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pleasure, hence the dancers were not considered Shah Jahan developed a garden in Kashmir called
as honourable people. Shalimar Garden.

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The nawab of Awadh, Wajid Ali Shah was a skilled
dancer himself and patronised dance, especially
Kathak. He choreographed a dance called rahas and
formed the Lucknow gharana of dance.
Shalimar Garden in Ram Bagh in
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Srinagar (Kashmir) Agra
In addition to the above art forms, some other art
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chiefly restricted itself to temples. The Mughals
did not encourage this art. Not many books were written during the medieval
period because books were written and copied by
The Mughals laid several gardens. Babur hand. This is one of the reason that some variation
developed a garden at Agra called Ram Bagh, and is found among different copies of the same book.

v Literature and languages of Persian and Hindi developed during the Mughal period, but Sanskrit was not
encouraged; while Urdu became a link language.
v Regional languages and literature developed during the medieval period, such as Marathi, Gujarati and
Bengali.
v The regional languages started to take shape as they are used today and a large number of works were
written in them.
v The Mughal rulers patronised painting to the exception of Aurangzeb.
v The three important styles of painting were Mughal style, Rajasthani style and Kangra School style.

v Music, both vocal and instrumental, was patronised by Mughal rulers.
v Many classical dance forms evolved during the Mughal period, such as Kathak, Odisi and Bharatnatyam,
which were patronised by the Mughal rulers except Aurangzeb.

A. Tick (3) the right option :
1. Initially, Urdu contained a lot of Hindi words, but later they were dropped for ____________ words.
(a) English (b) Persian (c) Arabian
2. The most famous scholars of Hindi during the Mughal rule were ____________ .

(a) Tulsidas (b) Surdas (c) both of them
3. Shah Jahan developed a garden in Kashmir called ____________ .
(a) Shalimar Garden (b) Ram Bagh (c) none of these
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