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Tuesday, 16 June

SSC / Banking · Books, Authors & Awards

Which is India's highest gallantry award for valour shown during peacetime?

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5 more SSC / Banking questions from the same chapter, with step-by-step solutions. Try each one, then reveal the answer.

  1. Q1easy

    'The Discovery of India' was written by which leader?

    • AMahatma Gandhi
    • BJawaharlal Nehru
    • CB. R. Ambedkar
    • DSardar Vallabhbhai Patel
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    Correct answer: (B) Jawaharlal Nehru

    'The Discovery of India' was written by Jawaharlal Nehru while he was imprisoned at Ahmednagar Fort.

  2. Q2easy

    The book 'Wings of Fire' is the autobiography of:

    • AA. P. J. Abdul Kalam
    • BVikram Sarabhai
    • CHomi Bhabha
    • DC. V. Raman
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    Correct answer: (A) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

    'Wings of Fire' is the autobiography of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, co-written with Arun Tiwari.

  3. Q3medium

    Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for which work?

    • AGora
    • BChokher Bali
    • CThe Home and the World
    • DGitanjali
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    Correct answer: (D) Gitanjali

    Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for 'Gitanjali', becoming the first Asian Nobel laureate.

  4. Q4easy

    'The Story of My Experiments with Truth' is the autobiography of:

    • AJawaharlal Nehru
    • BMahatma Gandhi
    • CSubhas Chandra Bose
    • DLala Lajpat Rai
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    Correct answer: (B) Mahatma Gandhi

    This autobiography was written by Mahatma Gandhi, originally in Gujarati.

  5. Q5medium

    The ancient treatise 'Arthashastra' on statecraft and economics was written by:

    • AKalidasa
    • BPanini
    • CChanakya (Kautilya)
    • DVishnu Sharma
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    Correct answer: (C) Chanakya (Kautilya)

    The 'Arthashastra' was written by Chanakya (also known as Kautilya or Vishnugupta), the minister of Chandragupta Maurya.