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Slice the tribal termsRead the answer and worked solution →Gond or AhomRead the answer and worked solution →Sort nomads, tribes and castesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Tribes and nomads bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The Chera kingdom of Mahodayapuram, an early user of Malayalam in official records, was set up in which century?Read the answer and worked solution →The fourteenth-century Lilatilakam on grammar and poetics was composed in:Read the answer and worked solution →Jagannatha, literally lord of the world, worshipped at Puri is a name for:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Ganga ruler decided in the twelfth century to build the Purushottama Jagannatha temple at Puri?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1230, which king dedicated his kingdom to Jagannatha and called himself the deity's deputy?Read the answer and worked solution →The British in the nineteenth century called most of present-day Rajasthan:Read the answer and worked solution →The term kathak is derived from katha, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →The kathaks were originally a caste of:Read the answer and worked solution →Folk plays enacting the Radha-Krishna legends, which shaped Kathak, were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Kathak developed in two gharanas, one at Jaipur and the other at:Read the answer and worked solution →Under which last Nawab of Awadh did Kathak grow into a major art form?Read the answer and worked solution →After independence, Kathak was recognised as one of how many classical dance forms?Read the answer and worked solution →The earliest miniatures in western India illustrated which texts?Read the answer and worked solution →The bold and intense miniature style of the Himalayan foothills from the late seventeenth century is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Nadir Shah's conquest of Delhi in 1739 drove Mughal artists to the hills, leading to which school of painting?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Chinese traveller observed in the seventh century that Sanskrit-related languages were used across Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →Akbar conquered Bengal, forming the nucleus of the Bengal suba, in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Mangalakavyas of early Bengali literature literally mean:Read the answer and worked solution →The songs of Maynamati and Gopichandra belong to which Bengali literature?Read the answer and worked solution →Community leaders in newly settled south-eastern Bengal, revered as teachers and adjudicators, were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Terracotta temple decoration reached its height in Vishnupur, in which district of West Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →Which thirteenth-century Sanskrit text permitted Bengal Brahmanas to eat fish?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the classical dancesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Bengal wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the regional culture datesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the tribal terms

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Does not match the category
  1. Isobar
  2. Sonnet
  3. Fresco
  4. Nebula
Matches the category
  1. Tanda
  2. Jati
  3. Chaurasi
  4. Paik
  5. Khel
Instructions
Slice only the terms of tribes and nomads. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 7, Tribes, Nomads and Settled Communities._

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Gond or Ahom

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Upper category
Gond
Lower category
Ahom
Items
  1. Category
    Gond
    Item
    Garha
  2. Category
    Gond
    Item
    Chaurasi
  3. Category
    Gond
    Item
    Durgawati
  4. Category
    Gond
    Item
    Sangram
  5. Category
    Ahom
    Item
    Paik
  6. Category
    Ahom
    Item
    Khel
  7. Category
    Ahom
    Item
    Buranji
  8. Category
    Ahom
    Item
    Sib Singh
Instructions
Send each clue to the Gond track or the Ahom track.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 7, Tribes, Nomads and Settled Communities._

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Sort nomads, tribes and castes

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Items
  1. Group
    Nomad
    Item
    Banjara
  2. Group
    Nomad
    Item
    Tanda
  3. Group
    Nomad
    Item
    Gaddi
  4. Group
    Tribe
    Item
    Gond
  5. Group
    Tribe
    Item
    Bhil
  6. Group
    Tribe
    Item
    Chero
  7. Group
    Caste
    Item
    Jati
  8. Group
    Caste
    Item
    Rathakara
  9. Group
    Caste
    Item
    Rajput
Groups
  1. Item
    Nomad
  2. Item
    Tribe
  3. Item
    Caste
Instructions
Drop each clue onto nomads, tribes or caste groups.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 7, Tribes, Nomads and Settled Communities._

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