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Question : 36 [MPPCS (Pre) 2013]

The author of the book ‘World of All Human Rights : Soli J. Sorabjee A Festschriff’ is

a) R.N. Trivedi

b) Chetan Bhagat

c) Arun Jaitely

d) Vishnu Sahai

Answer: (a)

Question : 37 [Uttarakhand PCS (Pre) 2010, 06]

Who wrote the book ‘A Passage to India’?

a) E.M. Forster

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) None of the above

d) Minoo Masani

Answer: (a)

Question : 38 [SSC Statistical Investigators 2006]

Which of the following is correctly matched ?

a) “Dilli Chalo” — Mahatma Gandhi

b) “Swaraj is my birthright” — Swami Dayanand

c) “Do or die” — Jawahar Lal Nehru

d) “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” —Lal Bahadur Shastri

Answer: (d)

Jai Jawan Jai Kisan was a slogan given to India by the Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1965. It means hail the soldier and hail the farmer.

Soon after Shastri took over the prime ministership of India after Nehru’s death. India was attacked by Pakistan. At the same time, there was a scarcity of foodgrains in the country.

Shastri gave the slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan to enthuse the soldiers to defend India and simultaneously cheering farmers to do their best to increase the production of food grains to reduce dependence on imports.

It became a very popular slogan. After Pokaran tests in 1998, Atal Bihari Vajpayee added Jai Vigyan (Hail knowledge) to the slogan to underline the importance of knowledge in India’ progress.

Question : 39 [SSC CHSL 2015]

Who wrote ‘Discovery of India’?

a) Jawahar Lal Nehru

b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

c) Mahatama Gandhi

d) APJ Abdul Kalam

Answer: (a)

The Discovery of India was written by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in 1942–46 at Ahmednagar fort in Maharashtra. The book is widely considered one of the finest modern works on Indian history.

Question : 40 [UPPCS (Pre) 2000]

Which one of the following is correctly matched?

a) Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq - Sir Syed Ahmad

b) Ailan-i-Haq - Bipin Chandra Pal

c) Yugantar - Aurobindo Ghosh

d) Al-Helal - Dr. Zaqir Hussain

Answer: (a)

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