UPSC EXAM HISTORY NOTES

FAIRS Goa carnival (February) –Goa In the south – west of India, in February, as the rigour and fasting of lent approach, the resi...

FESTIVAL / FAIRS OF INDIA The festivals in India manifest the living force pulsating in its culture. The Indian mind carved out three ...

(I)                 WESTERN INDIA (GUJARAT AND MAHARASHTRA) Rasa Nritya is considered t o be the form of Rasa Leela, which Krishna use...

(I)                    NORTH INDIA Kalri is an occasion when the peasants in north India propitiate the Vedic God Indra and pray for t...

FOLK DANCES Whereas classical dances tend to be subject to a definite order and a complicated system of gesture language, foot worked ...

Miscellaneous dances The major classical dance styles, as mentioned above, by no means exhaust the list of existing dance arts of India....

(I                MANIPURI     From legendary times the beautiful valley of Manipur in the far away north – eastern region of India main...