RAS question
The Rajasthani dish 'Ghewar' is a specialty sweet associated with which festival?
Correct answer: (C) Teej and Raksha Bandhan (Sawan/monsoon season).
Ghewar is the Rajasthani speciality sweet associated with Teej and Raksha Bandhan in the Sawan or monsoon season.
Explanation
Ghewar is identified with Teej and Raksha Bandhan in Rajasthan, especially the Sawan or monsoon festive season. The Rajasthan Tourism page for Jaipur describes Teej as a set of monsoon festivals and explicitly says that the traditional sweet Ghewar is closely associated with the festival and enjoyed during it. Ghewar is a disc-shaped, honeycomb-patterned sweet made by pouring refined-flour batter into ghee, then soaking it in sugar syrup and topping it with rabri or mawa. Plain, malai and mawa ghewar are standard varieties. The key test point is therefore not just the sweet itself, but its seasonal-festival association in Rajasthan.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Diwali is not the specific festival association tested here; Ghewar is linked to Teej and Raksha Bandhan, not to Diwali alone.
- (B) Makar Sankranti is associated with til-gud in the option logic, whereas Ghewar is linked here to the Sawan or monsoon festival context.
- (D) Holi is not the relevant association because Ghewar belongs to the Teej and Raksha Bandhan setting.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan art-and-culture through festival food associations, a recurring RAS theme because local cuisine is often tied to seasonal rituals. Ghewar matters as a marker of the monsoon festival cycle rather than as a generic sweet.