Question

Which dance form is associated with the worship of Radha and Krishna, and involves ladies carrying oil lamps on their heads?
1. Chholiya
2. Chhau
3. Charkula
4. Dumhal

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Charkula

The correct answer is Charkula.

• Charkula dance form is associated with the worship of Radha and Krishna and involves ladies carrying oil lamps on their heads.
• This popular dance is well known in the entire Braj area.
• This folk dance is connected to the myths of Lord Krishna and his surrounding life.
• This folk dance is even performed on the folk tunes of Rasiya which is a song celebrating love.

• In this dance, veiled women balancing large multi-tiered circular wooden pyramids on their heads dance to songs about Krishna.
• Each pyramid has 108 lighted oil lamps arranged in a spiral. It is specially performed on the third day after Holi.
• It is believed that on that day Radha was born.
• The Charkula dance celebrates the happy victory over Indra by Krishna and the cowherd community of Braj.

Dance	Details
Chholiya	Chholiya is a dance form practiced in the Kumaon division of Uttarakhand, India. It is basically a sword dance accompanying a marriage procession but now it is performed on many auspicious occasions.
Chhau	Chhau dance, also spelled as Chau or Chhaau, is a semi-classical Indian dance with martial, tribal, and folk traditions, with origins in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, and slowly panned out to neighboring regions of Jharkhand and West Bengal.
Dumhal	The Dumhal dance is one of the popular folk dances of the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. This dance is only performed by the men of the Wattal tribe of the region. The Dumhal dance is presented on specific auspicious occasions in the tribe.