Question

_____of Mithila was a Bengali poet who enjoyed the patronage of a Hindu ruler as well as of the Sultans of Bengal.
1. Devendranath Tagore
2. Ravindranath Tagore
3. Chandidas
4. Vidyapati Thakur

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Vidyapati Thakur

The Correct Answer is Vidyapati Thakur.

• Vidyapati Thakur of Mithila was a Bengali poet who enjoyed the patronage of a Hindu ruler as well as of the Sultans of Bengal.
• Vidyapati was a Maithili and Sanskrit poet, writer, and polyglot, also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil (the poet cuckoo of Maithili).
• At the time of Vidyapati, the late Prakrit-derived abahatta, had only begun to transition into early Eastern language versions, such as Maithili, Bhojpuri, etc.
• The influence of Vidyapati was described as "analogous to that of Dante in Italy and Chaucer in England" in making these languages.
• His work - Kīrttilatā refers to an event in which the King of Oiniwar, Raja Ga'eśvara, was killed in 1371 by the Turkish commander, Malik Arsalan.
• In 1401, Vidyapati asked for the aid of the Jaunpur Sultan to overthrow Arsalan and install on the throne to the sons of Ga'eśvara, Vīrasi'ha and Kīrttisi'ha.
• Arsalan was deposed with the aid of the Sultan, and Kīrttisi'ha, the oldest son, became Mithila's ruler.

• Debendranath Tagore,  Rabindranath’s father, was a Hindu philosopher and religious reformer.
  • He was an active leader of the Brahmo Samaj.
• Ravindranath Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915.
  • He was a writer in his native Bengal. 
  • The poetry created by him is - Sonar Tari (1894), Gitanjali (1910), The Fugitive.
  • He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.