Arrange the following major religious teachers in a chronological order:
(A) Basavanna in Karnataka
(B) Sri Chaitanya in Bengal
(C) Miyan Mir in the Punjab
(D) Sambandar in Tamil Nadu
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (D), (A), (B), (C)
(D) Sambandar in Tamil Nadu — c. 500-800 CE. Sambandar was one of the Nayanar saints of Tamil Nadu; the poems of Appar, Sambandar and Sundarar form the Tevaram.
(A) Basavanna in Karnataka — c. 1100-1200. Basavanna led the Virashaiva movement in Karnataka in the twelfth century.
(B) Sri Chaitanya in Bengal — c. 1500-1600. He belongs to the sixteenth century, the same period as Mirabai in Rajasthan.
(C) Miyan Mir in the Punjab — c. 1600-1700. The latest of the four, of the same century as Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi in Haryana.
NCERT: Themes in Indian History Part II — Chapter 6: Bhakti-Sufi Traditions (2025-26)
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