indian heritage quiz

1. S B J

2. ID
• he traveled to the Indian subcontinent and
authored Tarikh Al-Hind (History of India) after
exploring the Hindu faith practised in India. He
was given the title "founder of Indology".

3. Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
Al-Birunī

4. ID
• Abu Sa'id al-Dharir al-Jurjani ( ‫الضرير‬ ‫سعيد‬ ‫ابو‬
‫الجرجاني‬), also x was a 9th-
century Persian mathematician and astronom
er from Gurgan (Jurjan), Iran. He wrote a
treatise on geometrical problems and another
on the drawing of the meridian

5. GURGANI

6. ID
• x was a medieval Moroccan traveler and
scholar, who is widely recognised as one of
the greatest travelers of all time. He is known
for his extensive travels, accounts of which
were published in his Travels (Rihla)

7. IBN BATUTA

8. ID
• X was a Persian Muslim
mathematician, physicist and optics engineer
of the Islamic Golden Age associated with
the Abbasid court of Baghdad.

9. Ibn Sahl

10. What is the significance of these notes

11. The Hyderabadi Rupee was the
currency of the Hyderabad
State from 1918 to 1959

12. id
• HOW do we better known as how Arjumand
Banu Begum (1593–1631), who is also known
as X

13. Mumtaaz mahal

14. id

15. Mirabai ‘s temple

16. id
• Literally translated,X means "Old Fort". An
alternate etymology gives the name as coming
from "Yonagadh", literally "City of
the Yona (Greeks)," referring to the ancient
inhabitants of the city under the Indo-Greek
Kingdom. It is also known as "Sorath", the
name of the earlier Princely State of X

17. Junagadh (gujarat)

18. id

19. TOmb of Tomb of Mahabat
Khan(JUNAGADH)

20. ID
• X Peta, the traditional indigenous turban worn
by the erstwhile rulers of x, is worn by men in
some traditional ceremonies.

21. Mysore Peta

22. ID THE MOSQUE

23. TIPU SULTAN MOSQUE (kolkata)

24. id
(English translation: “Swinging Palace”), is a large
meeting hall, or durbar in the ancient Indian city
of Mandu, Madhya Pradesh.

25. Hindola mahal (mandu)

26. id

27. • The fort has four ornamental gates, known
as Kakatiya Kala Thoranam, that originally
formed the entrances to a now ruined great
Shiva temple. The Kakatiyan arch has been
adopted and officially incorporated into
the Emblem of Telangana after the state
bifurcation

28. id
It best captures the medieval romance of
Mandu. It is built during rule of Mandu Sultan
Ghiyas-ud-din Khilji. He ruled over Mandu for
31 years and was believed to be the pleasure
seeker who gave emphasis to women and
songs in his ruling life. He was having a large
harem (about 15000 women) for which he
needs a proper building to accommodation of
women.

29. Jahaz mahal (mandu)

30. id
• X is a dyeing technique used to pattern textiles
that employs resist dyeing on the yarns prior
to dyeing and weaving the fabric.

31. Ikkat sarees

32. id

33. Maheshwar saries

34. id

35. Tanchoi sarees

36. id

37. kalamkari

38. id

39. pattachitra

40. id
• X made for special and ceremonial occasions
like weddings and birth of a son, fully covered
fabric is called Baghs ("garden") and scattered
work on the fabric is called "adha bagh" (half
garden). This whole work is done with white
or yellow silk floss on cotton khaddarh and
starts from the center on the fabric called
"chashm-e-bulbul" and spreads to the whole
fabric.

41. phulkari

42. id
• It is GI tag product
• There are references to Indian X work as early as
3rd century BC by Megasthenes, who mentioned
the use of flowered muslins by Indians. There is
also a tale that mentions how a traveler taught X
to a peasant in return of water to drink. However,
the Noor Jahan story is the most popular of the
lot. X began as a type of white-on-white (or
whitework) embroidery

43. chikankari

44. id
• X its name from that of the Goddess
Samalei (Odia: ସମଲେଇ ଠାକୁରାଣୀ), who is regarded as
the reigning deity of the region.The region in which X
city is located was also known as Hirakhanda. from
ancient times.In history, it has also been known as
'Sambalaka'. Claudius Ptolemy has described the place
as "Sambalak". According to Jean-Baptiste Tavernier,
the French traveller, and Edward Gibbon, the English
historian, diamonds were exported to Rome from
Sambalpu
• Leaning temple of huma is located here

45. sambalpur

46. id
• is the former capital and the second largest
city in the eastern Indian state of Odisha
• The name of the city is an anglicised form
of Katak which literally means The Fort, a
reference to the ancient Barabati Fort around
which the city initially developed.
• X is also known as the Millennium City as well
as the Silver City due to its history of 1000
years and famous silver filigree works

47. cuttack

48. id
• This highly skilled art form is more than 500
years old and is traditionally done by local
artisans on the Eastern shores of
Odisha. Presently, the silver filigree workers
are largely from the district of Cuttack, where
the art flourishes

49. tarakshi

50. id
• The name comes from Persian: ‫پشمينه‬X, meaning
"made from wool" and literally translates to "Soft
Gold" in Kashmiri.
The wool comes from four distinct breeds of the
Cashmere goat; namely the Changthangi or Kashmir
X goat from the Changthang plateau in Kashmir
region, the Malra from Kargil area in Kashmir
region, the Chegu from Himachal Pradesh in
northern India and Pakistan, and Chyangara or
Nepalese Pashmina goat from Nepal

51. pashmina

52. Id
• X a Persian word meaning "king of fine wools") is
the name given to a specific kind of shawl, which
is woven with the down hair of the Tibetan
antelope (chiru), by master craftsmen and
women of Kashmir, Northern India.
• X is so fine that a large shawl can be passed
through a wedding ring, leading to them also
being known as 'ring shawls
• Under Emperor Akbar, the imperial wardrobe
began to patronise Tus or X on a large scale.

53. shahtoosh

54. id
• X is a fabric made of silk and cotton, which is
grown locally in Aurangabad. X was brought to
Aurangabad in the reign of Mohammad
Tughlaq, when he had shifted his capital from
Delhi to Daulatabad, Aurangabad. The word X
originated from Persian word Hum-ruh which
means 'similar'. X is a replication of Kum-
khwab, which was woven with pure golden
and silver threads in olden days, and was
meant for the royal families.

55. himroo

56. id
• X is a pot filled with hot embers used
by Kashmiris and Himachalis beneath their
traditional clothing to keep the chill at
bay, which is also regarded as a work of art.
Kashmir, it is normally kept inside
the Phiran (Overcoat type garment), the
Kashmiri cloak, or inside a blanket.If a person
is wearing a jacket, it may be used as a hand
warmer

57. kangri

58. id
• X (Persian for "emperor's wool") refers to a
type of shawl made from Baby Cashmere
wool obtained from select Inner Mongolian
goat herds and has an average fibre diameter
of 13-13.8 micrometres.X shawls are hand
spun, woven on only hand-looms and
embroidered by hand in Kashmir,
northern India; and made from fine cashmere
fibre. It is textured and processed exactly
as Shahtoosh.

59. shahmina

60. • X known as the Grand Old Man of India, was
a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader,
and an early Indian political and social leader
• His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in
India brought attention to the draining of
India's wealth into Britain.

61. Dadabhai Naoroji

62. id
• X was an Indian barrister and was the first
president of Indian National Congress. He was
the first Indian to contest the election for
the British House of Commons although he
lost the election. He made two unsuccessful
attempts to enter the British parliament.

63. Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee (or
Umesh Chandra Banerjee)

64. id
• (10 November 1848 – 6 August 1925) was one of the
earliest Indian political leaders during the British Raj.
He founded the Indian National Association, one of the
earliest Indian political organizations, and later became
a senior leader of the Indian National Congress.He also
organised two sessions of Indian National
Conference in 1883 and 1885.Surendranath Banerjee
and Anandamohan Bose were main architect of Indian
National Conference.X also founded Indian National
Liberation Federation. He was also known by
the sobriquet Rashtraguru.He was editor of "The
Bengali" newspaper.

65. Sir Surendranath Banerjee

66. id
• also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India, was an Indian
independence activist and poet. X served as the first governor of
the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949; the first
woman to become the governor of an Indian state. She was the second
woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925
and the first Indian woman to do so
• She also helped to establish the Women's Indian Association (WIA) in 1917
• her collection of poems entitled "The Feather of The Dawn" was edited
and published posthumously in 1961 by her daughter Padmaja.
• began writing at the age of twelve. Her Persian play, Maher Muneer,
impressed the Nawab of Hyderabad
• In 1905, her first collection of poems, named "The Golden Threshold" was
published.
• She also received ‘”kaiser I hind “medal

67. Sarojini Naidu (born as Sarojini
Chattopadhyay)

68. id
• X is known as the 'Father of Revolutionary
Thoughts' in India and was one of the freedom
fighters of India. He is also known as Bengal
tiger

69. Bipin Chandra Pal

70. id
• born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, was
an Indian nationalist, teacher, social
reformer, lawyer and an independence
activist. He was the first leader of the Indian
Independence Movement. The British colonial
authorities called him "Father of the Indian
unrest." He was also conferred with the title
of "Lokmanya", which means "accepted by the
people (as their leader)".[2]

71. Bal gangadhar tilak

72. • X was editor of Arya Gazette,
• He founded Servants of the People Society, a
non-profit welfare organisation, in Lahore,
which shifted based to Delhi after partition,
and has branches in many parts of India
• was an Indian Punjabi author and politician
who is chiefly remembered as a leader in
the Indian Independence movement. He was
popularly known as Punjab Kesari

73. Lala lajpat rai