Books and Authors Quiz

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The Ain-i-Akbari is a 16th-century detailed document recording the administration of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar, written by his court historian, Abul Fazl in the Persian language.

“Vaishnava Jana To...” is a Hindu bhajan, written in the 15th century by the poet Narsinh Mehta in the Gujarati language.

Devdas (1917) is a Bengali-language romance novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay written when he was only seventeen years of age.

The author of “Conquest of Happiness” is Bertrand Russell. This book was first published by Liveright Publishing Corporation in 1930. Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy.

Kiratarjuniya is a Sanskrit epic poem by Bharavi. Amuktamalyada is a Telugu epic poem composed by Krishnadevaraya, the Vijayanagara Emperor in the early 16th century. Nagananda is a Sanskrit play attributed to emperor Harshavardhana. Ritusamhara is a long poem or mini-epic in Sanskrit attributed to Kalidasa.

Tonight, this Savage Rite is the Love Poems of Kamala Das and Pritish Nandy.

The Sirr-i-Akbar is a version of the Upanishads authored by the Mughal-Shahzada, Dara Shukoh, translated from Sanskrit into Persian in 1657.

Kadambari is a romantic novel in Sanskrit. It was substantially composed by Banabhatta in the first half of the 7th century CE, who did not survive to see it through completion. The novel was completed by Banabhatta's son Bhushanabhatta, according to the plan laid out by his late father.

Gandhi was inspired by Tolstoy not only in respect of non-violence but also by his idea of 'Bread Labour' and its concomitant idea of 'getting off the backs' of others including the poor. He developed Tolstoy's theory of 'Bread Labour' into a full-fledged theory of the duty and right to work.