History · Emergence of Regional Kingdoms
UGC NET June 2012 History
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below.
Assertion (A): The growth of regional politics in early medieval India was accompanied by the composition of royal biographies by court poets.
Reason (R): Sandhyakaranandin's Ramacharita is written in the slesha style and simultaneously tells the story of the epic hero Rama and the Pala king Ramapala.
ABoth A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct
BBoth A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
CA is true, but R is false
DA is false, but R is true
Correct answer: (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A — Both statements are true and the reason explains the assertion, so the answer is both true with R explaining A.
Explanation
★Both statements are true and the reason explains the assertion, so the answer is both true with R explaining A.
★As regional kingdoms rose in early medieval India, their courts patronised poets who wrote royal biographies.
★These charita works praised kings and tied their deeds to epic and divine models.
★Sandhyakaranandin's Ramacharita is a perfect example of this trend.
★Using the double-meaning slesha style, it narrates the story of Rama and of the Pala king Ramapala at once.
★So this charita is a concrete instance that explains the growth of court biographies in regional politics.
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