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HCS (Haryana)Prelims2023General Studies
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Match List - I with List - II : List - I A. S. Khilnani B. Rajni Kothari C. R. Guha D. Atul Kohli List - II 1. The idea of India 2. Democracy and Discontent 3. India After Gandhi 4. State against Democracy Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
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- A A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
- B A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
- C A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4
- D A-1, B-4, C-3, D-2
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D A-1, B-4, C-3, D-2
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State Against Democracy: In Search of Humane Governance
- It is a memoir by American actress Rajni Kothari that was first published in 1988.
- The book is about a family with American dreams, especially relevant to contemporary India.
The Idea of India
- It is a non-fiction book written by Sunil Khilnani and published in 1997.
- The book is a historical study that describes India's political and economic history over the last 50 years since Partition.
- Khilnani, a politics professor and the director of the King's College London India Institute, defines "Indian-ness" in the book.
Democracy and Discontent
- India's Growing Crisis of Governability is a book written by Atul Kohli and first published in 1990.
- The book analyzes political change in India from the late 1960s to the late 1980s.
- It uses local, state, and national research to examine the changing patterns of authority in and between the centre and periphery.
India After Gandhi
- The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha.
- It was first published in 2007 by HarperCollins.
- The book covers the history of India after it gained independence from the British in 1947.