Indian Non-Fiction Previous Year Questions

Who is the author of the truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story?

[1] A. Revathi

[2] Bama

[3] Mukta Sarvagod

[4] V. Geetha

Answer: 1

Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia’s, The Other side of Silence primarily seek to do?

(a) To understand the Partition as something more than a political divide

(b) To foreground a personal history of the partition

(c) To foreground the partition as an event more tragic that the Holocaust

(d) To find and unite families separated at the partition

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Match List-I with List-II:

List-I

(a) The Lie of the Land

(b) Masks of Conquest

(c) Rethinking English

(d) This Gift of English

List-II

I. Alok Mukherjee

II. Rajeswari Sunder Ranjan

III. Gauri Viswanathan

IV. Swathi Joshi

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-I

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-I; (c)-II; (d)-III

Answer: 2

Who is the author of The Otherness of English:

India’s Aunty Tongue Syndrome?

[1] Binoo K. John

[2] Yamuna Kachru

[3] Prabal Dasgupta

[4] S.K. Verma

Answer: 3

Which of the following texts coins the slogan “Vande Matram”?

[1] Anandmath

[2] Mrinalini

[3] Durgeshnandini

[4] Kapalkundala

Answer: [1] Anandmath

Who first translated the Bhagavad Gita into English?

[1] H T Colebrook

[2] Alexander duff

[3] Charles Wilkins

[4] Sir William jones

Answer: [3] Charles Wilkins

Given below are two statements:

Statement I: In my remembered village (1976). M.N. Srinivas highlights the ethnographical details of a village, Rampura, near Mysore

Statement II: It also emphasizes on the importance of economic freedom of the masses required for their overall upliftment.

In light of the above statements.Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

[1] Both statement I and statement II are correct

[2] Both statement I and Statement II are incorrect

[3] Statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect

[4] Statement I is incorrect, but statement II is correct

Answer: [3] Statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect

Brij V, Lal’s Rama ‘s banishment deals with the history of Fiji of a time period of ________.

[1] 50 Years

[2] 100 Years

[3] 150 Years

[4] 200 Years

Answer: [3] 150 Years

Match List I with List II:

List I

[A] Salim Ali

[B] Jim Corbett

[C] Kailash Sankhala

[D] M. Krishnan

List II

[I] Wild beauty

[II] The fall of a sparrow

[III] Night and days: my book of Indian wildlife

[IV] My India

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

[2] (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

[3] (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)

[4] (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

Answer: [1] (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

Given below are two statements. One is labeled as Assertion A and the other is labeled as Reason R.

Assertion (A): The experience of homosexuality in a homophobic culture is not the same for the whites and blacks.

Reason (R): Sexuality and sexual identity is experienced differently by the whites and blacks.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the option given below:

1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

2) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

3) (A) is correct but (R) is not correct.

4) (A) is not correct but (R) is correct.

Answer: 1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Which of these do M K Naik and Shyamala Narayan claim about Indian English Drama in Indian English Literature: 1980-2000: A Critical Survey?

1) It is a dynamic genre

2) It is the sick man of Indian English literature

3) It is deeply rooted in the Indian folk tradition

4) It is essentially a diasporic phenomenon

Answer:2) It is the sick man of Indian English literature

Who was the writer of A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature?

1) M K Naik

2) Shyamala Narayan

3) EF Oaten

4) KR Srinivasa Iyengar

Answer:3) EF Oaten

Which among the following is not written by a sportsperson?

(1) Open: An Autobiography

(2) Unbreakable: An Autobiography

(3) Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

(4) A Country Called Childhood: A Memoir

Answer: (4) A Country Called Childhood: A Memoir