When was the Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy established?

Correct — A. The Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy at Imphal was established in 1954, and it is the national centre for training in Manipuri dance and its allied music.

It is a constituent unit of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, which runs it directly rather than merely funding it.

1954 is a useful year to anchor: the Sahitya Akademi and the Lalit Kala Akademi were both founded in that same year, so the Imphal academy sits inside a wave of cultural institution-building you already know → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

• (b)
  1951 — 1951 belongs to other firsts — the first Asian Games at New Delhi and the start of the First Five-Year Plan — and not to the Imphal academy, which dates from 1954.
• (c)
  1952 — 1952 is the year of the government resolution that created the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the parent body. The academy at Imphal came two years after that resolution.
• (d)
  1953 — 1953 is when the Sangeet Natak Akademi was formally inaugurated. Candidates who remember that date attach it to the Imphal academy, which was established the following year.

The Sangeet Natak Akademi is India's national academy for music, dance and drama. Besides giving awards and fellowships, it runs training institutions of its own as constituent units.

Two of those units are worth knowing by name: the Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy at Imphal for Manipuri dance, and Kathak Kendra at New Delhi for Kathak.

Manipuri is one of the classical dance forms recognised by the Akademi, and the Imphal academy is where its Ras Leela repertoire, its Pung drumming and its singing tradition are taught as a single curriculum.

Key facts

• The Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy was established in 1954 and is located at Imphal.
• It is a constituent unit of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's national academy of music, dance and drama.
• The Sangeet Natak Akademi was created by a government resolution in 1952 and formally inaugurated in January 1953.
• The Sahitya Akademi and the Lalit Kala Akademi were both founded in 1954.

Common traps

• Answering 1953, the Sangeet Natak Akademi's inauguration year, in place of 1954.
• Confusing the Imphal academy with the National Institute of Kathak Dance, whose founding year is 1964.

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