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Answer these question in 30–40 words.
Find at least two instances in the text which tell you that Bismillah Khan loves India and Benaras.
Solution
The first instance is when he turned down his student’s offer to start a shehnai school in U.S.A. The second instance is when Khansaab was asked by Shekhar Gupta about moving to Pakistan during the partition, he said that he would never leave Benaras.
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