Round 7: Tossup 8

Building upon his work in The Precepts of Jesus, a reformer from this region founded a Hindu movement that combined Unitarian moral reasoning with the monotheistic worldview that he’d identified within the Upanishads. During the month of Magh, (-5[1])Muslims and Hindus in this region revere the forest spirit Bonbibi, who guards woodcutters and honey-collectors from danger. A collection of “Bhanusimha” poems chronicling the romance of Krishna and Radha was written by a poet from this region using the artificial language of Brajabuli. Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the founder (10[1])of the reform movement Brahmo Samaj, was from this region, which experienced a 19th-century Renaissance in the decades (10[1])following the Battle of (10[1])Plassey. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])what region’s music was (10[1])used to compose various hymns authored by Rabindranath Tagore? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Bengal [or Bangla; accept West Bengal; accept Bangladesh; prompt on the Sundarbans by asking “what broader region is it located in?”]
<KT, Religion> | Packet C - Virginia Tech A, Waterloo A, UCSD A, UBC A
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