Question

“Gidda” is a popular folk dance form of which state of India?
A. Punjab
B. Haryana
C. Uttar Pradesh
D. Uttarakhand

Answer 1

Hint Gidda is a popular folk dance of women and popularly known as Lokh Naach and is derived from an ancient ring dance. Giddha differs from other styles of traditional Punjabi dance in that the two-headed barrel dhol drum is not expected to be performed.

Complete answer:
Gidda is performed by the women during the social gatherings and it is a bright, colourful and energetic dance performed to rhythmic clapping and boliyan by the women. Like other folk dances, Gidda is also a very vigorous folk dance and a very much affair of legs.
In Gidda dance form mimicry is a part of the dance. Today, Gidda is mostly performed in the city of Amritsar and in Pakistan it is popular in Lahore.
The traditional dress code of Gidda dance is short female style shirt ( choli ) with ghagra or lehenga or an ordinary Punjabi Salwar- Kameez which is rich in colour, design and cloth. The ornaments are haar hamela, suggi phulto pazaibs ( anklets ), baazu band and rani haar, the dress is quite elegant and adds more charm to feminine grace and the costume is comfortable to perform the dance with ease. The women in rural Punjab don it every day.
Gidda is a popular folk dance form of Punjab state of India.

Therefore the correct answer is A

Note
The dance is translated into boliyan verse of different length, gestures, satirizing politics, the excesses committed by the husbands and the loneliness of a young bride and other evils of the society.
Dressing the hair in two braids and folk ornaments and wearing a tikka on the forehead are part of the attire.