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Answer: (a)

Vande Mataram is a poem from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 1882 novel Anandamath. An Ode to Mother Bengal as Mother goddess, it was written in Bengali and Sanskrit. It is a hymn to the Mother Land and played a vital role in the Indian Independence movement.

Answer: (a)

On the Origin of Species (On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection), published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.

It introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection.

Answer: (d)

David Ricardo ( 1772-1823): The Principal of Political Economy and Taxation.

John Violet Robinson: The Accumulation of Capital Adam Smith : (1772-90) An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of Wealth of Nations’’.

In this book, he argued that the greatest prosperity was produced by an economy in which the invisible hand of perfect competition ruled with a minimum of government supervision.

Answer: (e)

Gandhi’s ethical thinking was heavily influenced by a handful of books, which he repeatedly meditated upon.

• They included especially Plato’s Apology, (which he translated into his native Gujarati);
• William Salter’s Ethical Religion (1889);
• Henry David Thoreau’s On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1847);
• Leo Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1893); and
• John Ruskin’s Unto this Last (1862), which he also translated into Gujarati.

Ruskin inspired his decision to live an austere life on a commune, at first on the Phoenix Farm in Natal and then on the Tolstoy Farm just outside Johannesburg, South Africa.

Answer: (c)

Navjivan was a weekly newspaper published by Gandhi, in Gujarati, from 1919 to 1931, from Ahmedabad. Swami Anand took the reins of ‘Navjeevan’ at the end of 1919.