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Q. “Though Sri Ramakrishna became the prophet of neo-Hinduism, he never claimed to have founded any new religion.” Elaborate. [UPSC, 2014]

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Q. “Though Sri Ramakrishna became the prophet of neo-Hinduism, he never claimed to have founded any new religion.” Elaborate. [UPSC, 2014] ©selfstudyhistory.com Ans: The reformist organisations like the Brahmo Samaj in Bengal, which was more modernist in its approach, was weakened after the 1870s by internal dissent and divisions. This was followed by the emergence […]

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Q. “Bhakti and Sufi movements served the same social purpose.” Discuss. [UPSC, 2017]

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Q. “Bhakti and Sufi movements served the same social purpose.” Discuss. [UPSC, 2017]  Ans: The Islamic mysticism was known as Sufism. It aims at establishing direct communion between God and man through personal experience of mystery. Bhakti as a religious concept means devotional surrender to a personally conceived Supreme God for attaining salvation. The relation […]

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