Summer Hill in Shimla, India, and Sher-Gil soon began learning piano and violin.
  39. Complete the sentence about Amrita Sher-Gil with the correct year: In ______, Marie came to know an Italian sculptor, who was living in Shimla at the time.
  40. Complete the sentence about Cricket in India with the correct year: Cricket was brought to India in the early 1700s, with the first documented instance of cricket being played in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Cricket in India with the correct year: India became the sixth national team to play Test cricket on their ______ tour of England.
  42. Complete the sentence about Board of Control for Cricket in India with the correct year: The first recorded match in India was played between the British army and British settlers in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Board of Control for Cricket in India with the correct year: The world's second-oldest cricket club, Calcutta Cricket Club, was founded in ______ in present-day Kolkata.
  44. Complete the sentence about Indian Premier League with the correct year: In ______, the IPL became the first sporting event to broadcast live on YouTube.
  45. Complete the sentence about 2011 Cricket World Cup with the correct year: The ______ ICC Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup.
  46. Complete the sentence about Kapil Dev with the correct year: Dev was the captain of the Indian cricket team that won the ______ Cricket World Cup.
  47. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
  48. Complete the sentence about Sourav Ganguly with the correct year: In ______, the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the sixth greatest ODI batsman of all time.
  49. Complete the sentence about Sourav Ganguly with the correct year: Sourav Ganguly was born on 8 July ______ in Calcutta, and is the youngest son of Chandidas and Nirupa Ganguly.
  50. Complete the sentence about Rohit Sharma with the correct year: Sharma was born on 30 April ______ into a Marathi-Telugu family in Bansod, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
  51. Complete the sentence about Dhyan Chand with the correct year: The Government of India awarded Chand India's third highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan in ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Dhyan Chand with the correct year: Chand was born in Allahabad on 29 August ______ in a Bais Rajput family to Sharadha Singh and Sameshwar Dutt Singh Bais.
  53. Complete the sentence about Dhyan Chand with the correct year: Chand studied at the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and finally graduated from Victoria College, Gwalior in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Sunil Chhetri with the correct year: In ______, Chhetri led Bengaluru FC to a silver medal finish in the AFC Cup.
  55. Complete the sentence about Saina Nehwal with the correct year: In the ______ Uber Cup, she captained the Indian team and remained undefeated, helping India to win a first-ever Uber Cup bronze medal.
  56. Complete the sentence about Pullela Gopichand with the correct year: Pullela Gopichand was born on 16 November ______ near Chirala Town to Pullela Subash Chandra and Pullela Subbaravamma, in Prakasam…
  57. Complete the sentence about Pullela Gopichand with the correct year: At the ______ Commonwealth Games, he won a silver in the team event and a bronze in men's singles.
  58. Complete the sentence about Pullela Gopichand with the correct year: In ______, he won the Toulouse Open Championship in France and the Scottish Open Championship in Scotland.
  59. Complete the sentence about Neeraj Chopra with the correct year: In ______, he moved to Panchkula to train at the Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex, aged 13.
  60. Complete the sentence about Milkha Singh with the correct year: Singh was awarded the Padma Shri in ______, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, in recognition of his sporting achievements.
  61. Complete the sentence about Milkha Singh with the correct year: The race for which Singh was best remembered is his fourth-place finish in the 400 metres final at the ______ Olympic Games, which he ha…
  62. Complete the sentence about Milkha Singh with the correct year: In ______, journalist Rohit Brijnath described Singh as "the finest athlete India has ever produced".
  63. Complete the sentence about Milkha Singh with the correct year: Milkha Singh was born on 20 November ______, into a Sikh Rathore Rajput family.
  64. Complete the sentence about P. T. Usha with the correct year: In ______, the Kerala State Government started a Sports division for women in Kannur, and Usha started practicing under the guidance of co…
  65. Complete the sentence about P. T. Usha with the correct year: Nambiar in ______ as one among the forty girl athletes in sports division Kannur.
  66. Complete the sentence about Chess in India with the correct year: Modern chess in India began officially with the formation of All India Chess Federation in ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Chess in India with the correct year: In ______, India made its debut at the 12th Chess Olympiad in Moscow.
  68. Complete the sentence about Kabaddi with the correct year: Kabaddi was a demonstration sport in the inaugural edition of the Asian Games held in New Delhi in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Kabaddi with the correct year: The Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India was formed in ______ and kabaddi was designated the national sport of Bangladesh in the same year.
  70. Complete the sentence about Kabaddi with the correct year: With the establishment of the Asian Amateur Kabaddi Federation, the first Asian Kabaddi Championship was organized in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Pro Kabaddi League with the correct year: Star Sports, the Pro Kabaddi League's broadcaster, subsequently announced in ______ that it would acquire a 74% stake in the leagu…
  72. Complete the sentence about Kho kho with the correct year: The modern form of the game was standardised in ______, with its rules and formalised structure being given by Pune's Deccan Gymkhana club.
  73. Complete the sentence about Kho kho with the correct year: Kho-kho was demonstrated at the ______ Berlin Olympics alongside other traditional Indian games.
  74. Complete the sentence about Sakshi Malik with the correct year: At the ______ Rio Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the 58 kg category, becoming the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal at…
  75. Complete the sentence with the correct year: At the ______ Dave Schultz International Tournament, she won gold in the 60 kg category.
  76. Complete the sentence about Vinesh Phogat with the correct year: Vinesh Phogat was born on 25 August ______ in Charkhi Dadri district, Haryana, India.
  77. Complete the sentence about Vinesh Phogat with the correct year: On 13 December ______, Phogat married fellow wrestler Somvir Rathee from Jind.
  78. Complete the sentence about India at the Olympics with the correct year: India first participated at the Olympic Games in ______, becoming the first Asian nation to do so.
  79. Complete the sentence about India at the Olympics with the correct year: The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in ______ and has participated in every Summer Games since then.
  80. Complete the sentence about India at the Olympics with the correct year: India has competed at several Winter Olympic Games after its debut in ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Asian Games with the correct year: Since the ______ Games, they have been organized by the Olympic Council of Asia, after the breakup of the Asian Games Federation.
  82. Complete the sentence about Asian Games with the correct year: Forty-six nations have participated in the Games, including Israel, which was excluded from the Games after its last participation in ___…
  83. Complete the sentence about Asian Games with the correct year: Since ______, it has been common for the host of the Asian Games to host the Asian Para Games held shortly after the end of the Games.
  84. Complete the sentence about Asian Games with the correct year: The inaugural Far Eastern Games were held in Manila in ______ with 6 participating nations.
  85. Complete the sentence about Bharat Ratna with the correct year: Following a ______ Supreme Court decision, the press communique announcing Bose's award was cancelled; it is the only time when the awar…
  86. Complete the sentence about Param Vir Chakra with the correct year: As of January ______, the medal has been awarded 21 times, of which 14 were posthumous and 16 arose from actions in Indo-Pakistani c…
  87. Complete the sentence about Param Vir Chakra with the correct year: Gold medals were awarded to Indian officers for the first time in ______, with the first recipient being Subedar Abdul Kader of the…
  88. Complete the sentence about Param Vir Chakra with the correct year: In ______ the Order of Merit was established by the then Governor-General of India, Lord William Bentinck.
  89. Complete the sentence about Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award with the correct year: In ______, sport shooter Abhinav Bindra, then aged 18, became the youngest recipient of the award.
  90. Complete the sentence about Nobel Prize with the correct year: The prizes were first awarded in ______, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
  91. Complete the sentence about Nobel Prize with the correct year: Alfred Nobel was born on 21 October ______ in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family of engineers.
  92. Complete the sentence about Nobel Prize with the correct year: In ______, Nobel purchased the Bofors iron and steel mill, which he made into a major armaments manufacturer.
  93. Complete the sentence about Nobel Prize with the correct year: On 10 December ______, Alfred Nobel died in his villa in San Remo, Italy, from a cerebral haemorrhage.
  94. Complete the sentence about C. V. Raman with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed the first Palit Professor of Physics by Ashutosh Mukherjee at the Rajabazar Science College under the Univers…
  95. Complete the sentence about Srinivasa Ramanujan with the correct year: In December ______, Ramanujan contracted smallpox, but recovered.
  96. Complete the sentence about Srinivasa Ramanujan with the correct year: On 1 October ______, Ramanujan was enrolled at the local school.
  97. Complete the sentence about Srinivasa Ramanujan with the correct year: Just before turning 10, in November ______, he passed his primary examinations in English, Tamil, geography, and arithmetic with…
  98. Complete the sentence about Jagadish Chandra Bose with the correct year: Established in ______, the institute was the first interdisciplinary research centre in Asia.
  99. Complete the sentence about Jagadish Chandra Bose with the correct year: In ______, he passed the entrance examination of the University of Dhaka and was admitted to St Xavier's College, Calcutta.
  100. Complete the sentence about Jagadish Chandra Bose with the correct year: In February ______, Bose married feminist and social worker Abala Bose.

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