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The mission of Kabir was to preach a religion of love which would unite all castes and creeds. Explain

  • UPSC 2020
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

Kabir (c. 1440–1518) did not present himself as a philosopher constructing a theological system; his Dohas, preserved chiefly in the Bijak of the Kabir Panth, read instead as a sustained, plain-spoken argument that love (prem) was the only force capable of binding a society fractured along both caste and religious lines.

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  • Love as the Organising Principle
  • A Double-Edged Critique: Hindu Ritualism and Muslim Orthodoxy
  • Caste as the Second Front of the Unificatory Mission
  • The Path of Bhakti Over Knowledge or Ritual
  • How Far Did the Mission Succeed?
  • Conclusion

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