A) The Himalayan Arc: Journeys East of South-east B) Journeys Across South-east Asia C) The Bend of the Himalayas D) Himalayan Tales and Geopolitics
A) Abdus Salam B) Namita Gokhale C) Vivek Mukherji D) Prannay Pathak
A) The western rim of the Tibetan plateau B) The central plains of South Asia C) The northern frontiers of the British Empire D) The bend of the Himalayas, the East of South-east
A) Myanmar B) Sri Lanka C) Afghanistan D) Pakistan
A) Tibet B) China C) Bhutan D) Bangladesh
A) More than thirty B) Nearly one hundred C) Fewer than ten D) Exactly twenty
A) Uniform linguistic assimilation B) Economic isolation and self-sufficiency C) A sense of shared existence and cultural connectivity D) Strict political divisions and rivalries
A) Photos B) Sketches C) Maps D) Paintings
A) Novels and plays B) Fables and folk stories C) Autobiographies D) Satirical essays
A) Industrial manufacturing B) Strategy and diplomacy C) Marine navigation D) Desert agriculture
A) Urban planning B) Espionage and the deep state C) Taxation and fiscal policy D) Space exploration
A) John Elliott B) Salil Tripathi C) Pushpesh Pant D) David Malone
A) David Malone B) John Elliott C) Manoj Joshi D) Sudhindra Sharma
A) Chetan Raj Shrestha B) Aruni Kashyap C) Manoj Joshi D) Indra Bahadur Rai
A) Vivek Mukherji B) Abdus Salam C) Prannay Pathak D) Omair Ahmad
A) Indian historian B) British filmmaker C) Bangladeshi journalist D) Nepali novelist
A) Bhutan B) Myanmar C) North-east India D) Nepal
A) Architectural photographs B) Modern war photographs C) Colonial-era photographs D) Wildlife photographs
A) It ignores the region of Nepal entirely B) It focuses too heavily on political borders C) It lacks any visual illustrations D) There is an absence of an overarching theme other than geography
A) Discrete and unconnected vignettes B) A cohesive historical narrative C) A single continuous novel D) A political manifesto
A) Vivek Mukherji B) Omair Ahmad C) Abdus Salam D) Prannay Pathak
A) A geopolitical light B) A purely religious light C) A purely economic light D) A romantic and nostalgic light
A) As an uninhabitable wasteland B) As having a curiously singular identity which ceases to exist beyond political borders C) As an extension of the European continent D) As a collection of completely isolated warring tribes
A) They are strictly confined by national borders B) They remain entirely unchanged over centuries C) They are isolated to the country of Myanmar D) They transcend any sort of boundaries
A) Stagnant B) Uniform C) Rigid D) Fluid
A) Hindustan Times B) Outlook Traveller C) The Hindu D) The News Lens
A) Industrial manufacturing hubs B) A single centralized government C) Identical cultural practices D) Vastly different subcultures
A) The cultural isolation of mountain tribes B) The interconnectedness of its many warm communities C) The dominance of colonial administrative systems D) The permanent division caused by political borders
A) Outlook Traveller B) The Hindu C) The News Lens D) Hindustan Times
A) They have been preserved perfectly by modern governments B) They have largely been forgotten in favor of lines drawn on the map C) They were never recorded in any written form D) They are exclusively taught in colonial schools
A) United Nations peacekeepers B) Ancient Chinese dynasties C) The British Empire and its successors D) Local Himalayan monarchs
A) They must be replaced by modern political maps B) They have to be understood C) They must be ignored D) They should be rewritten by colonial historians
A) The complex political geography B) The oceanic climate patterns C) The geological formation D) The agricultural trade routes
A) Rabindranath Tagore B) Vikram Seth C) Janice Pariat D) Rudyard Kipling
A) No B) Yes C) Only as the publisher D) Only as a reviewer
A) Arundhati Roy B) Jhumpa Lahiri C) Ma Thida D) Kiran Desai
A) Amitav Ghosh B) Indra Bahadur Rai C) Salman Rushdie D) William Dalrymple
A) Chetan Raj Shrestha B) Chetan Bhagat C) Shashi Tharoor D) Aravind Adiga
A) Dalai Lama B) Narendra Modi C) Manmohan Singh D) Sujeev Shakya
A) Subhash Chandra Bose B) Amish Raj Mulmi C) Jawaharlal Nehru D) Mahatma Gandhi
A) Kamala Das B) Nayantara Sahgal C) Sushma Joshi D) Anita Desai
A) Ramachandra Guha B) Jhumpa Lahiri C) Sudhindra Sharma D) Amartya Sen
A) Tsering Tashi B) Thupten Tashi C) Tashi Tsering D) Tenzin Tashi
A) A. K. Ramanujan B) A. A. Milne C) Abhay K. D) T. S. Eliot
A) R. K. Narayan B) Mulk Raj Anand C) Binodini D) Ruskin Bond
A) Jacqueline Susann B) Jacqueline Zote C) Jacqueline Kennedy D) Jacqueline de Burne
A) Mamoni Raisom Goswami B) Bhabendra Nath Saikia C) Homen Borgohain D) Aruni Kashyap
A) Nadine Gordimer B) Nitoo Das C) Nayantara Sahgal D) Nellie Bly
A) Khaleda Zia B) Lutfa Hanum Selima Begum C) Begum Rokeya D) Benazir Bhutto
A) Birendranath Bhattacharya B) Hem Barua C) Robin Ngangom D) Tilak Hazarika
A) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay B) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay C) Michael Madhusudan Dutt D) Indira Goswami
A) Tulsi Badrinath B) Devdutt Pattanaik C) Girish Karnad D) Vijay Tendulkar
A) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni B) Kavita Daswani C) Anuja Chauhan D) Mamang Dai
A) Desmond Kharmawphlang B) Abdus Salam C) Namita Gokhale D) Prannay Pathak |