SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 15 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 22 of 100

We transcribed this text from the pictures on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; the answer is the key SSC colour-marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 11 September 2026.

Where this paper and its answers come from

SSC does not publish CGL question papers or a public answer key. From 2025 the candidate response sheet prints every question and option as a picture, so the text here is transcribed from those pictures for this shift and checked against them independently; where the layout carries meaning, the picture is shown as well. Each answer is the key SSC colour-marked on that sheet. SSC released a tentative key for challenge and later its final one, both only to candidates behind a login, and the sheet does not say which of the two it carries. The solutions are written by UnlockIAS.

Which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. Panthi steps encode teachings from Guru Ghasidas’s Amritvani. 2. Masks representing Satpurush are worn in high ritual versions.

(a)Only 1
(b)Only 2
(c)1 and 2 both
(d)Neither 1 nor 2

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Statement 1 holds in substance. Panthi is the devotional dance of the Satnami community of Chhattisgarh, performed to songs that eulogise Guru Ghasidas and convey the spirit of his renunciation.

Statement 2 is the one the key rejects. Panthi is described as dancers circling a jaitkhamb and building to acrobatics and human pyramids, with no mention of masks → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Only 2 — Statement 1 is true, so Only 2 cannot be right. Statement 2 is the one the key rejects.
(c)
1 and 2 both — Statement 2 is rejected by the key. Panthi is described as a dance around a jaitkhamb that builds to acrobatics and human pyramids, with no mention of masks for Satpurush.
(d)
Neither 1 nor 2 — Statement 1 is true: Panthi is the Satnamis' devotional dance, performed to songs in praise of Guru Ghasidas.

Concept

Guru Ghasidas founded the Satnami movement of Chhattisgarh in the first half of the nineteenth century. He preached Satnam, the true name, as a formless God, and rejected idol worship.

Panthi is the Satnamis' devotional dance. Dancers circle a jaitkhamb set up for the occasion, to songs eulogising their spiritual head. As the rhythm quickens they perform acrobatics and form human pyramids.

The stem's name for Ghasidas's teachings, Amritvani, could not be traced to a source for this card. Hold on to the substance the key accepts: Panthi is devotion to Guru Ghasidas, danced to songs in his praise.

Key facts

Panthi is the folk dance of the Satnami community of Chhattisgarh.
Guru Ghasidas founded the Satnami movement of Chhattisgarh in the first half of the nineteenth century.
The Satnamis of Ghasidas worship a formless deity, Satnam, and reject idol worship.
Panthi dancers perform around a jaitkhamb, and the dance builds to acrobatics and human pyramids.

Study next

Other Chhattisgarh folk forms: Raut Nacha, Karma and PandavaniBhakti saint-poets whose teachings Panthi songs echo: Kabir, Ramdas and DaduNineteenth-century caste-reform movements and their founders

Common traps

Accepting statement 2 because it sounds like authentic ritual detail, when the key rejects it.
Rejecting statement 1 over the unfamiliar word Amritvani, when its substance is the link SSC tests.

Panthi is tied to Guru Ghasidas's followers at 14 Sep 2025, 12:30, GA Q.19 and matched to the Satnami community at 18 Sep 2025, 12:30, GA Q.24. Ghasidas and the Satnami movement are asked at 26 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.6.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.

Topic: Culture — all 163 SSC CGL questions on it, every solved shift.