Bhakti-Sufi Traditions Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts — History STD 12 Humanities — Question

Examine the repressive measures adopted by the British to subdue the rebels of 1857.

Read this short inscription and answer:
In the year 33 of the maharaja Huvishka (a Kushana ruler), in the first month of the hot season on the eighth day, a Bodhisatta was set up at Madhuvanaka by the bhikkhuni Dhanavati, the sister’s daughter of the bhikkhuni Buddhamita, who knows the Tipitaka, the female pupil of the bhikkhu Bala, who knows the Tipitaka, together with her father and mother.

1. How did Dhanavati date her inscription?
2. Why do you think she installed an image of the Bodhisatta?
3. Who were the relatives she mentioned?
4. What Buddhist text did she know?
5. From whom did she learn this text?

Who were Dhamma Mahamattas? What was their role?

“The burials in Harappan sites reveal the economic and social differences amongst the people living within a particular culture.” Give two evidences in support of your answer.

"The rulers of vijayanagara innovated and developed new traditoins in the virupaksha temple." Elaborate.

Describe the process of manuscript production in the Mughal court.

Mention the two ideas of Brahmanical system challenged by the Lingaytas.

What did Buddha do after his enlightenment?

Name the states that were the hub of the colonial economy and their main function.

How did Karaikkal Ammaiyar become the greatest figure of Nayanar tradition? Explain.