Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Bhakti Sufi Traditions

Question:

Match List I with List II.

List – I

List - II

 (A) Varanasi  

 (I) Shah Hamdan Mosque

 (B) Marwar

 (II) Dargah Shaikh Muinuddin

 (C) Srinagar

 (III) Kabir Bijak is preserved here  

 (D) Ajmer

 (IV) Native place of Meerabai

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

Correct Answer:

(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (4) → (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

Correct Match:

List – I

List - II

 (A) Varanasi  

 (III) Kabir Bijak is preserved here

 (B) Marwar

 (IV) Native place of Meerabai

 (C) Srinagar

 (I) Shah Hamdan Mosque

 (D) Ajmer

 (II) Dargah Shaikh Muinuddin

Explanation:

Verses ascribed to Kabir have been compiled in three distinct but overlapping traditions. The Kabir Bijak is preserved by the Kabirpanth (the path or sect of Kabir) in Varanasi and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh; the Kabir Granthavali is associated with the Dadupanth in Rajasthan, and many of his compositions are found in the Adi Granth Sahib (see Section 8.2). All these manuscript compilations were made long after the death of Kabir. By the nineteenth century, anthologies of verses attributed to him circulated in print in regions as far apart as Bengal, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

Mirabai (c. fifteenth-sixteenth centuries) is perhaps the best-known woman poet within the bhakti tradition. Biographies have been reconstructed primarily from the bhajans attributed to her, which were transmitted orally for centuries. According to these, she was a Rajput princess from Merta in Marwar who was married against her wishes to a prince of the Sisodia clan of Mewar, Rajasthan. She defied her husband and did not submit to the traditional role of wife and mother, instead recognising Krishna, the avatar of Vishnu, as her lover. Her in-laws tried to poison her, but she escaped from the palace to live as a wandering saint composing songs that are characterised by intense expressions of emotion.

The Shah Hamadan mosque in Srinagar, on the banks of the Jhelum, is often regarded as the “jewel in the crown” of all the existing mosques of Kashmir. Built in 1395, it is one of the best examples of Kashmiri wooden architecture. Notice the spire and the beautifully carved eaves. It is decorated with papier mache.

Shaikh Muinuddin Sijzi's Dargah is in Ajmer (Rajasthan).