Arrange the following Saints of the Bhakti Movement in chronological order:
A. Lal Ded (Kashmir)
B. Data Ganj Bakhsh (Punjab)
C. Sri Chaitanya (Bengal)
D. Basavanna (Karnataka)
E. Kabir (Uttar Pradesh)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → B, D, A, E, C
B. Data Ganj Bakhsh (Punjab)
D. Basavanna (Karnataka)
A. Lal Ded (Kashmir)
E. Kabir (Uttar Pradesh)
C. Sri Chaitanya (Bengal)
Some Major Religious Teachers in the Subcontinent (time in CE):
c. 500-800: Appar, Sambandar, Sundaramurti in Tamil Nadu
c. 800-900: Nammalvar, Manikkavachakar, Andal, Tondaradippodi in Tamil Nadu.
c.1000-1100: Al Hujwiri, Data Ganj Bakhsh in the Punjab; Ramanujacharya in Tamil Nadu
c.1100-1200: Basavanna in Karnataka
c.1200-1300: Jnanadeva in Maharashtra
c.1300-1400: Lal Ded in Kashmir
c.1400-1500: Kabir, Raidas, Surdas in Uttar Pradesh
c.1500-1600: Sri Chaitanya in Bengal; Mirabai in Rajasthan;Shaikh Abdul Quddus Gangohi, Malik Muhammad Jaisi, Tulsidas in Uttar Pradesh.