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(a) A.L.Basham
(b) Samuel Huntington
(c) Arnold Toynbee
(d) Alvin Tofflier
The correct answers to the above question in:
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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Question : 1
Who is the author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind ?
a) Deepak Chopra
b) Tony Kusher
c) V.S. Naipaul
d) Dom Moraes
Answer »Answer: (a)
Deepak Chopra (born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-born American physician and writer. Chopra has taught at the medical schools of Tufts University, Boston University and Harvard University. He became Chief of Staff at the New England Memorial Hospital (NEMH) in Massachusetts, before establishing a private practice.
In 1985, Chopra met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who invited him to study Ayurveda. Chopra left his position at the NEMH and became the founding president of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, and was later named medical director of the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center.
Chopra was sued for copyright infringement by Robert Sapolsky for using a stress endocrine chart without proper attribution, after the publication of Chopra’s book Ageless Body, Timeless Mind(1993)
Question : 2
Which from the following was authored by Mulk Raj Anand ?
a) A Stranger Called I
b) My God Died Young
c) The Village
d) Dark Room
Answer »Answer: (c)
Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society.
One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglican fiction, he, together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmed Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an international readership. His work includes poetry and essays on a wide range of subjects, as well as autobiographies and novels.
Prominent among his novels are The Village (1939).
Question : 3
Which of the following books is called the ‘Bible of Socialism’?
a) Das Capital
b) Asian Drama
c) Economics of Welfare
d) Value and Capital
Answer »Answer: (a)
In 1867, Karl Marx wrote the first volume of Capital: Critique of Political Economy (Das Kapital) which became known as the “Bible of the Working Class” or the “Bible of Socialism.” The book is a foundational theoretical text in communist philosophy, economics and politics. It offered a critique of the political economy of capitalism.
Question : 4
"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 : 5
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 : 6
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.
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