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Questions : Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List I List II
A. Bijak 1. Kabirdas
B. Humanyunama 2. Gulbadan Begum
C. Kitab-ul-Hind 3. Al Beruni
D. Padmavat 4. Malik Mohd. Jayasi
Codes: A B C D

(a) 4 3 2 1

(b) 3 4 2 1

(c) 1 2 3 4

(d) 1 3 2 4

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (d)

Kabir was a mystic poet and saint, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. The name Kabir comes from Arabic alKab?r which means ‘The Great’ – the 37th name of God in Islam.

The Imperial Princess Gulbadan Begum was a Perso-Turkic Princess, the daughter of Emperor Babur, she is most known as the author of Humayun Nama, the account of the life of her half-brother, Humayun.

Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad albiruni known as Alberonius in Latin and Albiruni in English was a Persian-Khwarezmian Muslim scholar and polymath from the Khwarezm region.

Malik Muhammad Jayasi was an Indian poet who wrote in the Avadhi dialect of Hindi. He hailed from Jais, presently a city in the Rae Barieli district in Uttar Pradesh.

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Question : 1

In which of the following year M.K. Gandhi wrote ‘Hind Swaraj’?

a) 1910

b) 1908

c) 1914

d) 1909

Answer: (d)

Question : 2

What is the name of the book written by Panini ?

a) Mitakshara

b) Ashtadhyayi

c) Mahabhashya

d) Madhyamika Karika

Answer: (b)

Ashtadhyayi is a Sanskrit treatise on grammar written in the 6thto 5thcentury B.C by the Indian grammarian Panini. This work set the linguistic standards for Classical Sanskrit. It sums up in 4,000 sutras the science of phonetics and grammar that had evolved in the Vedic religion.

Question : 3

Who is the author of book ‘We Indians’?

a) Khushwant Singh

b) Muluk Raj Anand

c) Nirad C. Choudry

d) Subramaniya Swamy

Answer: (a)

‘We Indians’ is written by Khushwant Singh. He analyses the good and the bad of Indian character in this unusual and timely book.

Question : 4

‘A passage to England’ was written by

a) Khushwant Singh

b) Nayantra Sehgal

c) Nirad C Chaudhury

d) RK Narayan

Answer: (c)

A Passage to England is a book comprising the lectures of Nirad C. Chaudhury.

Question : 5

List I List II
(Scholars) (Patrons)
A. Dandin 1. Narasimhavarma Pallava
B. Bharavi 2. Simha Vishnu Pallava
C. Gunadhyaya 3. Hala of Satavahana
D. Inasena 4. Amoghavarsha of Rashtrakuta
Codes: A B C D

a) 2 3 1 4

b) 2 3 4 1

c) 1 2 3 4

d) 4 2 3 1

Answer: (c)

Question : 6

The author of the book ‘India Divided’ was

a) Narendra Dev

b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

c) Asaf Ali

d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Answer: (d)

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