Khuallam is a famous dance of:

Correct — C. Khuallam is a Mizo dance and belongs to Mizoram. The name joins khual, guest, and lam, dance — it is the dance performed as invited guests enter the arena at a community ceremony.

Dancers move in a slow swaying step wrapped in the puandum, the traditional Mizo cloth, to the beat of gongs. There is no song: the gong rhythm alone carries it.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Bihar — Bihar has no dance of this name — its folk forms are Jat-Jatin, Jhijhiya and Bidesia, all from the Gangetic plain.
• (b)
  Andhra Pradesh — Andhra Pradesh answers to Kuchipudi, its classical form. Khuallam is a north-eastern hill dance with no Telugu-country tradition behind it.
• (d)
  Uttar Pradesh — Uttar Pradesh is associated with Kathak and with folk forms such as Charkula and Raslila, none of them Mizo.

Khuallam belongs to the Khuangchawi, the feast a Mizo of standing gives the whole village to earn public honour. Guest parties from other villages enter the ground dancing, which is exactly what the name records.

For the exam, treat north-eastern dances as a state-to-name list. The hard part is not folk against classical — it is telling neighbouring hill states apart when the names sound alike.

Key facts

• Khuallam is a dance of Mizoram, performed as guests enter a community ceremony.
• The name combines khual, meaning guest, with lam, meaning dance.
• Dancers wrap themselves in the puandum, a traditional Mizo cloth, and move to the beat of gongs.
• Cheraw, the bamboo dance, is Mizoram's other well-known folk form.

Common traps

• Reserving Mizoram for Cheraw alone and leaving Khuallam unplaced
• Sliding Khuallam over to Nagaland because both are north-eastern hill forms
• Reading 'famous dance' as classical and hunting among the classical forms

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