HISTORY CHAPTER 3: OUR NON –MATERIAL HERITAGE STD V

Q1A.Indian music is played on a wide variety of instruments. Identify the following music instruments.

i) The oldest musical instrument

Veena

ii) The musical instrument which is a descendent from the instrument called the rabab.

Sarod

iii) The instrument with European origin.

Harmonium

iv) The instrument with European origin and is used in Carnatic music.

Violin

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v) Different types of drum: Tabla, Mridangam and the Dholak

Q1. B. Identify the different kind of dance forms. Which State do they belong to?

Dance Form: Manipuri Dance Form:

State of origin: Bharat Natyam

Manipur State of origin

Tamil Nadu

Dance Form: Dance Form

Odissi Kathak

State of Origin: State:

Orissa North India

Dance Form Dance Form

Kuchipudi Kathakali

State: State

Andhra Pradesh Kerala

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FOLK DANCES

Bhangra is from Punjab Bihu is from Assam

It is a harvest Dance It is also a harvest dance

Q1C.Fill in the blanks:

i) The famous Indian fabric is MULMUL it originates from Dhaka.ii) Dhaka muslin is so fine that it passes through a ring.iii) The fabric BROCADE originates from Benaras.iv) Brocade fabric was woven with real SILVER and GOLDEN threads.v) Drama music and art together are called the Performing Arts.vi) Bharata wrote the Natyashastra .vii) The Natya means art of acting and dancing.viii) Folk theatre is known by different names in different parts of the country, such as

Tamasha in Maharashtra,and Nautanki in North India, Jatra in Bengal and Therukuttu in Tamil Nadu.

ix) The classical music in the South is known as Carnatic music and in the North is called Hindustani Music.

x) Classical music is known as ragas.xi) The two epics are the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.xii) The stories like Jataka tales and Panchatantras are based on Buddha’s

Preaching and life.Chakra and Sushruta wrote books on Ayurveda.Aryabhatta was a mathematician who explained how eclipse happened and the movements of Earth.

Ayurveda was a system of medicines in which illnesses could be cured by using herbs and natural products.Q2. Answer the following questions.A](i) Explain why the oral tradition was important in India?

(ii) Who were the people who passed knowledge in this manner?

(i)In India knowledge and learning was passed orally from one generation to the next before it was written down.

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(ii)Only a few people knew how to write and read, so the oral tradition was very important in passing on the Heritage.The people who passed on the knowledge were teachers, story tellers, singers and puppeteers.

B] What is Guru Shishya tradition?

This means that a guru ---a teacher---has a few shishya ---students, to whom this knowledge is passed on orally.The Guru Shishya tradition is important in areas of learning, such as dance or philosophy.

C] Write in detail why water harvesting is important?In India , where Agriculture is the main occupation of the people it was, necessary to find ways of preserving or harvesting. Water is harvested so that we can get water for drinking and for growing crops even when there is a shortage of water.Today water is becoming scarce because of growing population and industries growing or rains failing therefore it has become important to harvest water.

D] Give two examples to show how water harvesting methods were developed to suit the environment.The two methods of Water Harvesting are:-Collecting the water in special large ponds called Kata. One such pond is the Rani sagar near Sambalpur.The second method was step well or baori which was used in dry areas like Rajasthan.Baoris were deep; they often covered the wells where water was approached by a series of steps.The depth of the well and the cover prevented evaporation in the dry climate.

Special large ponds called kata step well or baori

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E] Who were Bishnois and how did they protect nature?Bishnois were a group of people who lived in Western India. In the 18th century, over 300 Bishops died while trying to prevent cutting of trees

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