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Books & Authors questions test recognition of canonical Indian and world books. Group your prep: classical Sanskrit/Hindi works, modern English-Indian authors, autobiographies of leaders, and recent Booker/Nobel-winning titles.
| Book | Author |
|---|---|
| Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| My Experiments with Truth | M.K. Gandhi |
| The Story of My Life | M.K. Gandhi (different vol.) |
| Wings of Fire | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (with Arun Tiwari) |
| India Wins Freedom | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| Geet Govinda | Jayadeva |
| Arthashastra | Kautilya (Chanakya) |
| Raghuvansham / Meghdoot | Kalidasa |
| Gitanjali | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Panchatantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| Train to Pakistan | Khushwant Singh |
| Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga |
| The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai |
| Indian Summer | Alex von Tunzelmann |
| Pather Panchali | Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay |
| Book | Author |
|---|---|
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Hamlet / Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 1984 / Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| Das Kapital | Karl Marx |
| Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
5 random questions from our bank. Refresh or retake for a new set.
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, while imprisoned at Ahmednagar Fort during 1942–46.
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (co-written with Arun Tiwari).
Kautilya, also known as Chanakya or Vishnugupta.
Arundhati Roy — Booker Prize winner, 1997.
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