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3. What book has Tulsidas written?
4. What were the followers of Kabir Das called?

5. Where was Guru Nanak born?
6. What are the two Silsilahs of the Sufi saints?
F. Answer the questions in brief :

1. What is religion concerned with? What can be the different means of getting peace of mind?
2. How did the Bhakti movement start and spread?
3. What is the contribution of Surdas to the Bhakti movement?
4. What did Basavanna teach?
5. What are the three important principles that Guru Nanak preach?

6. How did the Sufi saints differ from the Ulema?
G. Answer the questions in detail :
1. What were the common features between the Bhakti and Sufi movements?

2. What are the important teachings of Kabir Das?
3. Who was Guru Nanak? What were his three chief teachings?
4. What is the contribution of Tulsidas to the Bhakti movement?
5. Write about Chishti Silsilah.

6. Explain the main teachings of Sufi saints.

1. Write any four features which are common to all religions and faith.
2. How the changes in social condition contributed to the development of religious movements like
Bhakti, Sufi and Sikhism?

Khanqah
The khanqah was a place where everyone was equal. A king and a common person both were received
by the Sufi saints in the same manner. The place was also used as a centre of spiritual training and
character formation. It also participated in various activities of public welfare.
It was a spiritual institution based on human understanding and feeling. During medieval period and
even after, people of all religions and races, irrespective of caste and creed, used to visited khanqahs for
purposes of healing and satisfaction.

Every khanqah had a langarkhana or free kitchen attached to it that provided food to the poor and the
needy. Langarkhanas were maintained by endowments or income from the state endowed lakhiraj
lands. They enabled the sufis and dervishes to come closer to the common people and thereby, to
understand their feelings and attitudes.

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