Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists : List – I (Book): A. The Story of My Deportation, B. Gita Rahasya, C. A Nation in Making, D. India Wins Freedom List – II (Writer): 1. Surendranath Banerjee, 2. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, 3. Lala Lajpat Rai, 4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- (a)A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2
- (b)A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3
- (c)A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3
- (d)A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
Correct — A, A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2. 'The Story of My Deportation' was written by Lala Lajpat Rai (3), recounting his 1907 deportation to Mandalay in Burma; 'Gita Rahasya', the philosophical commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, was written by Bal Gangadhar Tilak (4) during his imprisonment at Mandalay; 'A Nation in Making' is the autobiography of the Moderate leader Surendranath Banerjee (1); and 'India Wins Freedom' is the memoir of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (2). Only option (a) pairs all four correctly.
- (b)A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3 — Wrong — it assigns 'The Story of My Deportation' to Tilak and 'Gita Rahasya' to Azad, but Gita Rahasya is Tilak's work and India Wins Freedom (not this) is Azad's; only C-1 (Banerjee) is right.
- (c)A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3 — Wrong — B-4 and C-1 are right, but it makes 'The Story of My Deportation' Azad's and 'India Wins Freedom' Lajpat Rai's; in fact the first is Lajpat Rai's and the second is Azad's.
- (d)A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1 — Wrong — every pair is mismatched here (A→Tilak, B→Lajpat Rai, C→Azad, D→Banerjee); none of these authors wrote the book they are paired with.
This is a book-to-author match on writings of the national movement. Each work is tied to a distinct leader: Lala Lajpat Rai's prison/deportation memoir, Tilak's Gita commentary, Surendranath Banerjee's Moderate-era autobiography, and Azad's post-Independence memoir. Knowing the signature book of each figure resolves the code.
All four writers are major freedom-movement figures, so the item rewards a memorised book↔author table rather than reasoning. The anchor pairs are the two 'Mandalay prison' works — Lajpat Rai's deportation account and Tilak's Gita Rahasya — which fix option (a) against the shuffled distractors.
- 'The Story of My Deportation' (1908) — Lala Lajpat Rai's account of his 1907 deportation to Mandalay
- 'Gita Rahasya' — Bal Gangadhar Tilak's commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, written in Mandalay jail
- 'A Nation in Making' — autobiography of Surendranath Banerjee, a leading Moderate ('Rashtraguru')
- 'India Wins Freedom' — memoir of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, first Education Minister of independent India
- Swapping 'The Story of My Deportation' (Lajpat Rai) with 'India Wins Freedom' (Azad)
- Confusing Gita Rahasya (Tilak) with other Gita commentaries
UPPSC/UPSC give Book↔Author match lists for freedom-movement figures — keep a memorised table of each leader's principal book.
Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists: List I — I. Surendranath Bannerjee, II. M. K. Gandhi, III. Subhash Chandra Bose, IV. Lajpat Rai. List II — A) Hind Swaraj, B) The Indian Struggle, C) Autobiographical Writings, D) A Nation in Making. Codes:
- (a) I – D, II – A, III – C, IV – B
- (b) I – A, II – D, III – C, IV – B
- (c) I – A, II – D, III – B, IV – C
- (d) I – D, II – A, III – B, IV – C
Answer(d) I-D, II-A, III-B, IV-C
Same concept and shared items — this UPSC match also pairs Surendranath Banerjee with 'A Nation in Making' and tests Lajpat Rai's writings, exactly the book↔author skill this 2020 question rewards.
- practice — not a real PYQ
'Gita Rahasya', a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, was written during imprisonment in Mandalay by
- (a)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- (b)Mahatma Gandhi
- (c)Aurobindo Ghosh
- (d)Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak — he wrote Gita Rahasya while jailed at Mandalay (1908-14).
- practice — not a real PYQ
The autobiographical work 'India Wins Freedom' was written by
- (a)Surendranath Banerjee
- (b)Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- (c)Jawaharlal Nehru
- (d)Rajendra Prasad
Answer(b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad — his memoir of the freedom struggle and Partition.