Find the odd one out from the given alternatives:

Correct — D.
Rule: three of the names belong to the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar.

Tansen was his court musician, Birbal his courtier, and Abul Fazl his historian, author of the Akbarnama.

Rabindranath Tagore, born in 1861, lived more than 250 years after Akbar's death in 1605 → option (d).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Tansen — Tansen was the musician at Akbar's court, so he belongs in the same group as Birbal and Abul Fazl.
• (b)
  Birbal — Birbal was a courtier of Akbar, remembered in folk tales for his wit. He sits with Tansen and Abul Fazl.
• (c)
  Abul Fazl — Abul Fazl was Akbar's court historian and wrote the Akbarnama, so he belongs to the Akbar's-court group.

Odd-one-out with names: find the group that holds three of the four and leaves exactly one outside.

Tansen, Birbal and Abul Fazl all served Akbar, who ruled from 1556 to 1605. Rabindranath Tagore belongs to a different age: the poet of Gitanjali, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

Key facts

• Tansen, Birbal and Abul Fazl were all at the court of Akbar.
• Abul Fazl wrote the Akbarnama, whose third volume is the Ain-i-Akbari.
• Akbar ruled from 1556 to 1605. Tagore was born in 1861.
• Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

Common traps

• Grouping by music (Tansen, Tagore): it splits the names 2–2 and isolates nobody
• Marking Abul Fazl odd because his is the least familiar name

No directly related past PYQ was found.