Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Challenges of nation Building

Question:

Match the following personalities in List 1 with the description that suits them the most in List 2:

List 1 (Personalities) List 2 (Description)
(a) Amrita Pritam  (i) authored Zindan-Nama 
(b) Faiz Ahmed Faiz  (ii) also called Frontier Gandhi
(c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan  (iii) assassinated Gandhiji
(d) Nathuram Vinayak Godse (iv) wrote Nagmani

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

Options:

(a)- iv, (b)- i, (c)- iii, (d)- ii

(a)- iv, (b)- i, (c)- ii, (d)- iii

(a)- i, (b)- iv, (c)- ii, (d)- iii

(a)- ii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d)- iii

Correct Answer:

(a)- iv, (b)- i, (c)- ii, (d)- iii

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2 - (a)- iv, (b)- i, (c)- ii, (d)- iii

Correct Match:

List 1 (Personalities) List 2 (Description)
(a) Amrita Pritam (iv) wrote Nagmani
(b) Faiz Ahmed Faiz  (i) authored Zindan-Nama
(c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan  (ii) also called Frontier Gandhi
(d) Nathuram Vinayak Godse (iii) assassinated Gandhiji

Explanation:

Amrita Pritam was a prominent Punjabi poet and fiction writer. She actively wrote & edited ‘Nagmani’ a Punjabi monthly magazine

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born in Sialkot & stayed in Pakistan after partition. He was regarded as one of the greatest poets of South Asia in the twentieth century. Collections of his poetry include Naksh-e-Fariyadi, Dast-e-Saba (a masterpiece in Urdu literature), and Zindan-Nama.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, widely known as the 'Frontier Gandhi', strongly opposed the concept of a separate nation based on religious lines.

Nathuram Vinayak Godse assassinated Gandhiji on 30 January 1948.