Chapter 9. The Making Of Regional Cultures History class 7 in English Medium ncert book solutions Chapter Review

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• In several regions, regional cultures developed around religious traditions.
• The local people made a wooden image of the deity which, originally a local God, came to be identified with Vishnu.
• Temple became the centre of pilgrimage.
• In the 19th century, the Rajasthan of today was called Rajputana by the British.
• There are many groups who call themselves Rajputs in Northern and Central India.
• Prithviraj Chauhan was one such ruler.
• Women had been given a heroic image since they committed sati or self-immolation.
• The heroic traditions of various regions also helped in the evolution of dance in several regions.
• One such dance was Kathak, which was evolved in Northern India. The Kathaks initially were a caste of story-tellers in North Indian temples.
• The legends of Radha-Krishna were enacted in folk plays known as rasalila.
• It integrated folk dance with the basic gestures of the kathak story-tellers.
• Music also developed into various forms like qawwali and khayal and new instruments like Sitar were invented.
• During this period, one more tradition which deserves our attention is the miniature painting. Miniatures are small sized paintings done in watercolour on cloth or paper.
• Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan hired highly skilled painters to illustrate their manuscripts in the Kitab Khana containing their accounts and poetry.
• When the Mughal empire started declining, new artistic tastes developed in the regional court of Deccan and Rajput rulers.
• One bold style of miniature painting was called Basohli.
• One of the most popular paintings of the Himalayas region was Bhanudatta’s Rasamanjari.
• The Kangra artists by mid-18th century infused a new life into miniature painting.
• Regional language is the language which a person speaks in a region.
• It is generally assumed that the Bengali language is spoken by people of Bengal.
• Bengali originated from Sanskrit but later on developed its own identity and literature.
• Early Bengali literature may be divided into two categories—The first includes translations from Sanskrit epics and the
• the second includes Nath literature.
• From the 16th century, people migrated in large numbers from less fertile western Bengal to the forested and marshy of south-eastern Bengal.
• With Mughal control over Bengal, the capital shifted to Dhaka. Officials received land grants. Mosques were set up.
• The early settlers got help from teachers called Pirs. They included saints or Sufis and prominent religious personalities.

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