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Answer: (c)

Answer: (c)

A Passage to England is a book comprising the lectures of Nirad C. Chaudhury.

Answer: (d)

Kabir was a mystic poet and saint, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. The name Kabir comes from Arabic alKab?r which means ‘The Great’ – the 37th name of God in Islam.

The Imperial Princess Gulbadan Begum was a Perso-Turkic Princess, the daughter of Emperor Babur, she is most known as the author of Humayun Nama, the account of the life of her half-brother, Humayun.

Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad albiruni known as Alberonius in Latin and Albiruni in English was a Persian-Khwarezmian Muslim scholar and polymath from the Khwarezm region.

Malik Muhammad Jayasi was an Indian poet who wrote in the Avadhi dialect of Hindi. He hailed from Jais, presently a city in the Rae Barieli district in Uttar Pradesh.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

Ashtadhyayi is a Sanskrit treatise on grammar written in the 6thto 5thcentury B.C by the Indian grammarian Panini. This work set the linguistic standards for Classical Sanskrit. It sums up in 4,000 sutras the science of phonetics and grammar that had evolved in the Vedic religion.