UGC NET History Practice Question

Ramanujacharya propounded which philosophical school of Vedanta, emphasizing devotion (Bhakti) to a personal God (Narayana)?

Vishishtadvaita (Qualified Non-Dualism) ✓

Dvaita (Dualism)

Shuddhadvaita (Pure Non-Dualism)

Dvaitadvaita (Dualistic Monism)

Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita ("qualified non-dualism") holds that the individual soul and Brahman are related but not fully identical, allowing for genuine devotional relationship with a personal God — a philosophical basis well-suited to the emotionally devotional Bhakti movement he helped inspire.

The Sufi order (Silsilah) that was founded in India by Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti had its principal shrine located at:

Ajmer ✓

Delhi

Nagaur

Gulbarga

Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti established the Chishti order in India with his principal shrine (dargah) at Ajmer — it remains one of the most visited Sufi shrines in South Asia and the symbolic center of the Chishti Silsilah's presence in India.

Which Sufi saint was famously titled Mahbub-i-Ilahi (Beloved of God) and lived through the reigns of seven Delhi Sultans?

Nizamuddin Auliya ✓

Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki

Nasiruddin Chirag-i-Dehlavi

Baba Farid

Nizamuddin Auliya, given the honorific Mahbub-i-Ilahi, is one of the most revered Chishti saints, having lived through seven Sultans' reigns — his recorded conversations (Fawa'id-ul-Fu'ad, compiled by Amir Hasan Sijzi) are a major primary source for Sultanate-era Sufism.

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.

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