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Question : 31 [SSC CPO 2011]
The book ‘Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India’ was in news some time back and was banned in some Indian States including Gujarat. The author of the book is –
a) Michael Ondaatje
b) Duncan Green
c) Joseph Lelyveld
d) Jack Welch
Answer »Answer: (c)
Joseph Lelyveld (born April 5, 1937) was executive editor of the New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines.
He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.
Question : 32
Who among the following writers wrote the non-fiction book ‘India: A Million Mutinies Now’?
- Anita Nair
- Faraaz Kazi
- V. S. Naipaul
- Amitabha Bagchi
a) 3 only
b) 1 and 2
c) 2 and 3
d) 1 and 4
Answer »Answer: (a)
Naipaul expresses serious misgivings about Indian attitudes and the Indian way of life. On the other hand, Naipaul notes the economic growth and its associated emancipation of the various people of India.
Question : 33 [UPPCS (Pre) 2013]
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List I | List II |
A. Lady Catherine Mayo | 1. Freedom at Midnight |
B. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre | 2. Mother India |
C. Ram Manohar Lohia | 3. Discovery of India |
D. Jawaharlal Nehru | 4. Guilty Men of India’s Partition |
a) 1 2 4 3
b) 2 1 4 3
c) 4 3 2 1
d) 1 2 3 4
Answer »Answer: (b)
Question : 34 [SSC CML 2001]
"Life Divine" is a book written by
a) Tagore
b) Sri Aurobindo
c) Gandhi
d) Radhakrishnan
Answer »Answer: (b)
Life Divine is the philosophical magnum opus of Sri Aurobindo. It combines a synthesis of western thought and eastern spirituality with his own original insights.
The Life Divine covers topics such as the human aspiration, the emergence of life in the cosmos from out of a Divine Source, the evolution of matter to spirit in the universe, the division and dualities inherent in human consciousness, the way out of man's ignorance through an evolution of consciousness, and the spiritual destiny of life on earth.
Question : 35 [SSC CML 2001]
Who is the author of the book “The Clash of Civilisation”?
a) A.L.Basham
b) Samuel Huntington
c) Arnold Toynbee
d) Alvin Tofflier
Answer »Answer: (b)
The Clash of Civilizations is a theory that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world.
It was proposed by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington in a 1992 lecture at the American Enterprise Institute, which was then developed in a 1993 Foreign Affairs article titled "The Clash of Civilizations?", in response to Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man.
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