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Discuss the growth of the Nirguna School of Bhakti Movement emphasising the contribution of Kabir and Nanak to it

  • UPSC 2004
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

The Bhakti movement, spanning roughly the 8th to 17th centuries, split analytically into two theological streams — Saguna (devotion to god with attributes and form, as Rama or Krishna) and Nirguna (devotion to a formless, attribute-less absolute).

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  • Doctrinal Sources of Nirguna Thought
  • Kabir's Doctrinal Synthesis
  • Nanak's Parallel Theology and Its Institutionalisation
  • Wider Geographic Spread of the Nirguna Current
  • Conclusion

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