The Maratha Saint who exercised a profound influence on the minds of his countrymen and inspired them with ideals of social reform and national regeneration was ________.
A
Eknath
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B
Tukaram
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C
Samarth Ramdas
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D
Vaman Pandit
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Solution
The correct option is A Tukaram Tukaram was a 17th-century poet-saint of the Bhakti movement in Maharashtra. His stature in Marathi literature is comparable to that of Shakespeare in English or Goethe in German. He is best known for his Abhanga devotional poetry and community-oriented worship with spiritual songs known as kirtans. There is no other Marathi writer who has so deeply and widely influenced Marathi literary culture since.