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Question
Explain the significance (impact) of the Bhakti movement under the following head:
Promoting regional languages and Devotional Literature
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Solution
Promoting regional languages and Devotional Literature: The Bhakti reformers preached to the people in their mother-tongue and it provided an impetus for the development of regional languages such as Hindi Bengali, Marathi, Maithili, Gujarati, etc. Their compositions rank very high in the devotional literature of the world.
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