Hojagiri dance, performed by women balancing bottles and lamps, is associated with which tribe and state?

Correct — B. Hojagiri belongs to the Reang community of Tripura.

It is danced by young women in teams of four to six. They balance a bottle or an earthen pitcher on the head and hold lamps in their hands, moving only the lower half of the body, while the men sing and play the instruments.

Reang – Tripura → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Bodo – Assam — The Bodos are a tribe of Assam, but Hojagiri is not their dance. The Bodo women's dance is Bagurumba, also called the butterfly dance.
• (c)
  Angami – Nagaland — The Angami are a Naga tribe of Nagaland, known for their Sekrenyi festival. Hojagiri is not a Naga dance. It belongs to the Reang community of Tripura.
• (d)
  Mishing – Arunachal Pradesh — The Mishing live mainly in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, but Hojagiri is not their dance. It belongs to the Reang community of Tripura.

Hojagiri is a folk dance of the Reang, also called Bru. The Reangs live across Tripura and are also found in Assam and Mizoram. The Scheduled Tribes list spells the name Riang.

The dance is performed at the Hojagiri festival, also called Laxmi Puja, on the full-moon night after Durga Puja.

Its signature is balance: a pitcher or bottle on the head and lamps in the hands, with only the lower body moving.

Key facts

• Hojagiri is performed by women of the Reang (Bru) community of Tripura.
• The dancers balance a bottle or earthen pitcher on the head and hold lamps in their hands.
• It is performed at the Hojagiri festival (Laxmi Puja), on the full-moon night after Durga Puja.

Common traps

• Learning only the state: a stem that pairs Tripura with the wrong community would catch you, and Hojagiri's community is Reang (Bru).
• Mixing up Hojagiri with Bagurumba because both are women's dances of the northeast.

No directly related past PYQ was found.