Link of Morning Expected Question: https://youtube.com/live/Sb7RgjGUgAk?

feature=share

Gharana Related Personalities

Kirana Gharana Abdul Karim Khan, Abdul Wahid Khan, Firoz Dastur, Gangubai
hungle, Dr Parbha Atre

Patiala Gharana Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Bade Fateh Ali Khan and Ali Bakhsh

va
Mewati Pandit Jasraj

Gwalior Vishnu paluskar, Nathu khan

ta
Jaipur-Atrauli Kishori Amonkar, Mallikarjun Mansur

Agra Gharana Ustad latafat Hussain, Mohsin Niazi, C R Vyas and Vijay Kitchlu

as
Maihar Gharana Baba Allauddin Khan

Bettiah Gharana Indra Kishore Mishra

iv
Year
Sr
Name Award Awarded Field
Dr. Subbulakshmi Bharat Ratna 1998 Carnatic style of music
an

Pandit Ravi
Bharat Ratna 1999 Sitar maestro
Shankar

Bismillah Khan Bharat Ratna 2001 Shehnai

Am

Pandit Bhimsen
Bharat Ratna 2009 Kirana Gharana
Joshi

Birju Maharaj Padma Vibhushan 1986 Kathak

Ustad Amjad ali

Padma Vibhushan 2001 Sarod
khan

Allauddin khan Padma Vibhushan 1971 Sarod

Gangubai Hangal Padma Vibhushan 2002 Kirana Gharana

Sonal Mansingh Padma Vibhushan 2003 Bharatnatyam

Yamini Bharatnatyam and

Padma Vibhushan 2016
Krishnamurthy Kuchipudi

Uday Shankar Padma Vibhushan 1971 Choreographer

Kishori Amonkar Padma Vibhushan 2002 Vocalist

Padma Bhushan, 1990 Hindustani classical

Pt. Jasraj
Padma Vibhushan, 2000 music

va
Pandit Shivkumar Hindustani classical
Padma Vibhushan 2001
Sharma music

ta
Balwant Moreshwar Writer and
Padma Vibhushan 2019
Purandare theater

as
Teejan Bai Padma Vibhushan 2019 Padwani Folk dance

Mrinalini Sarabhai Padma Bhushan, 1992 Bharatnatyam

iv
Padma Bhushan 2013,
Kanak Rele Bharatnatyam
Padma Shri 1990
Sr
Astad deboo Padma Shri 2007 Kathak
an

Q1. Who among the following is known as 'Sarod

Samrat' in Indian Classical Music?
Am

(a) Pandit Ravishankar Prasad

(b) Aamir Ali Khan - [Sare Rang = Sarangi ]
(c) Amjad Ali Khan
(d) Kishan Maharaj
निम्नलिखित में से किसे भारतीय शास्त्रीय संगीत में 'सरोद सम्राट' के नाम से जाना जाता
है ?
(a) पंडित रविशंकर प्रसाद
(b) आमिर अली खान
(c) अमजद अली खान
(d) किशन महाराज
Ans: c
● Amjad Ali Khan is known as Sarod Samrat.
● Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Brijnarayan and
Chandan Rai were the prominent sarod players.
● Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar is also known as the 'Godfather of
World Music'.
● Pandit Ravi Shankar was the first Indian who won the Grammy Award

va
in the Best World Music Album category for his album 'The Living
Room Sessions-Part-1'.

ta
Q2. Who among the following was the first Indian to
win the Grammy Award?
(a) Pandit Ravi Shankar
as
iv
(b) Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma
(c) Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Sr
(d) Ustad Zakir Hussain
निम्नलिखित में से कौन ग्रैमी परु स्कार जीतने वाले पहले भारतीय थे?
(a) पंडित रविशंकर
(b) पंडित शिव कुमार शर्मा
an

(c) पंडित विश्व मोहन भट्ट

(d) उस्ताद जाकिर हुसनै
Ans: a
Am

Solution:
● Ravi Shankar (Sitarist). He was the first Indian to win a Grammy for
'West Meets East', the 1968 album with American violinist Yehudi
Menuhin.
● Awards :- Bharat Ratna (1999), Padma Vibhushan (1981), Padma
Bhushan (1967), Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1962), Sangeet
Natak Akademi Fellowship (1975), Kalidas Samman (1987-88).
● Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (santoor).
● Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Mohan veena).
 ● Ustad Zakir Hussain (tabla player).

Q3. Abdul Karim Khan was the exponent of which

school of Hindustani Music?
(a) Jaipur Gharana
(b) Gwalior Gharana

va
(c) Delhi Gharana
(d) Kirana Gharana
अब्दलु करीम खान हिंदस्
ु तानी संगीत के किस विधा के प्रतिपादक थे?

ta
(a) जयपरु घराना
(b) ग्वालियर घराना
(c) दिल्ली घराना
(d) किराना घराना
Ans: d
as
iv
Solution:
● Abdul Karim Khan was the founder and exponent of the Kirana
Sr
Gharana school of Hindustani music.
● He introduced Hindustani Khayal singing and Indian classical music.
● Jaipur gharana (founder: Alladiya Khan).
● Gwalior Gharana (oldest gharana; founder: Haddu Khan, Hassu Khan
an

and Nathu Khan).

● Delhi gharana (founder: Hazrat Ameer Khusro).
Am

Q4. Who among the following classical dancers was

rewarded with the Padma Vibhushan Award in
2003?
(a) Sonal Mansingh
(b) Kumudini Lakhia
(c) Shovana Narayan
(d) Sunayana Hazarilal
निम्नलिखित शास्त्रीय नर्तकों में से किसको 2003 में पद्म विभष
ू ण परु स्कार से परु स्कृत
किया गया था?
(a) सोनल मानसिंह
(b) कुमदिु नी लाखिया
(c) शोभना नारायण
(d) सनु यना हजारीलाल
Ans: a

va
Solution:
● Bharatanatyam and Odissi dancer Sonal Mansingh was awarded the
Padma Vibhushan Award in 2003.

ta
● Awards and honors: Padma Bhushan (1992), Sangeet Natak
Akademi Award (1987), Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award (1991), Indira
Priyadarshini Award (1994), Madhya Pradesh Government's Kalidas
Samman (2006).

as
● Shovana Narayan, Kumudini Lakhia and Sunayana Hazar - Kathak
iv
dancer).
Sr
Q5. Who among the following was the guru of Pandit
Ravi Shankar ?
an

(a) Bismillah Khan

(b) Amjad Ali Khan
(c) Ali Akbar Khan - Alla hu Akbar - [Sarod] Sare Gaate hain [Maihar
Am

Ghrna]
(d) Allaudin Khan - Allah o Akbar - [Sard]
निम्नलिखित में से कौन पंडित रविशंकर के गरु
ु थे?
(a) बिस्मिल्लाह खान
(b) अमजद अली खान
(c) अली अकबर खान
(d) अलाउद्दीन खान
Ans: d
Solution:
 ● Allauddin Khan (Sarod player) was the guru of Pandit Ravi Shankar.
● He was the court musician for the Maharaja of Maihar.
● He was the founder of modern Maihar gharana.
● He was awarded the Padma Bhushan (1958) and the Padma
Vibhushan (1971), Sangeet Natak Akademi award and Sangeet
Natak Akademi Fellowship (1954).
● Bismillah Khan (Shehnai player);
● Amjad Ali Khan (Sarod player);

va
● Ali Akbar Khan (Sarod player; Maihar Gharana).

ta
Q6. In which state is the Maihar court where Baba
Allauddin Khan was a musician?
(a) Tripura
(b) Uttar Pradesh
as
iv
(c) Madhya Pradesh
(d) Chhattisgarh
मैहर दरबार किस राज्य में है जहाँ बाबा अलाउद्दीन खान संगीतकार थे?
Sr
(a) त्रिपरु ा
(b) उत्तर प्रदे श
(c) मध्य प्रदे श
an

(d) छत्तीसगढ़
Ans: c
Solution:
Am

● Maihar State (princely state) was located in today's Madhya Pradesh

state of India.
● Baba Allauddin Khan (Sarod player) laid the foundation of Maihar
Gharana and became the court musician for the Maharaja of Maihar.
● Award and Honors: Padma Bhushan (1958), Padma Vibhushan
(1971), Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (1954).
Q7. Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi dancer Yamini
Krishnamurthy was awarded which of the following
awards in 2016.
(a) Padma Bhushan
(b) Padma Shri
(c) Tagore Puraskar
(d) Padma Vibhushan

va
भरतनाट्यम और कुचिपड़ ु ी नत्ृ यांगना यामिनी कृष्णमर्ति
ू को 2016 में निम्नलिखित में
से किस परु स्कार से सम्मानित किया गया?
(a) पद्म भष ू ण

ta
(b) पद्म श्री
(c) टै गोर परु स्कार

as
(d) पद्म विभष ू ण
Ans: d
Solution:
iv
● Padma Vibhushan, Padma Shri (1968), Padma Bhushan (2001),
"Natya Shastra" award by Shambhavi School of Dance (2014).
Sr
● Book -A Passion for Dance: My Autobiography.

Q8. Who among the following won a Padma

an

Vibhushan award in 1971?

(a) Rajeev Narayan
Am

(b) S Swaminathan
(c) Devjani Chaliha
(d) Uday Shankar
निम्नलिखित में से किसने वर्ष 1971 में पद्म विभष
ू ण परु स्कार जीता था?
(a) राजीव नारायण
(b) एस स्वामीनाथन
(c) दे वजानी चालिहा
(d) उदय शंकर
Ans: d
Solution:
● Uday Shankar (fusion style) was the father of modern dance in India.
He created the dance form (Hi-dance). Awards and honours: Sangeet
Natak Akademi award (1960), Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
(1962), Padma Vibhushan (1971), Desikottama, Visva-Bharati
University (1975).

va
Q9. Which of the following Gharanas does Padma
Bhushan Kishori Amonkar belong to?

ta
(a) Gwalior
(b) Kirana

as
(c) Patiala
(d) Jaipur - Atrauli
पद्म भष ू ण किशोरी अमोनकर निम्नलिखित में से किस घराने से संबधि
ं त हैं?
iv
(a) ग्वालियर
(b) किराना
(c) पटियाला
Sr
(d) जयपरु - अतरौली
Ans: d
Solution:
an

Kishori Amonkar was an Indian classical vocalist, belonging to the Jaipur

gharana. She was a performer of the classical genre khyal and the light
classical genres thumri and bhajan. Awards and Honors: Padma Bhushan
Am

(1987), and Padma Vibhushan (2002), Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

(1985) and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2009).

Q10. Guru Nileshwar Mukharjee is the exponent of

which of the following Indian classical dance forms?
(a) Sattriya
(b) Manipuri
(c) Odissi
(d) Kathak
गरुु नीलेश्वर मख
ु र्जी निम्नलिखित में से किस भारतीय शास्त्रीय नत्ृ य शैली के प्रतिपादक
हैं?
(a) सत्त्रिया
(b) मणिपरु ी
(c) ओडिसी
(d) कथक

va
Ans: b
Solution:
Manipuri dancers: Guru Nileshwar Mukherjee, Guru Bipin Singha, Guru

ta
Senarik Rajkumar, Guru Chandrakanta Singha, Guru Nilmadhab
Mukharjee, Guru Haricharan Singha, Bibhaboti Devi, Kalabati Devi, Preeti
Patel, Tamanna Rahman, etc. Two classical divisions of Manipuri dance are

as
Jagoi and Cholom. Chief instruments used in the dance are the drum and
the flute.
iv
Sr
Q11. Abdul Karim Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan were
the founders of the ______gharana.
(a) Jaipur - Atrauli
an

(b) Gwalior
(c) Agra
(d) Kirana
Am

अब्दलु करीम खान और अब्दल ु वाहिद खान ______घराने के संस्थापक थे।

(a) जयपरु - अतरौली
(b) ग्वालियर
(c) आगरा
(d) किराना
Ans: d
Solution:
Abdul Karim Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan were the founders of the Kirana
Gharana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Feature - mastery of
slow-tempo ragas, Sargam, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, and Gangubai Hangal.
Gwalior Gharana Gharana (Nathu Khan and Vishnu Palushkar). Agra
Gharana (Rangeela Gharana, a mix of Khyal and Dhrupad styles, Mohsin
Khan Niazi and Vijay Kichlu)

Q12. Who was hailed as the 'Tansen of the 20th

century'?

va
(a) Ustad Abdul Karim Khan
(b) Ustad Faiyaz Khan

ta
(c) Ustad Amir Khan
(d) Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
'20वीं सदी का तानसेन' किसे कहा जाता है ?
(a) उस्ताद अब्दल

as
ु करीम खान
(b) उस्ताद फ़ैयाज़ खान
iv
(c) उस्ताद अमीर खान
(d) उस्ताद बड़े गलु ाम अली खान
Sr
Ans: d
Solution:
Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (Patiala gharana). Awards - Sangeet Natak
Akademi Award (1962), Sangeet Natak Akademi fellow (1967), Padma
an

Bhushan Award (1962). Ustad Abdul Karim Khan (founder of the Kairana
gharana of classical music). Ustad Faiyaz Khan (exponent of the Agra
gharana). Ustad Amir Khan (founder of the Indore gharana of Classical
Am

Music).

Q13. Which Gharana was propounded by Bade

Fateh Ali Khan and Ali Baksh Jarnail Khan?
(a) Gwalior Gharana
(b) Agra Gharana
(c) Patiala Gharana
(d) Bhendi Bazaar Gharana
किस घराने का प्रतिपादन बड़े फतेह अली खान और अली बख्श जरनैल खान ने किया
था?
(a) ग्वालियर घराना
(b) आगरा घराना
(c) पटियाला घराना
(d) भें डी बाजार घराना
Ans: c

va
Solution:
Patiala Gharana. Malika Pukhraj, Gauhar Jan, Ghulam Ali

ta
Gwalior Gharana Ghulam Hassan Shaggan, Vasundhara Komkali,
Narayanrao Bodas, Sunanda Patnaik. Tansen belonged to Gwalior
Gharana.

as
[shagun chadhate hain Narayan ko Vasundhara par rakh ke]
iv
Agra Gharana : Yaqoob Hussain Khan, Yusuf Hussain Khan, Khurshid
Hussain Khan, Shamim Ahmed Khan, Ghulam Rasool Khan.
Sr
Bhendi Bazaar Gharana : Pandit Shivkumar Shukla, Ramesh Nadkarni,
T.D. Janorikar.
an

Q14. Bhajan Sopori, a famous musician, is associated with which musical instrument?
(a) Sarod
(b) Shehnai
Am

(c) Santoor
(d) Sitar
प्रसिद्ध संगीतकार भजन सोपोरी किस संगीत वाद्ययंत्र से सम्बंधित हैं?
(a) सरोद
(b) शहनाई
(c) संतरू
(d) सितार
Ans: c
Solution:
Santoor. Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1992), Padma Shri in 2004, Baba
Allauddin Khan Award (2009). Notable players: Ulhas Bapat, Bhattacharya,
Rahul Sharma, Shivkumar Sharma. Sarod players Wajahat Khan Arnab
Chakrabarty, Rajeeb Chakraborty, Prattyush Banerjee, Aayush Mohan.
Shehnai players - Anant Lal, Bismillah Khan, S. Ballesh, Ali Ahmed
Hussain Khan, Raghunath Prasanna etc. Sitar players - Pandit Ravi
Shankar, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, Annapurna Devi,

va
Q15. Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan belongs to
which Gharana?

ta
(a) Kirana Gharana

as
(b) Gwalior Gharana
(c) Dagar Gharana
(d) Talwandi Gharana
iv
सरोद वादक अमजद अली खान का संबध
ं किस घराने से हैं?
(a) किराना घराना
(b) ग्वालियर घराना
Sr
(c) डागर घराना
(d) तलवंडी घराना
Ans. a
an
Am