NTSE - History & Pol. Science - L2

​Dashavatara shows are presented in the regions of Konkan and Goa after harvesting season is over.

The stories presented in these shows are based on the 10 incarnations of Vishnu, namely Matsya, Koorma, Varaha, Narsimha, Wamana, Parashurama, Ram, Krishna, Buddha and Kalki.

Namdev Damaji Relekar​

Saint Namdev ​was an Indian poet and saint from Hingoli, Maharashtra

​Namdev was influenced by Vaishnavism and became widely known in India for his devotional songs set to music

​Namdev is one of the revered holy men in Sikhism as well

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​Kusumāgraj, also known as Vi. Vā. Shirwadkar, was an eminent Marathi poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer

​his play, Natsamrat, which has an important place in Marathi literature

​Natsamrat is asn adaptation of King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

​Raja Harishchandra is a 1913 Indian silent film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke.

​It is often considered the first full-length Indian feature film

​In February 1912, Phalke went to London for two weeks to learn filmmaking techniques and upon return founded Phalke Films Company.

​The Pompeii Lakshmi is an ivory statuette that was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, a Roman city destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 79 CE

​The statuette has been dated to the first-century CE

​The yakshi is evidence of commercial trade between India and Rome in the first century CE.

She is the only woman to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times

​Only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships

​Only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals

​Gerardus Mercator was a 16th-century geographer, cosmographer and cartographer from the County of Flanders

​He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map

​Vishnubhat Godase wrote down the accounts of his journey fromB Maharashtra to Ayodhya and back to Maharashtra.

It is published as a book entitled, ‘Maza Pravas’ (My Journey).

Vishnubhat travelled during times of the Indian war of independence in 1857.

He was the eye witness for many events related to this historical event

​The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.

​it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world"

​The first museum in India, ‘Indian Museum’, was established by ‘Asiatic Society of Bengal’ in Kolkata, in 1814 C.E.

​referred to as the Imperial Museum at Calcutta in colonial-era texts, is the ninth oldest museum in the world, the oldest and largest museum in India.^[