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The Alvars of Tamil Nadu were devotees of which deity?Read the answer and worked solution →Which anthology of the twelve Alvars was called the Tamil Veda?Read the answer and worked solution →The poems of Appar, Sambandar and Sundarar form which Shaiva collection?Read the answer and worked solution →Which woman Alvar saw herself as the beloved of Vishnu and whose songs are still sung?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Chola ruler consecrated metal images of Appar, Sambandar and Sundarar around 945?Read the answer and worked solution →Basavanna, founder of the Virashaiva movement, was a minister at which court?Read the answer and worked solution →Our knowledge of the Virashaiva tradition comes from sayings in Kannada called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Arab general conquered Sind in 711?Read the answer and worked solution →Non-Muslims who paid jizya and received protection under Muslim rulers were called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Khojahs, an Ismaili branch, spread Quranic ideas through devotional poems called:Read the answer and worked solution →In a mosque the niche indicating the direction of Mecca is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The sufi hospice controlled by a shaikh was called a:Read the answer and worked solution →The Chishti order took its name from what?Read the answer and worked solution →Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, buried at Ajmer, died in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Sultan was the first to visit the Ajmer dargah of Muinuddin Chishti?Read the answer and worked solution →Amir Khusrau introduced the qaul, the opening hymn of qawwali. Whose disciple was he?Read the answer and worked solution →The Padmavat, a love story symbolising the soul's journey to God, was composed by:Read the answer and worked solution →Baba Guru Nanak was born in 1469 in which village?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Sikh guru compiled the Adi Granth Sahib?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Chishti saintsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Tamil saintsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the saint yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the devotional textsRead the answer and worked solution →Bhakti or SufiRead the answer and worked solution →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 →

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The Alvars of Tamil Nadu were devotees of which deity?

  1. Durga
  2. Vishnu
  3. Shiva
  4. Murugan
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Correct answer: B. Vishnu

1. Alvar means one immersed in devotion to Vishnu. 2. Nayanars were devotees of Shiva. 3. Both sang hymns in Tamil. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 6, Bhakti-Sufi Traditions: Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts._

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Which anthology of the twelve Alvars was called the Tamil Veda?

  1. Kirtana-ghosha of Assam
  2. Adi Granth Sahib of Punjab
  3. Nalayira Divyaprabandham
  4. Tevaram of the Nayanars
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Correct answer: C. Nalayira Divyaprabandham

1. It was compiled by the tenth century. 2. Nalayira Divyaprabandham means Four Thousand Sacred Compositions. 3. The claim put it equal to the Vedas. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 6, Bhakti-Sufi Traditions: Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts._

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The poems of Appar, Sambandar and Sundarar form which Shaiva collection?

  1. Prabandham
  2. Vachanas
  3. Gurbani
  4. Tevaram
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Correct answer: D. Tevaram

1. It was compiled in the tenth century by musical mode. 2. The Tevaram holds these three Nayanars' poems. 3. Chola kings had it sung in temples. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 6, Bhakti-Sufi Traditions: Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts._

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