Who among the following was the first to introduce a secular note in poetry?
A. Sultan Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah
B. Madanna
C. Ibrahim Adil Shah II
D. Muhammad Adil Shah
Answer:B
Who among the following was the first to introduce a secular note in poetry?
A. Sultan Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah B. Madanna C. Ibrahim Adil Shah II D. Muhammad Adil Shah
Explanation: Golconda was the intellectual resort of literary men. Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, a contemporary of Akbar, was very fond or literature and architecture. The sultan was not only a great patron or art and literature but was a poet of no mean order. He wrote in Dakhini Urdu, Persian and Telugu and left an extensive diwan or collection. He was the first to introduce a secular note in poetry. Apart from the praise of God and the