Read the information given below carefully and answer the question that follows:
(A) Bhavai is a dance form of Rajasthan
(B) Jatra is a dance form of West Bengal
(C) Dashavatara is a dance form of Goa
(D) Karayala is a dance form of Kerala
Choose the correct option:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A), (B) and (C) Only
Each statement pairs a folk performing art with a state; the question treats them all as dance forms, and several of them are folk theatre in which dance and music are part of the play.
(A) Bhavai is a dance form of Rajasthan Correct. In the Bhavai dance of Rajasthan, women dancers balance a tall stack of earthen pots on the head, often while dancing on the edge of a brass plate or on glass. (Gujarat has a folk theatre of the same name.)
(B) Jatra is a dance form of West Bengal Correct. Jatra is the popular open-air musical folk theatre of Bengal, which grew out of the processions and songs of the Bhakti movement; it is also performed in Odisha.
(C) Dashavatara is a dance form of Goa Correct. Dashavatara is the folk theatre of the Konkan and Goa, in which masked performers act out the ten incarnations of Vishnu.
(D) Karayala is a dance form of Kerala Incorrect. Karyala (printed here as Karayala) is the folk theatre of Himachal Pradesh, a night-long show of short humorous plays.