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SSC CHSL 2022 PYQ — Question 41

SSC CHSL - 30 May 2022 - Shift 3 • General Awareness • Q41

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Rukmini Devi Arundale, awarded with Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1957, was a _________ dancer.

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Correct answer: A

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The correct answer is option 1 i.e. Bharatanatyam.

  • In 1967,  Rukmini Devi Arundale, won The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.
  • Rukmini Devi Arundale (29 February 1904 – 24 February 1986) was an Indian classical dancer, and theosophist.
  • In 1923, she was appointed as the president of the All-India Federation of Young Theosophists and became the President of the World Federation of Young Theosophists in 1925