Question

$• \: What \: is \: the \: impact \: of \: Composite \: culture \: ? \\ • \: Explain \: Sufism \: and \: bhakti \: movement.$
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Answer 1

Impact of the composite culture - shortcut

i) The dress, manners and festivals which the Mughals introduced in India were accepted by the Indians. ii) The trend towards fusion of two cultures is best seen in the field of music. iii) During the reign of Akbar, there was a fusion of Persian and Indian style of painting.

Answer 2

Answer:

1. Composite culture is very broad focusing mainly on tolerance, adaptiveness of a unique individual. The intermingling of Hindu and Islamic religious beliefs gave birth to Sufism. The national freedom struggle also had ingredients of composite culture.
2. The two movements brought a new form of religious expression amongst Muslims and Hindus. The Sufis were mystics who called for liberalism in Islam. They emphasised on an egalitarian society based on universal love. The Bhakti saints transformed Hinduism by introducing devotion or bhakti as the means to attain God.