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Slice the culture wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Dance or paintingRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the regionsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Regional cultures bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A map of the subcontinent was made in 1154 by which Arab geographer?Read the answer and worked solution →When Minhaj-i-Siraj used Hindustan in the thirteenth century, he meant Punjab, Haryana and the lands between:Read the answer and worked solution →Minhaj-i-Siraj's Hindustan never included:Read the answer and worked solution →In the early sixteenth century, who used Hindustan for the geography, fauna and culture of the whole subcontinent?Read the answer and worked solution →The fourteenth-century poet who used the word Hind in a similar broad way was:Read the answer and worked solution →The medieval period studied covers roughly the years:Read the answer and worked solution →Which change made textual records increase dramatically in the medieval period?Read the answer and worked solution →Manuscripts were copied by hand because there was no:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Persian handwriting style is cursive and easy to read?Read the answer and worked solution →Ziyauddin Barani wrote his chronicle first in:Read the answer and worked solution →Which new irrigation technology appeared in the medieval period?Read the answer and worked solution →New foods arriving in the subcontinent in this period included:Read the answer and worked solution →The name Rajput derives from Rajaputra, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →The Kayasthas, who rose to importance in this period, were a caste of:Read the answer and worked solution →Jati rules were enforced by an assembly of elders called in some areas the:Read the answer and worked solution →A Sanskrit prashasti claimed Ghiyasuddin Balban ruled from Gauda to Gajjana. Gajjana is:Read the answer and worked solution →Ghiyasuddin Balban ruled Delhi from:Read the answer and worked solution →An empire spanning diverse regions, like that of the Cholas or Mughals, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Merchants and migrants first brought the teachings of the Quran to India in which century?Read the answer and worked solution →Learned theologians and jurists patronised by many rulers were the:Read the answer and worked solution →In the mid nineteenth century British historians divided Indian history into how many periods?Read the answer and worked solution →The British three-period division rested on the idea that the only important change was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the medieval arrivalsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Hindustan wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the thousand yearsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the culture words

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Does not match the category
  1. Isobar
  2. Ledger
  3. Piston
  4. Nebula
Matches the category
  1. Kathak
  2. Basohli
  3. Kangra
  4. Dochala
  5. Rasa lila
Instructions
Slice only the words of regional arts. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 9, The Making of Regional Cultures._

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Dance or painting

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Upper category
Dance
Lower category
Painting
Items
  1. Category
    Dance
    Item
    Kathak
  2. Category
    Dance
    Item
    Odissi
  3. Category
    Dance
    Item
    Rasa lila
  4. Category
    Dance
    Item
    Gharana
  5. Category
    Painting
    Item
    Basohli
  6. Category
    Painting
    Item
    Kangra
  7. Category
    Painting
    Item
    Miniature
  8. Category
    Painting
    Item
    Kishangarh
Instructions
Send each clue to the dance track or the painting track.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 9, The Making of Regional Cultures._

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Sort the regions

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Items
  1. Group
    Kerala
    Item
    Chera
  2. Group
    Kerala
    Item
    Malayalam
  3. Group
    Kerala
    Item
    Kathakali
  4. Group
    Orissa
    Item
    Jagannatha
  5. Group
    Orissa
    Item
    Puri
  6. Group
    Orissa
    Item
    Odissi
  7. Group
    Bengal
    Item
    Dochala
  8. Group
    Bengal
    Item
    Pirs
  9. Group
    Bengal
    Item
    Vishnupur
Groups
  1. Item
    Kerala
  2. Item
    Orissa
  3. Item
    Bengal
Instructions
Drop each clue onto Kerala, Orissa or Bengal.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 9, The Making of Regional Cultures._

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