The Alwars and the Nayanars

Q.

Name the magazine written by Mahatma Gandhi.

1. Mission India

2. The Discovery of India

3. White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

4. Young India

Q. Which of the following group(s) led the Bhakti movement in South India during the medieval period?

1. Nayanars
2. Alwars
3. Sufis
4. Kabir

Q. _____ was a famous Vaishnavite woman saint of the Bhakti tradition from Tamil Nadu during the Medieval period.

1. Mirabai
2. Bhahinabai
3. Andal
4. Akka Mahadevi

Q. were Saivites, who worshipped Shiva.

1. Parsis
2. Sufis
3. Nayanars
4. Alwars

Q. Rama was a worshipper of Vishnu. Krishna was a worshipper of Shiva. Both of them travelled from place to place composing devotional poems and songs. To which group did Rama and Krishna belong to?

1. Rama was a Pir, Krishna was a Murid
2. Rama was a Murid, Krishna was a Pir
3. Rama was an Alwar, Krishna was a Nayanar
4. Rama was a Nayanar, Krishna was an Alwar

Q. What were the Vaishnavites, who worshipped Vishnu, called?

1. Alwars
2. Parsis
3. Sufis
4. Nayanars

Q. Identify the two groups with their respective interests of worshipping that emerged in Tamil Nadu.

1. Vaishnavites
2. Nayanars
3. Alwars
4. Saivites
5. Alwars saints
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