UGC NET History Practice Question

The famous Bhakti saint Kabir was a disciple of which spiritual teacher in Varanasi?

Ramananda ✓

Vallabhacharya

Chaitanya

Jnaneshwar

Kabir is traditionally held to be a disciple of Ramananda in Varanasi — Ramananda's own teaching, which welcomed disciples across caste lines, helped shape Kabir's own strongly anti-caste, syncretic devotional philosophy blending Hindu and Islamic ideas.

Who was the founder of the Gaudiya Vaishnavism movement in Bengal, promoting congregational singing (Sankirtana) of Lord Krishna's name?

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ✓

Shankaradeva

Chandidas

Vidyapati

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu founded Gaudiya Vaishnavism in Bengal, centered on ecstatic devotion to Krishna and congregational chanting/singing (Sankirtana) — a movement with a distinctly emotional, communal style of worship that spread widely across eastern India.

The monotheistic socio-religious movement in Assam known as Ekasarana Dharma was founded by:

Srimanta Shankaradeva ✓

Chaitanya

Madhavadeva

Guru Nanak

Srimanta Shankaradeva founded Ekasarana Dharma ("Refuge in One" — devotion to a single God) in Assam, alongside establishing the Sattra monastic institution — Madhavadeva was his most prominent disciple and successor, not the movement's original founder.

The compiler of the Guru Granth Sahib (Adi Granth), who installed it in the Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar in 1604, was:

Guru Arjan Dev ✓

Guru Nanak

Guru Amar Das

Guru Gobind Singh

Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Sikh Guru, compiled the Adi Granth and installed it in the newly built Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in 1604 — Guru Nanak founded Sikhism itself but did not compile this scripture; Guru Gobind Singh later gave it final canonical status as Guru Granth Sahib.

Which Mughal prince translated the Upanishads from Sanskrit into Persian under the title Sirr-i-Akbar (The Great Secret)?

Dara Shikoh ✓

Murad Bakhsh

Shah Shuja

Kamran

Dara Shikoh, Shah Jahan's eldest son, translated 50 Upanishads into Persian as Sirr-i-Akbar, reflecting his deep interest in the philosophical common ground between Hindu Vedanta and Sufi mysticism — a theme he explored further in his Majma-ul-Bahrain.

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