This Books & Authors quiz on Books by Freedom Fighters and Leaders puts 12 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
12 questions with answers and explanations
Who wrote the autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth?
He wrote the book in Gujarati under the title Satya Na Prayogo, publishing it in parts in his journal, and Mahadev Desai translated it into English.
Read the full explanation →The book The Discovery of India was written by
He wrote The Discovery of India during his imprisonment at Ahmednagar Fort, and the book traces Indian history, thought and civilisation from the earliest times to the national movement of his own day.
Read the full explanation →Gita Rahasya was written by which leader?
He wrote Gita Rahasya during his imprisonment at Mandalay in Burma, reading the Bhagavad Gita as a call to selfless action rather than to withdrawal from the world, an interpretation that suited his own politics of active resistance.
Read the full explanation →The book India Wins Freedom was written by
India Wins Freedom is his account of the national movement and of the negotiations in the years around Independence, written from the position of a Congress president of that period.
Read the full explanation →Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, which set out the drain of wealth theory, was written by
In this book he argued that British rule was steadily transferring India's wealth to England through salaries, pensions, home charges and the profits of trade, an argument known as the drain of wealth theory.
Read the full explanation →The essay Why I am an Atheist was written by
He wrote the essay in Lahore jail in 1930, answering a fellow prisoner who had suggested that his disbelief came from vanity.
Read the full explanation →Annihilation of Caste was written by
He prepared the text in 1936 as the presidential address for a conference at Lahore, but the organisers withdrew the invitation over its contents, so the speech was never delivered and he published it himself.
Read the full explanation →The book The Indian Struggle was written by
The Indian Struggle is his own narrative and analysis of the Indian national movement, written during his years in Europe, and it reflects the impatience with gradual methods that later separated him from the Congress leadership.
Read the full explanation →Where did Mahatma Gandhi write Hind Swaraj?
Gandhi wrote the book in Gujarati on board the ship while returning from a deputation to London, casting it as a dialogue between an editor and a reader in which he explains what true self-rule means and criticises modern industrial civilisation.
Read the full explanation →Glimpses of World History is a collection of letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru to
Nehru wrote the letters from prison, telling her the story of the world from ancient times onwards, and they were later collected as Glimpses of World History.
Read the full explanation →The newspaper Kesari was started by
He ran Kesari in Marathi and Maratha in English, and it was through the writing in Kesari that he reached ordinary readers in Maharashtra, a reach that also brought him prosecutions for sedition.
Read the full explanation →The collection of poems The Golden Threshold was written by
The Golden Threshold was her first collection of poems, and it was followed by The Bird of Time and The Broken Wing.
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