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Questions : Arundhati Roy is the author of :

(a) Disgrace

(b) My Childhood Days

(c) God of Small Things

(d) The Tin Drum

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how much’. It won the Booker Prize in 1997.

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Question : 1

‘The Roots of Ancient India’ was written by

a) W.A. Fairservis

b) D.K. Chakravarti

c) A. Ghosh

d) D.P. Agrawal

Answer: (a)

Question : 2

The author of the book “India Wins Freedom” is

a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

b) Indira Gandhi

c) Kuldeep Nayyar

d) Jawahar Lal Nehru

Answer: (a)

India Wins Freedom is a historical and semibiographical work by Indian leader Maulana Abul Kalam Azad that recounts and analyses the events of the Indian independence movement.

Question : 3

A book entitled “The Hindus : An Alternative History” is written by

a) B.R. Ambedkar

b) Salman Rushdie

c) Shobha De

d) Wendy Doniger

Answer: (d)

The Hindus : An Alternative History is a book by American Indologist, Wendy Doniger which the author describes as an “alternative to the narrative of Hindu history that they tell. It was published in March 2009.

Question : 4

The famous work of Bhartendu Harishchandra is

a) Nutan Brahmachari

b) Mayanka Manjari

c) Chandra Kanta Santati

d) Bharat Durdasha

Answer: (d)

Question : 5

Who is the author of the book ‘New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy’?

a) P.C. Alexander

b) A.B. Vajpayee

c) Yashwant Sinha

d) Jaswant Singh

Answer: (b)

Question : 6

Who wrote the play “Uttararamacharita”?

a) Tulsidas

b) Sudraka

c) Harsha

d) Bhavabhuti

Answer: (d)

Bhavabhuti was an 8th-century scholar of India noted for his plays and poetry, written in Sanskrit. His plays are considered equivalent to the works of Kalidasa.

Bhavbhuti was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family of Padmapura, Vidarbha, central India, in Gondia district, on Maharashtra and MP border. His real name was SrikanthaNilakantha, and he was the son of Nilakantha and Jatukarni. He received his education at ‘Padmapawaya’, a place some 42 km South-West of Gwalior.

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