SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 25 September 2024, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 14 of 100

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Which award was started by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1980 to the exponents of Hindustani classical music?

(a)Tansen Samman
(b)Kishore Kumar Samman
(c)Iqbal Samman
(d)Kumar Gandharva Samman

Answer

Why

Correct — A. The Tansen Samman is Madhya Pradesh's national award for Hindustani classical music, instituted by the state government in 1980.

It is conferred at the Tansen Samaroh, the music festival held each year at Gwalior, where Tansen's tomb stands. That is why the award carries his name and why the state, not the Centre, gives it.

The stem fixes three markers — Madhya Pradesh, 1980, Hindustani classical music. Option (a) matches all three.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Kishore Kumar Samman — Kishore Kumar Samman is Madhya Pradesh's national award for cinema — acting, direction, lyric writing, screenplay — so it sits in film, not in classical music.
(c)
Iqbal Samman — Iqbal Samman is Madhya Pradesh's national award for Urdu writing. It belongs to literature, and nothing in the stem points to letters.
(d)
Kumar Gandharva Samman — Kumar Gandharva Samman is the name trap, because Kumar Gandharva was himself a Hindustani vocalist. It is a separate Madhya Pradesh honour, and the 1980 award for exponents of Hindustani classical music is the Tansen Samman.

Concept

Madhya Pradesh runs a family of national awards, each named for a cultural figure and each fixed to one field.

Tansen Samman takes Hindustani classical music. Kalidas Samman rotates across classical music, dance, theatre and the plastic arts. Tulsi Samman goes to folk and tribal art, Iqbal Samman to Urdu writing, Kishore Kumar Samman to cinema.

SSC tests the pairing rather than the winners. You are given a field and a year and asked for the award, so learn the map field by field.

Every option here is a genuine Madhya Pradesh award, which is what makes the item work. The two anchors that separate them are the year 1980 and the field, Hindustani classical music.

Key facts

The Tansen Samman was instituted by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1980 for Hindustani classical music.
It is presented at the Tansen Samaroh, the annual music festival held at Gwalior.
Kalidas Samman, Tulsi Samman, Iqbal Samman and Kishore Kumar Samman are also Madhya Pradesh state awards, each tied to a different field.

Study next

Kalidas Samman and the four fields it rotates throughTulsi Samman and Madhya Pradesh's folk and tribal art honoursThe Sangeet Natak Akademi Award as the Centre's parallel honour for performing artists

Common traps

Choosing Kumar Gandharva Samman because Kumar Gandharva sang Hindustani classical music
Reading these as Union government honours when they are Madhya Pradesh state awards

SSC pairs an award with a state, a field or a year and asks you to complete the pair. Kalidas Samman is set that way on 12 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.5, and the Tansen Music Festival on 10 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.10.

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