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  1. 3. _____ language is a mixture of Hindi, Arabic and Persian and also known as Zaban-e-Hindvi
  2. 5. The arrival of __________________ in Calicut is a landmark in the history of Christianity in India
  3. 8. He was given the title of nayak and introduced many Perso-Arabic ragas
  4. 9. Mirabai's brilliant poetry which portray a deep personal association with Lord Krishna is known as ___________
  5. 11. Nizamuddin became a disciple of _____________ of Ajodhan
  6. 12. Compilations and compositions of Kabir
  7. 14. Is a sufi shrine of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chisti
  8. 19. At the age of 15, Sant Jnaneswar delivered a nine-thousand verses of his commentary on Bhagwad Gita called the Jnaneswari and also known as __________
  9. 20. Hajrat Nizamuddin built his Khanqah in ______
  10. 21. The followers of the Sufi order were called _____
  11. 22. The Tamil Vaishnava saints called ______ and the Saivite saints called Nayanars preached 'personal devotion' to God as a means to reach God
  12. 24. The Sufi saints who settled in India belonged to the ______ and Suhrawadi orders
  13. 25. The entire Guru Granth Sahib is written in the ________ script
  14. 26. The decorative device found in all the buildings of Firoz Tughlaq is _______
  15. 28. ________ was pronounced a saint by Pope Gregory IX
  16. 29. Each Sufi order has a ______ or a hermitage where the Sufi saints resided with their disciples
  17. 31. Kabir was a desciple of the Bhakti saint ________
  18. 32. Vasco da gama who discovered the sea route from Europe landed at _____ near Kozhikode (Calicut)
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  1. 1. The most important work produced during the Mughal period is ________ which has nearly 1200 paintings
  2. 2. He became the first Jesuit missionary to arrive in India
  3. 4. ______ form is usually written in the metre called chaupai and based on a musical raga
  4. 6. Holy book of the Sikhs
  5. 7. Bhakti movement has its roots in the philosphy of ________
  6. 10. is composed in the doha or couplet form
  7. 13. The main gate to Ajmer Sherif shrine is known as the _______ gate
  8. 15. Bijak comprises of three main sections Sakhi, ________ and Shabda and a fourth section containing miscellaneous folk songs
  9. 16. The fifth Sikh guru compiled the Guru Nanak Dev's hymns along with four of his successors and other religios preachers in the Adi Granth Sahib
  10. 17. ____ Movement originated as a reaction against caste division and ritualism in India
  11. 18. Among the important literary works of Bhakti period were _______ by Tulsidas, Gurmukhi literature of Sikha Gurus and Vaishnava literature in Bengal
  12. 23. On the advice of his brother and Guru Nivrittinatha, Sant Jnaneswar wrote a treatise on his spiritual experience called _________
  13. 27. One of the Bhakti saints was _______ who was the Rajasthani princess of Mewar
  14. 30. In the month of Kartik Sant Jnaneswar took samadhi at ________
  15. 33. The leader of the Sufi order was called ___