SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 14 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 19 of 100

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Fill in the Blank: Koli dance is traditionally performed by the _____ community.

(a)Fisherfolk
(b)Farmers
(c)Shepherds
(d)Weavers

Answer

Why

Correct — A. The Koli dance takes its name from the Koli fisherfolk of coastal Maharashtra, whose dance it is.

Its movements come from the sea. Dancers hold oars and move together as if rowing a boat, and they mime waves and the casting of nets.

A dance of rowing and nets belongs to a fishing community: option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Farmers — The dance's gestures are rowing, waves and nets, not sowing or harvest. It comes from the Koli fishing community of coastal Maharashtra.
(c)
Shepherds — Shepherds follow flocks overland. The Koli dance is a coastal dance: its dancers carry oars and mime a boat being rowed.
(d)
Weavers — No loom or thread appears in it. The Koli dance mimes the sea, with oars, waves and nets, because it is a fishing community's dance.

Concept

The Koli dance is a folk dance of Maharashtra's Koli fisherfolk, and it is built from their work at sea.

The oars and unison strokes stand for a boat being rowed, and the dancers mime the swell of waves and the throwing of nets.

Read the movements, and the community follows.

Key facts

Koli dance is a folk dance of the Koli fishing community of coastal Maharashtra.
Its movements depict rowing a boat, the waves and the casting of fishing nets.

Study next

Lavani and other folk forms of MaharashtraFolk dances of the north-east, such as Cheraw of Mizoram

Common traps

Choosing farmers out of a harvest-dance reflex, when the Koli dance's props are oars and its gestures are nets and waves.

Here the dance is tied to a community rather than a state. Folk dances also appear at 12 Sep 2025, 09:00, GA Q.19, on the Cheraw bamboo dance, and at 17 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.13, on the Matki dance, both asked by state.

Related PYQs

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