HistoryMedieval India: Bhakti Sufi Traditions

Short poems in Dakhani, attributed to Chishti sufis of the Bijapur re…

Short poems in Dakhani, attributed to Chishti sufis of the Bijapur region and probably sung by women while grinding grain and spinning, belong to which period?

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

These Dakhani poems are linked to Chishti sufis who lived around Bijapur in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

NCERT (2026-27): “7.3 Languages and communication …
A different genre of sufi poetry was composed in and around the town of Bijapur, Karnataka. These were short poems in Dakhani (a variant of Urdu) attributed to Chishti sufis who lived in this region during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These poems were probably sung by women while performing household chores like grinding grain and spinning. …”