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Answer this question in 30–40 words.
Find at least two instances in the text which tell you that Bismillah Khan loves India and Benaras.
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Solution
The first instance is when he turned down his student’s offer to start a shehnai school in U.S.A. The second instance is when Khansaab was asked by Shekhar Gupta about moving to Pakistan during the partition, he said that he would never leave Benaras.
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