‘Neel Darpan’ is a play based on the story of Indigo Rebellion of Bengal of 1860 – 61. Who authored it?

A. Dinabandhu Mitra
B. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
C. Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh jointly
D. Madhusudan Dutta
✅ The correct answer is option A.
‘Neel Darpan’ or ‘The Indigo Planting Mirror’ was a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra.

‘The Discovery of India’ was written in Ahmednagar Fort during imprisonment. Who wrote ‘The Discovery of India’?

A. Swami Vivekanand
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Subhash Chandra Bose
D. Jawaharlal Nehru
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the book ‘The Discovery of India’, during his imprisonment at Ahmednagar fort for participating in the Quit India Movement.

Who wrote the book ‘Reminiscences of the Nehru Age’?

A. C. D. Deshmukh
B. Dr. P. C. Alexander
C. M. O. Mathai
D. S. C. Rajagopalachari
✅ The correct answer is option C.
M. O. Mathai (Mundapallil Oommen Mathai) was the Private Secretary to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. He is primarily famed for his controversial memoirs in ‘Reminiscences of the Nehru Age’ (1978) and ‘My Days with Nehru’ (1979).