Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Understanding Partition

Question:

Match List I with List II.

 List - I 
Authors 
 List - II 
 Partition Literature 
 (A) Prakash Tandon   (I) 'Love is stronger than Hate: A remembrance of 1947' 
 (B) Urvashi Butalia   (II) 'Siyah Hashiye'
 (C) Khushdeva Singh   (III) 'The Other side of silence'
 (D) Saadat Hasan Manto    (IV) 'Punjabi Century'

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

(A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)

Correct Answer:

(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

Prakash Tandon in his 'Punjabi Century', an autobiographical social history of colonial Punjab shared the experience of a couple at the time of partition.

Urvashi Butalia in her book, The Other Side of Silence, narrates one such gruesome incident in the village of Thoa Khalsa, Rawalpindi district. During Partition, in this Sikh village, ninety women are said to have “voluntarily” jumped into a well rather than fall into “enemy” hands.

We know about the grueling relief work of Khushdeva Singh, a Sikh doctor specializing in the treatment of tuberculosis, from a memoir he entitled Love is Stronger than Hate: A Remembrance of 1947. Here, Singh describes his work as “humble efforts I made to discharge my duty as a human being to fellow human beings”. He speaks most warmly of two short visits to Karachi in 1949.

Saadat Hasan Manto is the writer of the book Siyah Hashiye (Black Margins).