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Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

Na Khatam Hone Wali Kahani is a book by Indian film maker Mahesh Bhatt. The book is his autobiography.

Answer: (c)

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was written by the English economist John Maynard Keynes. The book, generally considered to be his magnum opus, is largely credited with creating the terminology and shape of modern macroeconomics.

Answer: (a)

Lucius Flavius Arrianus ‘Xenophon’, known in English as Arrian, and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Greek historian, a public servant, a military commander and a philosopher of the Roman period.

Indica is also the name of a similar book by Megasthenes that also describes the history of India and was a major source from which Arrian drew.

Megasthenes (ca. 350 – 290 BCE) was a Greek ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period, author of the work Indica. He was born in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and became an ambassador of Seleucus I of the Seleucid dynasty possibly to Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra, India.

However, the exact date of his embassy is uncertain. Scholars place it before 298 BC, the date of Chandragupta’s death.

Answer: (c)

Mrichhakatikam is written by Shudrak. Sanskrit dramas like Mrichhakatikam by Shudrak and Shakuntalam by Kalidas give some very vivid pictures of police force at work in the ancient times.