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This is similar to the floor art, chowk-poorana, in Uttar Pradesh where pots are placed in the middle and the art is drawn around them in religious ceremonies. [30] In Uttar Pradesh, the alternative name is Sona Rakhna. [31] In the Punjab, the chowk square is drawn on the floor with flour and turmeric. Sometimes a swastika is also drawn in the ...
Nawabs of Awadh were fore-runners of this culture. [19] The region of Awadh in the state of Uttar Pradesh is usually considered to be the center of this culture. [20] [21] Allahabad, Lucknow, Kanpur, [22] [23] [24] Faizabad-Ayodhya, [21] [25] and Varanasi [26] [27] are a few of the many centers of this culture.
Bhojpuri is the second most spoken language of Uttar Pradesh, [2] it is spoken by almost 11% of the population. Urdu is prominent in Uttar Pradesh as Lucknow was once the centre of Indo-Persianate culture in north India. The language of Lucknow ("Lakhnavi Urdu") is a form of high literary Urdu.
He was born on 19 August 1907 at Dubey Chapra village in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh [3] in a traditional family famous for astrologers. His father Pandit Anamol Dwivedi was a learned Sanskrit scholar. Dwivedi had his early education until middle examination at his village school.
In spite of rapid deforestation and poaching of wildlife, a diverse flora and fauna continue to exist in the state. Uttar Pradesh is a habitat for 4.2% of all species of Algae recorded in India, 6.4% of Fungi, 6.0% of Lichens, 2.9% of Bryophytes, 3.3% of Pteridophytes, 8.7% of Gymnosperms, 8.1% of Angiosperms. [90]
Rahul Sankrityayan was born as Kedarnath Pandey, the eldest child in a Bhumihar Brahmin [5] family in the village of Pandaha in Azamgarh district on the 9th of April, 1893. [6] [7] His ancestral village was Kanaila Chakrapanpur, Azamgarh district, in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. [8]
Subhadra Chauhan was born into a Rajput family in Nihalpur village, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. [6] She initially studied in the Crosthwaite Girls' School in Prayagraj where she was senior to and friends with Mahadevi Verma and passed the middle-school examination in 1919.
Vidya Bharati (short for Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan) is the educational wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It runs one of the largest private network of schools in India, operating 12,000 schools with over 3.2 Million students, as of 2016 [1] [2] and has its registered headquarters in Lucknow with a functional headquarters in Delhi and a sub-office in Kurukshetra.