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Discuss briefly the causes that contributed to the religious movements of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Analyse their approach to the realities of contemporary life.

  • UPSC 1985
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries saw twin currents of popular religiosity — the Bhakti movement among Hindus and Sufism among Muslims — converge into a broadly similar idiom of personal devotion.

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  • Causes Internal to the Hindu Devotional Tradition
  • Causes Internal to Islamic Mysticism
  • Shared Structural Causes
  • Approach to the Realities of Contemporary Life
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