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UGC NET December 2012 History
Who among the following commented for the first time that Kabir tried to undermine the common people's pessimism in his Bhakti?
ASatish Chandra
BYusuf Hussain
CJ.N. Farquhar
DRomila Thapar ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Romila Thapar — Romila Thapar made this comment for the first time, so the answer is Romila Thapar.
Explanation
★Romila Thapar made this comment for the first time, so the answer is Romila Thapar.
★She is a leading historian of ancient and early Indian society.
★She observed that Kabir sought to lift the common people out of despair through his Bhakti.
★Kabir was a fifteenth-century saint-poet of the Nirguna stream of devotion.
★He rejected caste, ritual and outward religion and stressed a formless God.
★His verses, the dohas and sakhis, spoke directly to ordinary people.
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