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Bhakti and mysticism of Lai Ded emerged as a social force in Kashmir. Comment.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Lal Ded (also known as Lalleshwari or Lalla Arifa), a fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic-poetess, occupies a place in Kashmir's religious history unlike almost any other regional saint.

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