SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 10 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 7 of 100

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Who among the following freedom fighters of India is the author of the book, ‘The Indian Struggle’?

(a)Vallabhbhai Patel
(b)Motilal Nehru
(c)Mahatma Gandhi
(d)Subhas Chandra Bose

Answer

Why

Correct — D. 'The Indian Struggle' is Subhas Chandra Bose's own history of the nationalist movement, written during his years in Europe and first published in London in 1935, covering 1920 to 1934.

A second part, carrying the account to 1942, was added in the combined edition brought out later. The British government banned the book in India, which tells you what kind of book it is: a participant's political argument, not a memoir. That is option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Vallabhbhai Patel — Vallabhbhai Patel left no book of this kind. He is remembered for the Bardoli satyagraha of 1928 and for the integration of the princely states, and what survives in print is his speeches and correspondence.
(b)
Motilal Nehru — Motilal Nehru is attached to a document rather than a book: the Nehru Report of 1928, the Indian-drafted constitutional scheme prepared after the Simon Commission was boycotted.
(c)
Mahatma Gandhi — Gandhi wrote 'Hind Swaraj' in 1909 and the autobiography 'The Story of My Experiments with Truth'. Both are his, and neither carries this title.

Concept

Books-and-authors of the freedom struggle is pure recall, and the way to keep it is by asking what each leader's writing was for.

Bose wrote 'The Indian Struggle' abroad, in the 1930s, for a European readership. Its purpose was to present the Indian movement as a serious political force and to put his own wing of it on the record. That is why it appeared in London and was banned at home.

The other Bose facts SSC draws on sit around the book: the Forward Bloc, founded in 1939 after he resigned the Congress presidency, and the Indian National Army, which he took command of in 1943.

Key facts

'The Indian Struggle' was written by Subhas Chandra Bose and first published in London in 1935, covering 1920 to 1934.
The British government banned the book in India.
Bose founded the Forward Bloc in 1939 and took over the leadership of the Indian National Army in 1943.
Jawaharlal Nehru's 'The Discovery of India' (1946) is the other freedom-struggle title of the period students confuse with it.

Study next

Books by freedom fighters: 'Hind Swaraj', 'The Discovery of India', 'Unhappy India', 'Why I am an Atheist'Subhas Chandra Bose: Forward Bloc, the escape from Calcutta, the Azad Hind government, the INAThe Nehru Report of 1928 and the constitutional proposals of the 1920s

Common traps

Choosing Gandhi because he is the most-published name on the list.
Confusing this title with Nehru's 'The Discovery of India', written in prison in the 1940s.

Author-and-title is a regular SSC slot, and this shift uses it again at General Awareness Q.2, which asks who wrote 'Stree Purush Tulana'.

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