books & authors section 3 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

‘Towards Total Revolution’ is written by Jayaprakash Narayan. He, popularly referred to as JP or Lok Nayak , was an Indian independence activist, social reformer and political leader.

Answer: (a)

Nirad C. Chaudhuri was a Bengali-English writer and cultural commentator. He was born in 1897 in Kishoreganj, which today is part of Bangladesh but at that time was part of Bengal, a region of British India.

He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1975 for his biography on Max Müller called Scholar Extraordinary, by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters. In 1992, he was honoured by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom with the title of Commander of Order of the British Empire (CBE).

His 1965 work The Continent of Circe earned him the Duff Cooper Memorial Award, becoming the first and only Indian to be selected for the prize.

Answer: (d)

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule is a book written by Gandhi in 1909. It is a book in which he expresses his views on Swaraj, Modern Civilization, Mechanization, etc. It was Gandhi’s first definitive writing.

Answer: (d)