Match List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (Books) | (Authors) | ||
| (A) | The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World | (I) | Han Kang |
| (B) | Man-eaters of Kumaon | (II) | William Dalrymple |
| (C) | Mother | (III) | Maxim Gorky |
| (D) | The Vegetarian | (IV) | Jim Corbett |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
Each book in List-I is matched with its author.
(A) The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World — this matches (II) William Dalrymple. The historian’s 2024 book traces how Indian ideas, Buddhism and trade spread across Asia and beyond.
(B) Man-eaters of Kumaon — this matches (IV) Jim Corbett. Corbett, the hunter-turned-conservationist after whom Corbett National Park is named, wrote this account of tracking man-eating tigers in 1944.
(C) Mother — this matches (III) Maxim Gorky. The Russian writer’s 1906 novel follows a factory worker’s mother who joins the revolutionary movement.
(D) The Vegetarian — this matches (I) Han Kang. The South Korean novelist won the International Booker Prize for it in 2016 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024.