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(a) Lal Krishna Advani
(b) Soli Sorabji
(c) M.G. Devasahayam
(d) Loknayak Jai Prakash Narayan
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (c)
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Question : 1
Who wrote, ‘Towards Total Revolution’?
a) A.K. Goplan
b) Jayaprakash Narayan
c) Lenin
d) Subash Chandra Bose
Answer »Answer: (b)
‘Towards Total Revolution’ is written by Jayaprakash Narayan. He, popularly referred to as JP or Lok Nayak , was an Indian independence activist, social reformer and political leader.
Question : 2
Name the author of the book A Passage to England :
a) Nirad C. Choudhary
b) Eric Segal
c) E.M. Forster
d) Vikram Seth
Answer »Answer: (a)
Nirad C. Chaudhuri was a Bengali-English writer and cultural commentator. He was born in 1897 in Kishoreganj, which today is part of Bangladesh but at that time was part of Bengal, a region of British India.
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1975 for his biography on Max Müller called Scholar Extraordinary, by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters. In 1992, he was honoured by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom with the title of Commander of Order of the British Empire (CBE).
His 1965 work The Continent of Circe earned him the Duff Cooper Memorial Award, becoming the first and only Indian to be selected for the prize.
Question : 3
Which of the following pair is wrongly matched ?
a) Aristotle – Politics
b) Karl Marx – Das Kapital
c) Plato – Republic
d) Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru – Hind Swaraj
Answer »Answer: (d)
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule is a book written by Gandhi in 1909. It is a book in which he expresses his views on Swaraj, Modern Civilization, Mechanization, etc. It was Gandhi’s first definitive writing.
Question : 4
Who among the following has been awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman for his outstanding achievement in their field and fostering understanding of India abroad ?
a) Ms. Indira Nooyi
b) Sunil Mittal
c) Vikram Seth
d) Laxmi Mittal
Answer »Answer: (c)
He got Pravasi Bharatiya Samman in 2005. Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian author and poet. Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 in a Punjabi family to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
His family lived in many cities including the Bata Shoe Company town of Batanagar, Danapur near Patna, and in London.
Having lived in London for many years, Seth now maintains residences near Salisbury, England, where he is a participant in local literary and cultural events, having bought and renovated the house of the Anglican poet George Herbert in 1996, and in Delhi, where he lives with his parents and keeps his extensive library and papers.
Question : 5
‘A Passage to England’ was written by
a) Khushwant Singh
b) Nayantara Sehgal
c) Nirad C. Chaudhary
d) R.K. Narayan
Answer »Answer: (c)
A passage to England is written by Nirad C. Chaudhary. In 1955, the British Council and the BBC jointly made arrangements to take Chaudhuri to England for eight weeks. He was asked to contribute lectures to the BBC. He contributed eight lectures on British life. Later these lectures are collected in the Passage to England modified and edited.
Question : 6
Which one of the following is correctly matched?
a) Ram Manohar Lohia - The Guilty Man of India’s Partition
b) William Wedderburn - The Great Divide
c) Mahatma Gandhi - Glimpses of the World History
d) Jawaharlal Nehru - Hind Swaraj
Answer »Answer: (a)
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