Question

Match List - I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists :

List – I	List – II
A. Lady Catherine Mayo	1. freedom at Midnight
B. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre	2. Mother India
C. Ram Manohar Lohia	3. Discovery of India
D. Jawaharlal Nehru	4. Guilty Men of India’s Partition

1. A - 2, B - 1, C - 4, D - 3
2. A - 1, B - 2, C - 3, D - 4
3. A - 1, B - 2, C - 4, D - 3
4. A - 4, B - 3, C - 2, D - 1

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : A - 2, B - 1, C - 4, D - 3

The correct answer is A - 2, B - 1, C - 4, D - 3.

List – I	List – II
A. Lady Catherine Mayo	Mother India
B. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre	freedom at Midnight
C. Ram Manohar Lohia	Guilty Men of India’s Partition
D. Jawaharlal Nehru	Discovery of India

• Lady Catherine Mayo:
  • Mother India (1927) is a polemical book by American historian Katherine Mayo which attacks Indian society, religion, and culture.
  • Written in opposition to the movement for Indian independence, the book criticized India's treatment of women, the untouchables, animals, the countryside, and the character of its nationalistic politicians.
  • A large part of the book dealt with the problems resulting from the marriage of young girls.
  • This was considered to be one of the main causes that led to an uproar across India after many Indian newspapers declared the book "scurrilous libel" against Hindus and Hinduism.
• Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre:
  • The enormous success of the international writing partnership of Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre was based on the phenomenal bestsellers Is Paris Burning?, Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, O Jerusalem!, Freedom at Midnight, and The Fifth Horseman.
  • The last-named work was their first novel.
  • Collins and Lapierre were a unique team that each wrote in his own language.
  • Their works were then published simultaneously in French and English before being translated into sixteen other languages.
  • Their work was distinguished by immense attention to detail and thorough research.
  • Since the publication of their last joint work The Fifth Horseman, Collins has published three bestselling novels, Fall From Grace, Maze, and Black Eagles, while Lapierre published two non-fiction bestsellers, The City of Joy and Beyond Love.
• Ram Manohar Lohia:
  • Ram Manohar Lohia was one of the founders of the Congress Socialist Party and editor of its mouthpiece Congress Socialist.
  • In 1936, he was selected by Jawaharlal Nehru as the secretary of the Foreign Department of the All India Congress Committee (A.I.C.C), the highest body of the Congress Party.
  • He became a member of the Praja Socialist Party upon its formation in 1952 and served as general secretary for a brief period, but conflicts within the party led to his resignation in 1955.
  • In June 1940, he was arrested and sentenced to a jail term of two years for delivering anti-war speeches.
  • He opposed the Indian participation on the side of Great Britain in World War II and was arrested for anti-British remarks in 1939 and 1940.
  • Lohia along with other CSP leaders mobilized support for the Quit India movement (a campaign initiated by Mohandas K. Gandhi to urge the withdrawal of British authorities from India) in 1942.
  • He was jailed again in 1944-46 for such resistance activities.
  • He got captured in May 1944 and was incarcerated and tortured in Lahore Fort.
  • As one of the last high-security prisoners, Lohia, together with Jayaprakash Narayan, was finally released on 11 April 1946.
• Jawaharlal Nehru:
  • Jawaharlal Nehru was the first prime minister of independent India (1947–64), who established parliamentary government and became noted for his neutralist (nonaligned) policies in foreign affairs.
  • He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the 1930s and ’40s.
  • Nehru’s autobiography discloses his lively interest in Indian politics during the time he was studying abroad.
  • His letters to his father over the same period reveal their common interest in India’s freedom.
  • Nehru’s ideals envisioned in ‘Objective Resolution’, steered the Constituent Assembly to draw up a working constitution.
  • It gave a tremendous leg up to the country’s historically discriminated sections like Dalits and religious minorities.
  • The quality in Gandhi that impressed the two Nehrus was his insistence on the action.