Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched?

The correct answer is C. The pairing Raskhan - Rasik Priya is wrong because Rasik Priya was written by Keshavdas (c. 1591), the Orchha court poet and a major figure of the Riti tradition. It is a Brajbhasha treatise on rasa and nayika-bheda. Raskhan, a Muslim Krishna devotee, is known for Prem Vatika and Sujan Ras, which are devotional and romantic verse.

The other three pairs are correct:

• Dhruvadas - Bhagat Namawali: Dhruvdas, of the Radha-vallabh sect, wrote this Brajbhasha work on bhakta lives.
• Nabhadas - Bhaktamal: a hagiographic compendium of devotees, written around the turn of the 17th century.
• Usman - Chitrawali: a Sufi romance composed in 1613 in the Awadhi tradition, in Jahangir's period.

The concept here is the Bhakti and Riti literature of the 15th-17th centuries, which the syllabus covers under medieval literature. For Mains, it shows how Hindu devotional and Muslim Sufi poets wrote in the same vernacular idiom, a strand of the composite culture of the Mughal age.

Trap: Aspirants get misled by Raskhan's Krishna-bhakti reputation and assume every Krishna-themed rasa text is his. Remember the author of Rasik Priya is Keshavdas.