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D. Answer the following questions in detail:
1. Who was Kabir? Throw some light on the life and teachings of Kabir.
2. Who were the saints of Maharashtra? What were their main teachings?

3. What was the significance of the khanqahs and dargahs in the Sufi religion?
4. Describe the main teachings of the Bhakti saints.
5. Throw light on the literary developments of the Bhakti period.

HOTS (Critical Thinking)
Both Bhakti and Sufism became popular in the Medieval Period. Why?

Skill Based Questions

A. Hold a competition in which each participant has to recite a devotional poem or a devotional song and explain
its meaning. All the poems and songs should be chosen from among the compositions of Sufi or Bhakti saints.
(Communication Skills)
B. In an outline map of India, locate the major regions associated with Bhakti saints. (Creative Skills)

Learning by Doing Experiential Learning
Collect information about Bhakti Saints of India through books, magazines, newspapers, the Internet, etc. Prepare a
chart depicting why and how were their thinking similar? Why did people accept them? Why did they become
successful? Paste their photographs.

Nurture the Values Life Skills

• You are a devotee of any one of the Bhakti or Sufi saints. Give a first hand account of the teaching of your Guru
and write how it influenced your thinking.
• Make a project on the lives of any two Bhakti saints of your choice. Paste their pictures and write briefly about
their teachings. Compile the project in your notebook.

Think Before You Write Cognitive Skills

Given below are some features that are associated with Bhakti movement and some others are associated with
sufism. Read and identify them separately.
1. Unity of God, significance of God. 2. Rejection of idol worship.
3. Intense love and devotion to God. 4. Faith in spiritual guide or Guru.
5. Rejection of rituals. 6. Stress on noble and good deeds.
7. Emphasis on love, devotion and complete 8. Self surrender to the will of God.
surrender to God.

Statement no. that are associated
with Bhakti movement
Statement no. that are associated
with Sufism

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