UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, INDIAN CULTURE, December-2019

(a) To Rabindranath Tagore, England not only had a mission in India; but India herself had a supreme spiritual message for England and Europе.
(b) Rabindranath Tagore stands in the forefront of the Prophets of Bengali nationalism.
(c) Rabindranath Tagore fully supported Mahatma Gandhi's Non-cooperation movement.
(d) To fulfil the moral end of Modern Indian history and evolution, Rabindranath Tagore felt that the spell which the European illumination has cast over educated India should be broken.
Select the correct answers from those options given below:

(a) Chaitanya initiated a cult of Krishna and Radha, in which the devotee pictured himself as a companion of Krishna at Vrindaban.
(b) Chaitanya had his followers mainly in Bengal.
(c) His successors, the Goswamis, at Vrindaban gave a philosophical basis to the cult and outlined its rituals.
(d) To his followers Chaitanya himself appeared as a joint incarnation of Krishna and Radha.
Select the correct answer from the options given below:

(a) Kabir
(b) Ramdas
(c) Namdev
(d) Dadu
Select the correct option from below:

(a) The temple of Govind-dev at Vrindaban was built in 1590.
(b) It was built by Mota Raja Udai Singh of Marwar.
(c) It has a very little influence of Mughal style of architecture.
(d) Its main hall is in the form of a cross with galleries, set above, curiously like a church.
Select the correct option given below:

(a) The foundation of this school of historical writing was laid by R. Palme Dutt and A.R. Desai, but several others have contributed in later years.
(b) They take full cognizance of the process of India becoming a nation, and see the national movement as a movement of the people.
(c) Their major emphasis was to show inner contradictions of Indian Society in terms of caste.
(d) They tend to see the national movement as a structured bourgeois movement, supported by the Capitalist class.
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(a) The worship of gods and goddesses was absorbed into the Vaisnava pantheon.
(b) The worship of avataras of Vishnu became increasingly popular.
(c) The assimilative potential of the avatara doctrine is indicated by the incorporation of Buddha in the list of some Puranas.
(d) It is a homogenous tradition.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(a) He is referred to as 'Father of modern Hindi literature'.
(b) The Hindi drama owes its beginning to him.
(c) He wrote the first original drama Nahusa Nataka.
(d) In his plays, he brought about harmony between the 'rasa' of Sanskrit drama and conflict of Western plays.
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