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1 pointsWho wrote the famous book - 'We the people'?
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1 pointsWho amongst the following is the author of the book Economic Nightmare of India?
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1 pointsWho wrote the Book Midnights Children which was selected for prestigious "Booker Award"?
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Midnight's Children is a 1981 book by Salman Rushdie about India's transition from British colonialism to independence. It is considered an example of postcolonial literature and magical realism. The story is expressed through various characters and is contexted by actual historical events as with historical fiction. It was selected for prestigeous "Booker Award".
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1 pointsWhich of the following is NOT written by Munshi Premchand?
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1 pointsWhich of the following is NOT written by Munshi Premchand?
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1 pointsLong walk to Freedom is a book written by
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1 pointsWho is the author of the book 'Forbidden Verses'?
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1 pointsWho was author of Mahabashya?
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1 pointsThe lead character in the film 'The Bandit Queen' has been played by
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1 pointsWhich of the following was not written by Swamy Dayananda Saraswathi?
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1 pointsWhich of the following books has been written by Vikram Seth?
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1 pointsWho is author of Glimpses of World History?
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1 pointsWho wrote the line: ' A thing of beauty is a joy forever'?
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1 pointsWho has written the book 'My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir'?
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1 pointsWho wrote the Pancha Thantra in Sanskrit?
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1 pointsThe book 'To Live or Not Live' was written by
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1 pointsThe book Wings of Fire is biography of ___________
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1 pointsIn India the first television programme was broadcasted in
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1 pointsThe stories of Malgudi Days were written by______
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1 points'A Voice for Freedom' is a book written by
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1 pointsWho is the father of English Poetry?
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1 pointsMadhu Sala the book of poetry is written by
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1 pointsThe popular TV serial 'Neem ka Ped' was written by
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1 pointsWho is author of Gulliver Travells
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1 pointsWho wrote 'War and Peace'?
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1 pointsWho was the author of Das Capital?
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1 pointsWhich of the book was written by Graham Greene?
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1 pointsWho is author of Das Kapital?
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1 pointsGeorge Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was
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1 pointsThe song Vande Matharam was from the book written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
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1 points'Mirchchhakatika' was written by
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1 pointsWho wrote the book Teen Idols for Today?
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1 pointsThe famous book 'Anandmath' was authored by
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1 pointsWho is author of the guide (Book)?
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1 pointsWho directed the film '1942: A love story'?
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1 pointsWho is the author of the book Gardner?
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1 pointsWho is the author of famous statement: "That Government is the best which governs least"?
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1 pointsWho wrote the book India wins freedom?
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1 pointsWhich of the following English films was the first one to be dubbed in Hindi?
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1 pointsWho wrote Hindhu view of life?
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1 points"The Jungle Books" are more than just Mowgli. Which of these stories does not appear in "The Jungle Books"?
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1 pointsFrom whom did Mowgli get the idea for how to defeat the Dhole, the Red Dogs?
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1 pointsWho is the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four?
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1 pointsOn which Greek island is Gerald Durrell's famous book "My Family And Other Animals" set?
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1 pointsThe footballer Roy of the Rovers appeared in which children's comic?
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1 pointsWho is the author of Sense And Sensibility?
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1 pointsWho are "The Little People of the Rocks", who Mowgli uses against the Red Dogs?
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1 points"Tomorrow is just another day." Which famous American novel ends with this sentence?
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1 pointsWhich “iconic” author appears on the cover of the Beatles Sgt Pepper LP?
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1 pointsWhich author is Kipling referring to when he writes "He had 'jazzed' the motif of the "Jungle Books" and, I imagine, had thorougly enjoyed himself"?
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1 pointsWhich play by George Bernard Shaw is based on the mythical Greek story of a sculptor who fell in love with Galatea, a lovely statue made by him?
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1 pointsIn which city's open market did Marks and Spencer's start?
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1 pointsWhich literary award did Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter Of Maladies win?
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1 pointsWho is the Author of ' Wuthering Heights'?
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1 pointsWho wrote the songs of 'Kaho naa...Pyaar Hai'?
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1 pointsWhich of the following has NOT been seriously suggested as being the true author of Shakespeare's works?
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1 pointsSishu is the literary work of which Indian author?
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1 pointsWho was played by Kenneth Branagh in "Hamlet" (1996)?
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1 pointsWho is the Author of 'Les Miserables'?
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1 pointsWho is the author of Moby Dick?
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1 pointsWho is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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1 pointsWho is the Author of 'Around The World In Eighty Days'?
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1 pointsWho is the Author of 'The Name Of The Rose'?
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1 pointsWho is the Author of 'The Three Musketeers'?
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1 pointsWho wrote 'Devdas'?
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1 pointsWho wrote the original'Panchatantra'?
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1 pointsWhat was the monumental work of Dandin?
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1 pointsWho guards the treasure chamber where Mowgli finds the King's Ankus?
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1 pointsIn "Letting in the Jungle", who is Mowgli's chief ally in his destruction of the village?
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1 pointsWho wrote the 'Geet Gobindom'?
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1 pointsWho is also called the 'Bidrohi Kobi' in Bengali literature?
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1 pointsWhich famous national leader of India has written books on the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates and the ancient Roman king Marcus Aurelius?
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1 pointsWho is also called the 'Bidrohi Kobi' in Bengali literature?
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List of Important Books and Authors
| No. | Books | Authors |
| 01 | My experiments with Truth | Mahatma M.K.Gandhi |
| 02 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| 03 | Geetanjali | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 04 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| 05 | The Merchant of venice | William shakespeare |
| 06 | The Moon and Six pense | Somerset Maughan |
| 07 | Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come | John Bunyan |
| 08 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| 09 | Utopia | Sir Thomas Moor |
| 10 | Origin of species | charles Darwin |
| 11 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| 12 | A passage to India | E.M.Forster |
| 13 | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| 14 | Discovery of India | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 15 | The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith |
| 16 | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon |
| 17 | The Lady of the Last Minstrel | Sir Walter Scott |
| 18 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 19 | Time Machine | H.G. Wells |
| 20 | Arthashastra | Kautilya |
| 21 | Le Contract Social | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| 22 | Avigyan Sakuntalam | Kalidas |
| 23 | Anand Math | Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay |
| 24 | Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| 25 | Ain-i-Akbari | Abul Fazal |
| 26 | Akbar-Nama | Abul Fazal |
| 27 | Shakuntala | Kalidas |
| 28 | War and peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| 29 | A Dangerous place | D.P. Moynihan |
| 30 | Raghuvamsa | Kalidas |
| 31 | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 32 | Adventures of Tom Saweyer | Mark Twain |
| 33 | Agni Veena | Kazi Nasrul Islam |
| 34 | Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carrol |
| 35 | Ancient Mariner | Coleridge |
| 36 | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 37 | Anna Karenina | Tolstoy |
| 38 | Antony and Cleopatra | Shakespeare |
| 39 | Arms and the Man | G.B.Shaw |
| 40 | Around the World in eighty days | Jules Verne |
| 41 | Baburnama | Babur |
| 42 | Ben Hur | Lewis Wallace |
| 43 | Bhagwat Gita | Ved Vyas |
| 44 | Bisarjan | R.N.Tagore |
| 45 | Canterbury Tales | Chaucer |
| 46 | Chitra | R.N.Tagore |
| 47 | Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas |
| 48 | Crime and Punishment | Dostoevsky |
| 49 | Das Kapital | Karl Marx |
| 50 | Divine Comedy | Dante |
| 51 | Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde | Stevenson |
| 52 | Don Quixote | Cervantes |
| 53 | Dr.Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
| 54 | For whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| 55 | Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy |
| 56 | Freedom at Midnight | Dominique Lapierre |
| 57 | Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill |
| 58 | Geet Govind | Jaya Dev |
| 59 | Gora | R.N. Tagore |
| 60 | Hamlet | Shakespeare |
| 61 | Harsha Charit | Bana Bhatt |
| 62 | Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo |
| 63 | Hungry Stones | R.N.Tagore |
| 64 | Illiad | Homer |
| 65 | Invisible Man | H.G.Wells |
| 66 | Ivanhoe | Walter Scott |
| 67 | Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| 68 | Kadambari | Bana Bhatt |
| 69 | Kidnapped | R.L.Stevenson |
| 70 | King Lear | Shakespeare |
| 71 | Kumar Sambhav | Kalidas |
| 72 | Last Days of Pompeii | Bulwar Lytton |
| 73 | Les Miserable | Victor Hugo |
| 74 | Life Divine | Shri Aurobindo |
| 75 | Mahabharata | Vyas |
| 76 | Man and Superman | G.B.Shaw |
| 77 | Meghdut | Kalidas |
| 78 | Mother | Maxim Gorky |
| 79 | Odyssey | Homer |
| 80 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| 81 | Othello | Shakespeare |
| 82 | Panchatantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| 83 | Paradise lost | John Milton |
| 84 | Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| 85 | Plague | Albert Camus |
| 86 | The Post Office | R.N.Tagore |
| 87 | Principia | Issac Newton |
| 88 | Ramayana | Valmiki |
| 89 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| 90 | Shah Nama | Firdausi |
| 91 | Shape of things to come | H.G.Wells |
| 92 | Three Musketeers | Alexander Dumas |
| 93 | The Tempest | Shakespeare |
| 94 | Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| 95 | Treasure Island | R.L.Stevenson |
| 96 | Ulysses | James Joyce |
| 97 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Mrs.Harriet Stowe |
| 98 | Waste Land | T.S.Eliot |
| 99 | Nineteen Eighty-four | George Orwell |
| 100 | Sunny Days | Sunil Gavaskar |
| 101 | Faust | Goethe |
| 102 | Arabian Nights | Sir Richard Burton |
| 103 | The City of Joy | Dominique Lapierre |
| 104 | The One Day Wonders | Sunil Gavaskar |
| 105 | Silas Marner | George Eliot |
| 106 | Bachelor of Arts | R.K.Narayan |
| 107 | China Passage | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| 108 | A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| 109 | A Voice For Freedom | Nayantara Saigal |
| 110 | A Week with Gandhi | Louis Fisher |
| 111 | A Woman's Life | Guy de Maupassaut |
| 112 | Age of Reason | Jean Paul Sartre |
| 113 | Asian Drama | Gunnar Myrdal |
| 114 | The Bubble | Mulk Raj Anand |
| 115 | Ben Hur | Lewis Wallace |
| 116 | The Castle | Franz Kalka |
| 117 | Chandalika | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 118 | The Class | Erich Byron |
| 119 | The Clown | Heinrich Boll |
| 120 | Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare |
| 121 | Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx |
| 122 | Confessions | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| 123 | The Court Dancer | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 124 | Death of a City | Amrita Pritam |
| 125 | Decline and Fall of the Roman | Edward Gibbon Empire |
| 126 | Essays of Gita | Sir Aurobindo Ghosh |
| 127 | French Revolution | Thomas Carlyle |
| 128 | Ganadevata | Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya |
| 129 | Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 130 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo |
| 131 | Grammar of Politics | Harold T.Laski |
| 132 | Guide | R.K.Narayan |
| 133 | Hindu View of Life | Dr.S.Radha Krishnan |
| 134 | Hungry Stones | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 135 | India Divided | Dr.Rajendra Prasad |
| 136 | Jurassik Park | Michael Crichton |
| 137 | Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 138 | Richard Nixon | Leaders |
| 139 | Mahatma Gandhi | Romain Rolland |
| 140 | The Masters | C.P.Shaw |
| 141 | My Truth | Indira Gandhi |
| 142 | Old Man and the Sea | Earnest Hemingway |
| 143 | The Other Side of Midnight | Sindye Sheldon |
| 144 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 145 | Shape of Things to Come | H.G.Wells |
| 146 | Sons and Lovers | D.H.Lawrence |
| 147 | Treasure Island | R.L.Stevenson |
| 148 | Valley of Dolls | Jacqueline Susann |
| 149 | Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
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