Arrange the following major religious teachers in chronological order:
A. Ramananda
B. Chaitanya
C. Kabir
D. Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A, C, B, D
(A) Ramananda — c. 1300-1400, in Uttar Pradesh. Vaishnava traditions suggest that Kabir was initiated into bhakti by a guru, perhaps Ramananda.
(C) Kabir — c. 1400-1500, in Uttar Pradesh. Kabir lived in the fourteenth-fifteenth centuries, and his verses describe the Ultimate Reality in many ways and reject outward rituals.
(B) Chaitanya — c. 1500-1600. Sri Chaitanya was a Vaishnava teacher of Bengal.
(D) Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi — c. 1600-1700, in Haryana, a noted seventeenth-century Naqshbandi sufi whose letters are still widely discussed.
NCERT: Themes in Indian History Part II — Chapter 6: Bhakti-Sufi Traditions (2025-26)
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