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Saint to regionRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Bhakti-Sufi bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The Mughal rulers did not call themselves Mughals. What did they call themselves?Read the answer and worked solution →Babur pushed from Kabul into the Indian subcontinent in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Humayun lost the empire to which Afghan leader before regaining it in 1555?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was the last Mughal, overthrown by the British in 1857?Read the answer and worked solution →Which emperor consciously made Persian the leading language of the Mughal court?Read the answer and worked solution →The Mahabharata was translated into Persian under which title?Read the answer and worked solution →The imperial scriptorium where manuscripts were kept and produced was called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Akbar's favourite calligraphic style, fluid with long horizontal strokes, was:Read the answer and worked solution →Abu'l Fazl worked on the Akbar Nama from 1589 for how many years?Read the answer and worked solution →The third book of the Akbar Nama is which text?Read the answer and worked solution →Abu'l Fazl was murdered in a conspiracy hatched by Prince Salim. Who was the accomplice?Read the answer and worked solution →Who wrote the Badshah Nama, the official history of Shah Jahan's reign?Read the answer and worked solution →The Nawab of Awadh gifted the illustrated Badshah Nama in 1799 to which king?Read the answer and worked solution →Abu'l Fazl's idea of Divine Light, farr-i izadi, drew on which Iranian sufi?Read the answer and worked solution →Akbar abolished the pilgrimage tax in 1563 and which tax in 1564?Read the answer and worked solution →Jahangir's Chain of Justice was made of pure gold and contained how many bells?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1585 Akbar shifted the capital from Fatehpur Sikri to which city?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did Shah Jahan's court move from Agra to the new capital Shahjahanabad?Read the answer and worked solution →Which English envoy of James I shocked the Mughal court by demanding a chair?Read the answer and worked solution →Akbar introduced the practice of appearing on a balcony each morning for public darshan. The balcony was the:Read the answer and worked solution →A mansabdar's rank had two numbers. Zat showed position and salary. What did sawar show?Read the answer and worked solution →The first Jesuit mission reached Akbar's court at Fatehpur Sikri in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Mughal chroniclesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the court wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Mughal yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the ministersRead the answer and worked solution →Akbar or Shah JahanRead the answer and worked solution →

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Saint to region

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Items
  1. Group
    Tamil Nadu
    Item
    Andal
  2. Group
    Tamil Nadu
    Item
    Appar
  3. Group
    Tamil Nadu
    Item
    Karaikkal
  4. Group
    Karnataka
    Item
    Basavanna
  5. Group
    Karnataka
    Item
    Lingayats
  6. Group
    Punjab
    Item
    Guru Nanak
  7. Group
    Punjab
    Item
    Baba Farid
Groups
  1. Item
    Tamil Nadu
  2. Item
    Karnataka
  3. Item
    Punjab
Instructions
Drop each saint onto their region.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 6, Bhakti-Sufi Traditions: Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    711
    Question
    Year Muhammad Qasim conquered Sind
  2. Answer
    12
    Question
    Number of Alvars
  3. Answer
    1235
    Question
    Year Muinuddin Chishti died
  4. Answer
    1325
    Question
    Year Nizamuddin Auliya died
  5. Answer
    1469
    Question
    Year Guru Nanak was born
  6. Answer
    14
    Question
    Times Akbar visited Ajmer
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 6, Bhakti-Sufi Traditions: Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts._

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Bhakti-Sufi bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Puri's lord of the world.
    Item
    Jagannatha
  2. Clue
    Name for the Alvar anthology.
    Item
    Tamil Veda
  3. Clue
    Founder of the Lingayats.
    Item
    Basavanna
  4. Clue
    Protected non-Muslim subject.
    Item
    Zimmi
  5. Clue
    Sufi hospice.
    Item
    Khanqah
  6. Clue
    Comforter of the poor at Ajmer.
    Item
    Gharib Nawaz
  7. Clue
    Kabir's upside-down sayings.
    Item
    Ulatbansi
  8. Clue
    Nanak's rabab player.
    Item
    Mardana
  9. Clue
    Army of the pure.
    Item
    Khalsa
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 6, Bhakti-Sufi Traditions: Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts._

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