General Awareness | Books and Authors

General Awareness | Books and Authors

Feb 2, 2025 - 12:56 Updated: Feb 2, 2025 - 16:17
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1. The book 'India Wins Freedom' is the autobiography of

Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Jawaharlal Nehru
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Humayun Kabir

2. Who has written the book named 'Gita Rahasya'?

Mahatma Gandhi
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Vinoba Bhave
Gopal Krishna Gokhale

3. The memoirs entitled 'Bapu : My Mother' was written by

B.R. Nanda
Rajkumari Amrita Kaur
Mahadev Desai
Manubehn

4. Which one of the following books was written by Tilak?

India in Transition
Gita Rahasya
Gokhale - My Political Guru
Discovery of India

5. 'Srimad Bhagavat Gita Rahasya' was written by

Aurobindo Ghosh
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Gopal Krishna Gokhale (
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

6. Aurobindo Ghosh wrote

Extremist Movement
Moderate Movement
Kesari
The Life Divine

7. Who was the first historian who wrote about 'Feudalism' in Rajasthan during the 19th Century?

Col. James Tod
Dr. L.P. Tessitori
George Grearson
John Thomas

8. Who among the following is the author of 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India'?

R.C. Dutt
Henry Cotton
Mahatma Gandhi
Dadabhai Naoroji

9. The book 'The Man Who Divided India' was written by

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Rafiq Zakaria
Larry Collins and Dominque Lapierre

10. Who was the author of Indian Unrest?

Dadabhai Naoroji
Annie Besant
Lala Lajpat Rai
Valentine Chirol

11. Who wrote the book 'A Nation In The Making'?

Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Surendra Nath Bannerjee
B.G. Tilak
S.C. Bose

12. The book entitled 'Indian Struggle' on Indian National Movement was written by

Subhash Chandra Bose
Pattabhi Sitaramaiyya
Jawaharlal Nehru
None of the above

13. The book 'Springing Tiger' is the biography of

Bhagat Singh
Subhash Chandra Bose
Chandra Shekhar Azad
Ramprasad Bismil

14. Who is the author of 'Annihilation of Caste'?

Jyotirao Phule
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Kanshi Ram
Ram Mohan Roy

15. The book 'Guilty Man of India's Partition' was authored by

Jawaharlal Nehru
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Sarojini Naidu

16. The author of 'Hind Swaraj' was

B.G. Tilak
Vinoba Bhave
Chandra Shekhar Azad
Mahatma Gandhi

17. In which of the following books did Mahatma Gandhi call British Parliament as sterile and prostitute?

Sarvodaya or Universal dawn
An Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments with Truth
Hind Swaraj
The Story of a Satyagrahi

18. Who wrote the book 'Gokhale-my political guru'?

M.A. Jinnah
M.K. Gandhi
Shaukat Ali
C.R. Das

19. The author of the book 'India Divided' was

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Narendra Dev
Asaf Ali

20. The famous book 'Foundation of Indian Culture' is authored by

Rabindranath Tagore
Shri Aurobindo
Radhakrishnan
Bhagwan Das

21. The author of the novel 'Chandrakanta' is

Bhartendu Harishchandra
Premchand
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Devkinandan Khatri

22. The famous book, 'Das Capital' was written by

Amartya Sen
Karl Marx
Gandhiji
Jawaharlal Nehru

23. Which one of the following was an emigre Communist journal of M.N. Roy?

Kisan Sabha
The Worker
Vanguard
Anushilan

24. Which one of the following books is associated with the rise of the national movement in India?

Gitanjali
Anand Math
Satyarth Prakash
Gita Rahasya

25. The novel 'Durgesha Nandini' is written by

Rabindra Nath Tagore
Taraknath Gangopadhyaya
Swarna Kumari
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

26. The author of 'Rajaniti Ratnakara' is

Chandesvara
Vidyapati
Jyotiresvara
Haribrahmadeva

27. The song of Vande Mataram which served as a great inspiration to the patriotic song of India in their freedom struggle is in book

Anand Math
Durgesha Nandini
Meghanad-Vadh
Virangana Kavya

28. Who was the author of revolutionary creation 'Chetavani Ra Chugatiya"?

Shyamji Krishna Verma
Damodar Das Rathi
Kesari Singh Barahath
Rao Gopal Singh

29. Mahatma Gandhi wrote his autobiography originally in

Hindi
Marathi
Gujarati
English

30. In which of the following year M.K. Gandhi wrote 'Hind Swaraj'?

1908
1909
1910
1914

31. The famous work of Bhartendu Harishchandra is

Mayanka Manjari
Bharat Durdasha
Nutan Brahmachari
Chandra Kanta Santati

32. Who wrote the play 'Andher Nagari Chaupat Raja'?

Govardhan Ram M. Tripathi
Munshi Premchand
Fakir Mohan Senapati
Bhartendu Harishchandra

33. Subramaniam Bharati was the poet of which language?

Telugu
Tamil
Kannada
Malayalam

34. Who among the following assumed title 'Rashtrakavi' for emphatical co-operation in Indian independence struggle by his literary creations?

Maithili Sharan Gupta
Jai Shankar Prasad
Sumitra Nandan Pant
Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'

35. The author of the book 'Towards Struggle' was

Jawaharlal Nehru
Ram Manohar Lohia
Jai Prakash Narayan
J.B. Kripalani

36. Who wrote the book 'Prison Diary'?

Jai Prakash Narayan
Munshi Premchand
Morarji Desai
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

37. Who wrote the book 'A Passage to India'?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Minoo Masani
E.M. Forster
None of the above

38. The book 'India's Struggle for Independence' was authored by

Tarachand
S.N. Sen
R.C. Majumdar
Bipan Chandra

39. The Book 'Mother India' was written by

Catherine Mayo
Lala Lajpat Rai
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bipin Chandra Pal

40. Who is the author of flag song (Jhanda Geet) of India?

Rabindra Nath Tagore
Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
Shyamlal Prashad Gupta
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi

41. The Nationalist song 'Aie Mere Watan Ke Logo' had been written by poet

Javed Akhtar
Pradeep
Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
Maithili Sharan Gupta

42. Poet Iqbal who wrote 'Sare Jahan Se Achcha' was related to which State?

Delhi
Uttar Pradesh
Punjab
Hyderabad

43. Who wrote the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Achcha Hindustan Hamara'?

Sahir Ludhianvi
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Muhammad Iqbal
Bahadur Shah Zafar

44. 'Mazhab Nahi Sikhata Aapas Mein Bair Rakhna' who wrote these lines in his works?

Mirza Ghalib
Muhammad Iqbal
Raghupati Sahai Firaq
Mahatma Gandhi

45. The pamphlet entitled 'Why I Am an Atheist' was written by

B.K. Dutt
Bhagat Singh
Rajguru
Yashpal

46. The song 'Amar Sonar Bangla' written during the Swadeshi Movement of India inspired the liberation struggle of Bangladesh and was adopted as the National Anthem of Bangladesh. Who wrote this song?

Rajni Kanta Sen
Dwijendralal Roy
Mukunda Das
Rabindra Nath Tagore

47. Who composed 'Jana Gana Mana'?

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Aurobindo Ghosh
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Sarojini Naidu

48. Who of the following is the author of a collection of a poem called 'Golden Threshold'?

Aruna Asaf Ali
Annie Besant
Sarojini Naidu
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

49. Who is the author of the book, 'Landmarks in Indian Constitutional and National Development'?

Bipin Chandra
Gurmukh Nihal Singh
B.R. Nanda
Ram Gopal

50. In which one of the following jails, the book 'Discovery of India' was written by Jawaharlal Nehru?

Alipur Central Jail
Yerwada Jail
Naini Central Jail
Ahmadnagar Fort Jail

51. Who is the author of the book, 'Discovery of India'?

Mahatma Gandhi
B.R. Ambedkar
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Jawaharlal Nehru

52. Who was the author of the book 'Bandi Jiwan'?

Dinbandhu Mitra
Hema Chandrakar
Ram Prasad Bismil
Sachindra Nath Sanyal

53. The report 'Journey through the Kingdom of Oudh in the year 1849- 50' was written by

W.H. Sleeman
Outram
Bishop Heber
None of the above

54. 'Indian War of Independence 1857' is written by

S.N. Sen
R.C. Majumdar
V.D. Savarkar
S.B. Chaudhuri

55. The Roots of Ancient India' was written by

D.K. Chakravarti
D.P. Agrawal
W.A. Fairservis
A. Ghosh

56. The author of the book entitled 'Planning and the Poor' is

B.S. Minhas
Gunnar Myrdal
L.C. Jain
L.K. Jha

57. Who among the following is the author of the book 'The Problems of the Far East'?

Lawrence
Curzon
Churchill
Lytton

58. Who wrote 'The Untold Story'?

Brigadier Dalvi
General Kaul
Admiral Bhagwat
Air Marshal Keelor

59. The famous book 'The Alphabet' was written by

Buhler
David Diringer
G.S. Ojha
Sir William Jons

60. The book 'The Proudest Day' was authored by

Alok Bhalla
Durga Das
Chandra Kumar and Mohindra Puri
Anthony Read and David Fisher

61. Whose autobiography is the book 'My Music, My Life'?

Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
Pandit Ravi Shankar
Ustad Zakir Hussain

62. The author of 'Love and Longing in Bombay' is

Vikram Chandra
Arundhati Roy
Raj Kamal Jha
Kiran Desai

63. 'Godan' and 'Gaban' are the works of the same author. What is his name?

Rabindra Nath Thakur
Munshi Premchand
Kalidas
Nirala

64. The author of 'Nirmala' is

Jaishankar Prasad
Munshi Premchand
Maithili Sharan Gupta
Mohan Rakesh

65. Which one of the following books is not written by Kalidas?

Meghadutam
Kumarasambhavam
Uttararamacharitam
Ritusamharam

66. Soj-e-Vatan is the book written by

Mahadevi Verma
Premchand
Sumitra Nandan Pant
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'

67. The author of 'Malgudi Days' is

K. Abbas
R.K. Narayan
Laxman Seth
Mulkraj Anand

68. The author of 'The Golden Gate' is

Amitabh Ghosh
Ernest Hemingway
Sir Walter Scott
Vikram Seth

69. Who among the following Journalists has written his autobiography entitled the 'Lucknow Boy'?

Vinod Mehta
Alok Mehta
Narendra Mohan
Pritish Nandi

70. 'Silent Spring' was written by

Rachel Carson
Linnaeus
Richard Wetherald
Joseph Fourier

71. Who wrote 'The Satanic Verses'?

Arundhati Roy
Vikram Seth
Salman Rushdie
Taslima Nasreen

72. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights' is a book written by

Jai Ram Ramesh
Ruskin Bond
Salman Rushdie
Jhumpa Lahiri

73. The author of the book "The Road Ahead' is

Bill Clinton
Bill Gates
Vikram Seth
Salman Rushdie

74. The author of 'Manas ke Hans' is

Jai Shankar Prasad
Premchand
Amritlal Nagar
None of the above

75. Sumitra Nandan Pant has been known as

Bhaktivadi poet
Chhayavadi poet
Pragativadi poet
Veer ras poet

76. Who is Cornelius Fudge in the novel 'Harry Potter'?

Friend of Harry Potter
The Minister of Magic
A King
None of the above

77. Who has written the book 'Heart of India'?

Khushwant Singh
Mark Tully
R.K. Narayanan
Anita Desai

78. The author of the book 'Lajja' is

Sheikh Mujibur Rehman
Taslima Nasrin
Kiran Bedi
Arundhati Roy

79. What is the name of the controversial novel written by Taslima Nasrin?

Tamas
Water
Lajja
Fire

80. The Book 'Nineteen Eighty Four' is written by

R.K. Narayanan
Khushwant Singh
George Orwell
None of the above

81. Who wrote the fiction "The God of Small Things' in English?

Shobha De
R.K. Narayanan
Mulkraj Anand
Arundhati Roy

82. Who is the author of 'Mrignayani'?

Vrindavan Lal Verma
Acharya Chatursen
Amritlal Nagar
Bhagavati Charan Verma

83. Which of the following Hindi works was written first?

Indravati
Padmavati
Madhumalti
Mrigavati

84. 'India from Curzon to Nehru' is the book of

Kuldip Nayyar
Durga Das
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Jawaharlal Nehru

85. The book entitled 'India from Curzon to Nehru and After' is written by

Durga Das
Web Miller
Frank Moraes
Louis Fischer

86. Who has written 'An Equal Music'?

Shobha De
Vikram Seth
Khushwant Singh
Anita Desai

87. The writer of 'Bikhre Moti' is

Muktibodh
Agyeya
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
Dinkar Sonwalkar

88. What is the name of the writer of 'Naukar Ki Kameez'?

Ashok Vajpayee
Vinod Kumar Shukla
Bhawani Prasad Mishra
Prabhakar Shukla

89. Who was the writer of the novel 'David Copperfield'?

Thomas Hardy
Charles Lamb
Charles Dickens
Thomas Mann

90. The story of the book named 'The Proudest Day' is related to

The integration of the Indian States
The independence of India
The Pokhran nuclear explosion
The formation of NDA Government in the centre

91. Who wrote the 'Kamayani'?

Jai Shankar Prasad
Shamsher Bahadur Singh
Girija Kumar Mathur
Mahadevi Verma

92. Who wrote the book 'Geographical Factors in Indian History'?

K.M. Panikkar
Toyanbee
M.N. Srinivas
Jamna Das

93. Who wrote the book named 'Baiga'?

S.C. Roy
D.N. Majumdar
Verrier Elwin
H. Rizle

94. Which of the following novels is not written by Sharat Chandra?

Charitraheen
Rangbhumi
Srikant
Shesh Prashna

95. What is the name of Khushwant Singh's autobiography?

The Last Moor Last Sigh
Truth Love and a Little Malice
The End Racism
None of the above

96. Who is the author of the book 'New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy'?

A.B. Vajpayee
Jaswant Singh
P.C. Alexander
Yashwant Sinha