RAS question
Maharaja Jaswant Singh I of Jodhpur, who served the Mughals, was also known for writing the literary work:
Correct answer: (B) Bhasha Bhooshan.
Maharaja Jaswant Singh I of Jodhpur is credited with writing Bhasha-Bhushan, a work associated with rhetoric and poetics.
Explanation
Maharaja Jaswant Singh I of Jodhpur is remembered not only as a Rajput ruler in Mughal service under Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb, but also as a scholar-warrior. Bhasha Bhooshan was his work on rhetoric and poetics, and the Wikimedia Commons record for the scanned text gives the title as Bhasha-Bhushan and lists Jaswant Singh as the author. That makes option B the direct match. The question tests a common RAS trap: military or court service does not exclude literary authorship, so the ruler has to be linked with his own text rather than with better-known works attached to other Rajasthan figures.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Sangeet Raj is Rana Kumbha's work, not Jaswant Singh I's.
- (C) Prithviraj Raso belongs to Chand Bardai, centuries before Jaswant Singh I, so it cannot be his Mughal-period literary work.
- (D) Nainsi Ri Khyat is attributed to Muhnot Nainsi, Jaswant Singh's diwan, not to the ruler himself.
Concept
This tests the Rajasthan history and culture habit of matching Rajput rulers with literary works. It recurs in RAS because questions often combine a ruler's political career with authorship, as here with a Mughal-serving Jodhpur ruler.