Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Understanding Partition

Question:

Match List I with List II.

 List I   List II
 A. Saadat Hasan Manto   I. English 
 B. Bapsi Sidhwa  II. Hindi 
 C. Narain Bharati   III. Sindhi 
 D. Bhisham Sahni  IV. Urdu 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

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

A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II

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

A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I

Correct Answer:

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

Explanation:

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

Correct Match:

 List I   List II
 A. Saadat Hasan Manto  IV. Urdu
 B. Bapsi Sidhwa I. English 
 C. Narain Bharati  III. Sindhi
 D. Bhisham Sahni II. Hindi

Explanation:

Partition literature and films exist in many languages, notably in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Bengali, Assamese and English. You may want to read writers such as Manto, Rajinder Singh Bedi (Urdu), Intizar Husain (Urdu), Bhisham Sahni (Hindi), Kamaleshwar (Hindi), Rahi Masoom Raza (Hindi), Narain Bharati (Sindhi), Sant Singh Sikhon (Punjabi), Narendranath Mitra (Bengali), Syed Waliullah (Bengali), Lalithambika Antharjanam (Malayalam), Amitav Ghosh (English) and Bapsi Sidhwa (English). Amrita Pritam, Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Dinesh Das have written memorable poems on Partition in Punjabi, Urdu and Bengali respectively. You may also want to see films directed by Ritwik Ghatak (Meghe Dhaka Tara and Subarnarekha), M.S. Sathyu (Garam Hawa), Govind Nihalani (Tamas ), and a play, Jis Lahore Nahin Vekhya O Jamya-e-nai (He Who Has Not Seen Lahore, Has Not Been Born) directed by Habib Tanvir.