Question

Who wrote the book 'Discovery of India'?
1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Pandit Nehru
3. K.P.Bose
4. Sardar Patel

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Pandit Nehru

The Correct Answer is Pandit Nehru.

• Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister,  wrote The Discovery of India while imprisoned by colonial authorities at Ahmednagar fort in the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra from 1942 to 1945, prior to India's independence.
• While the book was written in 1944, it was published in 1946. Some of the book's material is credited to Nehru's fellow inmates at the Ahmednagar jail.
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Govind Ballabh Pant, Narendra Deva, and Asaf Ali are among those he mentions specifically.
• Bharat Ek Khoj (1988), a 53-episode Indian television series directed by Shyam Benegal and first broadcast in 1988 on the state-run Doordarshan channel, was based on the novel.

 

• Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian independence leader and, later, the country's first Prime Minister, as well as a key figure in Indian politics both before and after independence.
• He rose to prominence as an eminent leader of the Indian independence movement, serving as Prime Minister of India from its independence in 1947 until his death in 1964.
• The Congress became a catch-all party under Nehru's leadership, dominating national and state politics and winning three consecutive elections in 1951, 1957, and 1962.
• Despite political difficulties in his later years and a leadership failure during the 1962 Sino-Indian War, he remained popular with the Indian people.
• Children's Day is observed on his birthday in India. 
• 'Indica' is the reputed book of Megasthenes.
• The famous book titled 'Hind Swaraj' written by M. K. Gandhiji 
• Malgudi Days published in 1943 is a of short story collection by RK Narayan.