The Gujarati novel Manvini Bhavai, which won the Jnanpith Award, was written by
- A.Pannalal Patel
- B.Rajendra Shah
- C.Raghuveer Chaudhari
- D.Kanhaiyalal Munshi
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Pannalal Patel. Manvini Bhavai is his novel of rural Gujarat during a devastating famine, written from the inside of peasant life, and it is the work for which he received the Jnanpith Award. Option B, Rajendra Shah, is wrong for this title although he too is a Gujarati Jnanpith laureate, honoured as a poet for the collection Dhvani. Option C, Raghuveer Chaudhari, is wrong in the same way: he is a later Gujarati Jnanpith laureate, a novelist and critic, but not the author of this book. Option D, Kanhaiyalal Munshi, is wrong; he wrote the historical novels Patan ni Prabhuta, Gujarat no Nath and Rajadhiraj and founded the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, and he is not a Jnanpith laureate. The clean way to hold these apart is to remember Pannalal Patel as the novelist of famine, Rajendra Shah as the poet and Munshi as the historical novelist.
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