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Odisha Culture and Heritage

Environment & General Studies

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Overview

Odisha’s culture includes the Jagannath tradition, Odissi dance, distinctive crafts, textiles and festivals.

Key points

Rath Yatra at Puri and Kalinga Bali Yatra at Cuttack (Kartika Purnima) are major festivals.
Raja festival celebrates womanhood and the earth.
Pattachitra painting is centred at Raghurajpur.
Sambalpuri ikat textiles are famous.
Cuttack is known for silver filigree (tarakasi); Pipili for appliqué work.
Odisha’s Rasagola received a GI tag in 2019.

Explanation

Utkal Divas (1 April) marks statehood.
Chhau dance (Mayurbhanj) is on UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Tribal art includes Saura paintings.
Odia literature includes Sarala Mahabharata and works of Fakir Mohan Senapati.
Heritage sites include Konark, Puri, Lingaraj and Udayagiri caves.

Step by step

Identify the concept, method or fact asked.
Recall the definition, thinker, year or rule.
Apply it and eliminate extreme or mismatched options.

Examples

Silver filigree work of Odisha → Cuttack.
Appliqué craft village → Pipili.
Rasagola GI tag → 2019.

Traps and advanced points

Trap: Mixing Pipili and Raghurajpur crafts.
Trap: Wrong festival dates.
Trap: Forgetting tribal art.

Quick revision

Pattachitra (Raghurajpur).
Tarakasi (Cuttack), appliqué (Pipili).
Bali Yatra; Rasagola GI 2019.

Practice MCQs

Pattachitra painting of Odisha is centred at —
1. Pipili
2. Raghurajpur
3. Cuttack
4. Sambalpur
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Answer: (b) Raghurajpur. Raghurajpur near Puri.
Silver filigree (tarakasi) is associated with —
1. Cuttack
2. Puri
3. Pipili
4. Koraput
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Answer: (a) Cuttack. Cuttack is famous for tarakasi.
Appliqué work of Odisha is centred at —
1. Berhampur
2. Pipili
3. Raghurajpur
4. Bhubaneswar
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Answer: (b) Pipili. Pipili appliqué.
Kalinga Bali Yatra is held at Cuttack on —
1. Raja Sankranti
2. Kartika Purnima
3. Holi
4. Utkal Divas
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Answer: (b) Kartika Purnima. On Kartika Purnima.
The Raja festival celebrates —
1. womanhood and the earth
2. the new year
3. the monsoon’s end
4. harvest of wheat
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Answer: (a) womanhood and the earth. Raja honours womanhood and the earth.
Odisha’s Rasagola received a GI tag in —
1. 2017
2. 2019
3. 2021
4. 2015
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Answer: (b) 2019. GI in 2019.
Sambalpuri textiles are known for —
1. block printing
2. zari only
3. ikat
4. kalamkari
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Answer: (c) ikat. Tie-dye ikat weaving.
Chhau dance of Mayurbhanj is on —
1. UNESCO’s intangible heritage list
2. no list
3. the GI list only
4. the Eighth Schedule
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Answer: (a) UNESCO’s intangible heritage list. Chhau is UNESCO intangible heritage.
Saura paintings belong to —
1. a tribal tradition
2. Mughal miniatures
3. Bengal School
4. Company School
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Answer: (a) a tribal tradition. Saura tribal art.
Utkal Divas (1 April) marks —
1. the formation of Odisha province in 1936
2. independence
3. the Konark temple
4. the Paika rebellion
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Answer: (a) the formation of Odisha province in 1936. Odisha became a separate province on 1 April 1936.