Match the following books/texts with their respective authors Choose the correct match:

Question

Match the following books/texts with their respective authors

Choose the correct match:

1. A. i-a, ii-b, iii-d, iv-c
2. B. i-a, ii-b, iii-c, iv-d
3. C. i-b, ii-a, iii-d, iv-c (Correct answer)
4. D. i-b, ii-a, iii-c, iv-d

Correct Answer

Option C — i-b, ii-a, iii-d, iv-c

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is i-b, ii-a, iii-d, iv-c.

Key Points

• The correct matching is:

• Dadabhai Naoroji founded the journal *Voice of India* and is best known for *Poverty and Un-British Rule in India*, which set out the Drain Theory.
• Romesh Chunder Dutt wrote *The Economic History of India*, a systematic account of the impoverishment of India under colonial rule.
• Lala Lajpat Rai wrote *Unhappy India* (1928) as a rebuttal to Katherine Mayo's *Mother India*.
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad wrote *India Divided* (1946), analysing the demand for partition.

Additional Information

• Other important works of the national movement:
  • *Poverty and Un-British Rule in India* — Dadabhai Naoroji
  • *Gita Rahasya* — Bal Gangadhar Tilak, written in Mandalay prison
  • *Hind Swaraj* — Mahatma Gandhi
  • *Discovery of India*, *Glimpses of World History*, *An Autobiography* — Jawaharlal Nehru
  • *Anandamath* (source of *Vande Mataram*) — Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
  • *Gitanjali* — Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913
  • *Indian War of Independence, 1857* — V.D. Savarkar
• Dadabhai Naoroji, the "Grand Old Man of India", was the first Indian to be elected to the British House of Commons (1892) and presided over the Indian National Congress three times.
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first President of India and chaired the Constituent Assembly.