Pick up the wrong matching of the tribal community and their folk dances in…
2026
Pick up the wrong matching of the tribal community and their folk dances in Tripura State
Answer: D. Garo Community – Jhum Dance — State Public Service Commission General Awareness papers test whether a specific, officially documented dance is correctly credited to its tribal community —…
- A.
Tripuri Community – Lebang Dance
- B.
Reang Community – Hozagiri Dance
- C.
Chakma Community – Bizu Dance
- D.
Garo Community – Jhum Dance
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Correct answer: D
State Public Service Commission General Awareness papers test whether a specific, officially documented dance is correctly credited to its tribal community — as verified by the state's tourism, cultural, and ethnographic authorities — as against a broad descriptive label (such as a term for the jhum-cultivation dance cycle) that spans several different communities rather than uniquely identifying one.
Checking each pairing against documented tribal-dance associations:
Tripuri Community: the specifically documented dance is Lebang Boomani — performed by Tripuri men and women during the jhum cultivation season, while the paddy crop is in the ear stage, using split bamboo clappers to imitate the pursuit and capture of the lebang (locust-like) insect that threatens the ripening grain.
Reang Community: the specifically documented dance is Hozagiri — a balance dance in which young women dance atop an earthen pitcher, with a bottle on the head and a lit earthen lamp in hand, with movement confined to the waist and hip while the rest of the body stays steady.
Chakma Community: the specifically documented dance is Bizu dance — performed by Chakma men and women over the three days of the April Bizu festival that marks the Chakma new year.
Garo Community: the specifically documented, officially named dance is Wangala — a post-harvest thanksgiving dance in which men and women form separate parallel lines and move to drums, gongs, and horns; "Jhum dance" is instead a broad descriptive label applied to shifting-cultivation dances of several North-East Indian communities, not a name uniquely tied to the Garo community.
State tourism/cultural documentation and government ethnographic records consistently credit Lebang Boomani, Hozagiri, and Bizu as the community-specific named dances of the Tripuri, Reang, and Chakma respectively, while treating "jhum dance" as a shared descriptive term for the shifting-cultivation dance cycle rather than the Garo community's distinctly documented dance, which is Wangala.
The pairing that does not hold is Garo Community – Jhum Dance, since the community's own specifically documented dance is Wangala, not a generic "Jhum Dance".