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Write brief essay on Sufism in North India.

  • UPSC 2006
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

North India — the Delhi-Agra-Ajmer axis, Punjab, and the wider Gangetic plain — was the primary theatre in which Sufism took organized, durable root on Indian soil, making the region's specific silsilah geography central to understanding the movement's Indian career.

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  • The Chishti Centres: Ajmer, Delhi, Fatehpur Sikri
  • The Suhrawardi Centres: Multan and Punjab
  • Interaction with North Indian Bhakti and Vernacular Communities
  • Regional Contrast with the Deccan and Bengal
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