Phulmani's India
True or False Question on Phulmani's India | Class Five | .......................................................................
1. Phulmani is a Santhal girl.
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2. Her house is in a village.
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3. There are beautiful pictures painted on the wall both outside and inside her house.
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5. All her neighbours have painted on their doorways and interiors.
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6. There are pictures of trees, flowers, and birds on the walls and floors.
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7. Phulmani, like her elders, loves to paint on the mud walls.
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8. Her teachers told her that even in ancient India, people used to paint inside the caves and on the rocks of hills.
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9. The rock paintings of Bhimbetka are more than twenty thousand years old.
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10. They are red, white, green, or yellow in colour.
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11. Phulmani has never been to Bhimbetka to see the rock paintings of ancient men.
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12. But she has heard stories about the famous rock paintings from her teacher.
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13. One day, her teacher showed her a picture.
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14. She came to know that it was the picture of a very famous cave painting of our country.
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15. Do you want to see that painting? Here it is: This is one of the paintings found in the Ajanta caves.
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16. It is a fresco.
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17. Almost two thousand years ago, some great Indian artists painted inside the caves of Ajanta and Ellora.
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18. Our country is the home to many religions.
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19. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism appear together in the sculptures of Ellora.
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20. Down the ages many great artists painted inside many other temples and churches of our country.
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21. Little Phulmani is surprised to know that many of the Indian dance forms started within the temples.
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22. Phulmani is a natural dancer.
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23. She loves to dance to the rhythm of the drum like all the other members of her community.
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24. Her teacher said that folk dance is a popular art form among the various communities of India.
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25. The Punjabis love the Bhangra dance.
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26. In the same way, Dandiya is popular in Gujarat, Bihu in Assam, and Chhau in West Bengal.
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27. Phulmani loves to watch Chhau dance performed during festivals.
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28. The performers wear masks.
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29. They shake their heads and jump in the air in harmony with music.
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30. Phulmani always cries out in joy at the end of a Chhau dance performance.
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31. Last Sunday little Phulmani went to see a jatra with her parents.
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32. Phulmani was thrilled to see the jatra.
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33. The next day when she narrated the story of the performance to the class, her teacher said that Jatra is actually a kind of folk theatre.
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34. This kind of theatre is performed under different names in different parts of our country.
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35. It is called tamasha in Maharashtra, nautanki in North India, and jatra in Bengal.
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36. Most of these folk theatres are based on mythological incidents or characters.
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37. India has a rich heritage of classical dance.
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38. There are many classical dance forms, and each deals with some mythological narrative.
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39. The dancers wear colourful dresses and dance in harmony with music.
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40. Dramatics is an essential part of the Indian classical dance tradition.
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41. Kathak is a dance of North India, while Bharatnatyam, Mohiniattyam, Kuchipuri, and Kathakali are all from South India.
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42. Manipuri and Odissi dance are dance forms of Eastern India.
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43. Such a wide variety of dance forms cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
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44. Dance and music have always been integral to Indian culture.
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45. Phulmani has a sweet voice.
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46. She believes that she can sing in harmony with musical instruments like sitar, tabla, sarengi, drum, and so on.
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47. Phulmani came to know that the Indian kings and rulers patronized classical music and dance in their courts.
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48. Emperor Akbar loved to listen to the songs of Tansen.
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49. Our country is so big that we have many different styles of classical music like Hindustani and Carnatic.
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50. Each of these styles grew in temples and developed down the ages.
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51. Phulmani is proud to be an Indian.
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52. She has heard that our country is full of great monuments, forts, and wonderful architecture.
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53. She has seen the picture of the Taj Mahal.
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54. It is one of the seven wonders of the world.
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55. The fort at Agra and the Red Fort in Delhi are also worth seeing.
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56. The huge gateway or Buland Darwaza, built by Emperor Akbar, at Fatehpur Sikri is also among the monuments that Phulmani wishes to see.
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57. She hopes that someday she will be able to travel all over India and see all the fascinating monuments.
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