Reader’s Digest India – August 2019

1. Mahatma Gandhi read
   this book by a 19th-cen-
   tury British critic when he
   was in South Africa, and
   decided to change his life
   “in accordance with the
   ideals of the book”. He
   later translated it into
   Gujarati and gave it the
   title Sarvodaya. Name the
   book and the author.


2. How did Rabindranath
   Tagore express his anger
   and register his protest
   after the Jallianwala Bagh
   massacre in 1919?


3. Name the book by his-
   torian Katherine Mayo
   that Mahatma Gandhi
   called a “drain inspector’s
   report” for its negative
   depiction of India.


4. K. L. Gauba wrote this
   book as a counter to Kath-
   erine Mayo’s. He even sent
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it to Mayo with a note, “To

one drain inspector from

another.” It was reportedly

a bestseller in the 1920s.

Name the book.

5. In which year was the
   tricolour, comprising saf-
   fron, white and green,
   adopted as the national
   flag of India by the Indian
   National Congress?


6. After the failure of the
   Cripps Mission, Mahatma
   Gandhi decided to launch
   which movement against

the British rule in 1942?

7. In 1940, the Muslim
   League, led by Moha-
   mmed Ali Jinnah, in a
   resolution passed in this
   city, demanded that
   India be separated into
   two states: one for Hindus
   and one for Muslims.
   Name the city.


8. In 1943, this Indian
   freedom fighter was trans-
   ferred from a German sub-
   marine into a Japanese
   submarine near the island
   of Madagascar?


9. Lord Mountbatten, the
   last British Viceroy of India
   chose 15 August as Inde-
   pendence Day for India, as
   it was on this day in 1945
   that the Japanese forces
   had surrendered, putting
   an end to World War II.
   Which book was this
   revealed in?


10. Which British lawyer
    was given five weeks to
    divide India into the new
    independent nations of
    India and Pakistan?

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