Match List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Books | Authors | ||
| (A) | From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India | (I) | Anita Inder Singh |
| (B) | The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India | (II) | Gyanendra Pandey |
| (C) | The Partition of India | (III) | Sekhar Bandyopadhyay |
| (D) | Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India | (IV) | Urvashi Butalia |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
(A) From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India — this matches (III) Sekhar Bandyopadhyay. Bandyopadhyay’s book (2004) is a widely read survey of Indian history from 1757 to 1947, from the Battle of Plassey to Independence and Partition.
(B) The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India — this matches (IV) Urvashi Butalia. Butalia’s book (1998) is built on oral histories of Partition survivors, especially women and children.
(C) The Partition of India — this matches (I) Anita Inder Singh. Anita Inder Singh, a historian of the end of British rule, wrote this short account of how Partition came about.
(D) Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India — this matches (II) Gyanendra Pandey. Pandey’s book (2001) studies the violence of Partition and the memory of it in families and communities.