Sunday, January 23, 2011

Computer Knowledge Questions


1. If a word is typed that is not in Word’s dictionary, a ___ wavy underline appears below the word.
(A) red
(B) green
(C) blue
(D) black
(E) None of these
Ans (A)
2. The _____ button on the quick access Toolbar allows you to cancel your recent commands or actions.
(A) Search
(B) Cut
(C) Document
(D) Undo
(E) None of these
Ans (D)
3. In Excel, any set of characters containing a letter , hyphen, or space is considered ___
(A) a formula
(B) text
(C) a name
(D) a title
(E) None of these
Ans (B)
4. ________ Software allows users to perform calculations on rows and columns of data.
(A) Word processing
(B) Presentation graphics
(C) Database Management Systems
(D) Electronic Spreadsheet
(E) None of these
Ans (C)
5. A _________ represent approximately one billion memory locations.
(A) kilobyte
(B) megabyte
(C) gigabyte
(D) terabyte
(E) None of these
Ans (C)
6. ______ cells involves creating a single cell by combining two or more selected cells.
(A) Formatting
(B) Merging
(C) Embedding
(D) Splitting
(E) None of these
Ans (B)
7. The operating system is the most common type of ______________ software.
(A) communication
(B) application
(C) system
(D) word-processing
(E) None of these
Ans (C)
8. When you quickly press and releaes the left mouse button twice , you are ____
(A) Primary-clicking
(B) pointing
(C) Double-clicking
(D) Secondary-clicking
(E) None of these
Ans (C)
9. The horizontal and vertical lines on a worksheet are called ___
(A) cells
(B) sheets
(C) block lines
(D) gridlines
(E) None of these
Ans (D)
10. To delete an incorrect character in a document, __________ to erase to the right of the insertion point.
(A) press the left mouse key
(B) double-click the right mouse key
(C) press the BACKSPACE key
(D) press the delete key
(E) None of these
Ans (D)
11. The operating system does all of the following EXCEPT:
A provide a way for the user to interact with the computer.
B manage the central processing unit (CPU).
C manage memory and storage.
D enable users to perform a specific task such as document editing.
Ans (D)
12. During the boot process, the ____________ looks for the system files.
A CD
B. BIOS
C. CPU
D. DVD
AnS (B)
13. ____________ are lists of commands that appear on the screen.
A GUIs
B Icons
C Menus
D Windows
Answer: C
14. ____________ is the ability of an operating system to control the activities of multiple programs at the same time.
A Multitasking
B Streamlining
C Multiuser
D Simulcasting
Answer: A
15. The unique signal, generated by a device, that tells the operating system that it is in need of immediate attention is called an:
A action.
B event.
C interrupt.
D activity.
Answer: C
16. The operating system controls access to the processor by assigning a(n) ____________ to each task requiring the processor’s attention.
A CPU
B slice of time
C stack
D event
Answer: B
17. The blocks of code, included in the operating system, that software applications interact with are known as:
A application programming interfaces (APIs).
B complimentary metal-oxide conductors (CMOS).
C device drivers.
D bootstrap loaders.
Answer: A
18. MS-DOS is a ____________ operating system.
A point-and-click
B user-friendly
C command-driven
D Mac
Answer: C
19. An interrupt handler is a(n):
A location in memory that keeps track of recently generated interrupts.
B peripheral device.
C utility program.
D special numeric code that indicates the priority of a request.
Answer: D
20. A spooler is a(n):
A location in memory that maintains the contents of a document until it prints out.
B print job.
C program that coordinates the print jobs that are waiting to print.
D message sent from the printer to the operating system when a print job is completed.
Answer: C
21. Virtual memory is typically located:
A on a floppy disk.
B in the CPU.
C in a flash card.
D on the hard drive.
Answer: D
22. The purpose of a swap (or page) file is to:
A maintain pages of documents that are being spooled to the printer.
B hold a program’s data or instructions in virtual memory when it can’t fit in RAM.
C prevent thrashing in a multitasking environment.
D allow multiple print jobs to print their pages out simultaneously.
Answer: B
23. The definition of thrashing is:
A swapping data between virtual memory and RAM too frequently.
B insufficient hard disk space.
C too many processors being managed by the operating system.
D inaccurate information stored in the registry.
Answer: A
24. All of the following are TRUE of Safe Mode EXCEPT:
A Safe Mode is a special diagnostic mode.
B Safe Mode loads all nonessential icons.
C Safe Mode allows users to troubleshoot errors.
D Safe Mode loads only the most essential devices.
Answer: B
25. Verification of a login name and password is known as:
A configuration.
B accessibility.
C authentication.
D logging in.
Answer: C
26. The combination of the operating system and the processor is referred to as the computer’s:
A CPU.
B platform.
C BIOS.
D CMOS.
Answer: B
27. The following message generally means:
A a nonsystem floppy has been left in the floppy disk drive.
B the CD drive is not functioning.
C the BIOS is corrupted.
D there is a problem loading a device.
Answer: A
28. Which of the following is the correct sequence of actions that takes place during the boot-up process?
A Load operating system ? Activate BIOS ? Perform POST ? Check configuration settings
B Activate BIOS ? Perform POST ? Load operating system ? Check configuration settings
C Perform POST ? Load operating system ? Activate BIOS ? Check configuration settings
D Activate BIOS ? Check configuration settings ? Perform POST ? Load operating system
Answer: B
29. All of the following are steps involved in the boot process EXCEPT:
A load the operating system into RAM.
B the power-on self-test.
C activate the basic input/output system (BIOS).
D load application programs.
Answer: D
30. The ____________, stored on a ROM chip, is responsible for loading the operating system from its permanent location on the hard drive into RAM.
A BIOS
B API
C device driver
D supervisor program
Answer: A
31. The basic input/output system (BIOS) is stored in:
A RAM.
B ROM.
C the CPU.
D the hard drive.
Answer: B
32. Ensuring that the essential peripheral devices are attached and operational is the ____________ process.
A configuration
B CMOS
C POST
D ROM
Answer: C
33. The memory resident portion of the operating system is called the:
A registry.
B API.
C CMOS.
D kernel.
Answer: D
34. Which of the following does NOT occur during the power-on self-test (POST)?
A The ScanDisk utility begins to run.
B The video card and video memory are tested.
C The BIOS identification process occurs.
D Memory chips are checked to ensure they are working properly.
Answer: A
35. All of the following are TRUE regarding virtual memory EXCEPT:
A any amount of RAM can be allocated to virtual memory.
B the setting for the amount of hard drive space to allocate to virtual memory can be manually changed.
C this temporary storage is called the swap file (or page file).
D virtual memory is physical space on the hard drive.
Answer: A
36. The operating system allows users to organize the computer’s contents in a hierarchical structure of directories that include all of the following EXCEPT:
A files.
B folders.
D drives.
D systems.
Answer: D
37. All of the following statements concerning windows are true EXCEPT:
A windows are an example of a command-driven environment.
B windows can be resized and repositioned on the desktop.
C more than one window can be open at a time.
D toolbars and scrollbars are features of windows.
Answer: A
38. All of the following statements concerning files are true EXCEPT:
A A file is a collection of related pieces of information stored together for easy reference.
B Files can be generated from an application.
C Files are stored in RAM.
D Files should be organized in folders.
Answer: C
39. Using Windows Explorer, a plus (+) sign in front of a folder indicates:
A an open folder.
B the folder contains subfolders.
C a text file.
D a graphics file.
Answer: B
40. In Windows XP, if you want to see the file size and modified dates of all files in a folder, the best viewing option is the __________ view.
A List
B Thumbnails
C Details
D Icon
Answer: C



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Saturday, January 15, 2011

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

1. Mettur dam is situated on the river
A. Cauvery
B. Narmada
C. Krishna
D. Mahanadi
Ans. (A)

2. Tirupati temple is located in—
(a) Karnataka
(b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Andhra Pradesh
(d) Kerala
Ans. (b)

3. Which Pakistani scientist is suspected to be involved in giving nuclear know how to other countries?
A. Shahariyar Khan
B. Imaran Khán
C. Javed Kazi
D. Abdul Qadir Khan
Ans. (D)

4. Who is the chief minister of Asom?
A. Tarun Gagoi
B. Hiteshwar Saikia
C. Prafful Kumar Mohanta
D. None of these
Ans. (A)

5. ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ slogan was given by
A. Indira Gandhi
B. Lal Bahadur Shastri
C. Mahatma Gandhi
D. Jawahar Lal Nehru
Ans. (B)

6. The people of Indus Valley Civilization worshipped
(a) Brahma
(b) Vishnu
(c) Pashupati
(d) Indra and Varun
Ans. (c)

7. Ashoka was related to:
(a) Haryak dynasty
(b) Mauryan dynasty
(c) Gupta dynasty
(d) None of these
Ans. (b)

8. The Rajasthan canal takes water from the river
A. Ravi
B. Ghaghara
C. Yamuna
D. Sutlej
Ans. (D)

9. International Women’s Day is celebrated on
A. May 27
B. January 9
C. April 7
D. March 8
Ans. (D)

10. Amnesty International is—
(a) a human rights group
(b) a refugee camp in Somalia
(c) a wing of World Bank
(d) none of these
Ans. (a)

11. Insulin controls the metabolism of—
(a) sugars
(b) fats
(c) proteins
(d) salts
Ans. (a)

12. Sariska bird sanctuary is situated in
A. Haryana
B. Gujarat
C. Rajasthan
D. Madhya Pradesh
Ans. (C)

13. If it is 4p.m. on Monday at l50° W longitude, what is the time at 150 ° E longitude?
A. Sunday, 8 p.m.
B. Tuesday, 4a.m.
C. Tuesday, 4p.m.
D. Tuesday, 12 noon
Ans. (D)

14. The mixed economy means
A. Equal importance for agriculture and heavy industries
B. Co-existence of small scale and large scale industries
C. Co-existence of the poor and the rich
D. Co-existence of private and public sectors
Ans. (D)

15. Loktak lake is situated in which state?
A. Manipur
B. Sikkim
C. Tripura
D. Mizoram
Ans. (A)

16. Which of the following diseases cannot be prevented by vaccination?
A. Whooping cough
B. Smallpox
C. Polio
D. Diabetes
Ans. (C)

17. Spondylitis affects which organ of the body?
A. Lungs
B. Kidney
C. Spinal cord
D: Brain
Ans. (C)

18. Who composed Ain-e-Akbari?
A. Farista
B. Ibn Batuta
C. Abul Fazal
D. Birbal
Ans. (C)

19. Who introduced the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’?
A. Dalhousie
B. Canning
C. Rippon
D. Lytton
Ans. (A)

20. Who permitted the English to establish first factory in India?
A. Akbar
B. Jehangir
C. Shahjahan
D. Aurangzeb
Ans. (B)

21. The word Buddha means
A. A winner
B. A preacher
C. An Enlightened
D. A traveler
Ans. (C)

22. Who determined the boundary between India and Pakistan?
A. Lord Mountbatten
B. Sir Radcliff
C. Sir Cripps
D. Laurence
Ans. (B)

23. When did the British Government annul the partition of Bengal?
A. 1919
B. 1917
C.1914
D. 1911
Ans. (D)

24. Who was the chairman of the Drafting Committee of the framers of the Indian constitution?
A. L. B. Kriplani
B. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
C. J. L. Nehru
D. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Ans. (D)

25. Who gave the most effective slogan “Do or Die” during Quit India Movement?
A. Mahatma Gandhi
B. J. L Nehru
C. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D. Subhash Chandra Bose
Ans. (A)

26. Where were the Olympics 2008 held?
A. China
B. Greece
C. Italy
D. France
Ans. (A)

27. Which vitamin is provided by sunlight to body?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
Ans. (d)

28. The longest river of Karnataka is
A. Krishna
B. Cauvery
C. Tungbhadra
D. Godavari
Ans. (A)

29. Which city of Karnataka is growing fast in the field of information technology and software?
A. Bhadravati
B. Mysore
C. Hassan
D. Bengluru
Ans. (D)

30. Which of the following is not a tax of the Central Government?
A. Income tax
B. Excise duty
C. Land revenue
D. Corporate tax
Ans. (C)

31. Which countries are related to Palk strait?
A. India and Sri Lanka
B. North Korea and South Korea
C. China and Pakistan
D. Britain and France
Ans. (A)

32. Which of the following states is the largest in area?
A. Madhya Pradesh
B. Uttar Pradesh
C. Rajasthan
D. Mahrashtra
Ans. (C)

33. Which of the following rivers flows to the west?
A. Godavari
B. Cauvery
C. Narmada
D. Krishna
Ans. (C)

34. Who was elected the permanent chairman of the Constituent Assembly on December 11, 1946?
A. J. L. Nehru
B. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
C. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
D. K.M. Munsi
Ans. (B)

35. First general elections were held in India during
A. 1949 — 50
B. 1950 — 51
C. 1951 — 52
D. 1956 — 7
Ans. (C)

36. The longest dam in India is
A. Bhakra Nangal dam
B. Nagarjun Sagar dam
C. Hirakud dam
D. Kosi dam
Ans. (C)

37. The jog water fall is situated in
A. Uttar Pradesh
B. West Bengal
C. Karnataka
D. Mahrashtra
Ans. (C)

38. The brightest planet is
A. Jupiter
B. Mars
C. Venus
D. Mercury
Ans. (C)

39. The currency of Italy is
A. Dollar
B. Waht
C. Pound
D. Lira
Ans. (D)

40. The rings are found around
A. Uranus
B. Jupiter
C. Mars
D. Saturn
Ans. (D)

41. The filament of an electric bulb is made of
A. copper
B. Iron
C. Aluminum
D. Tungsten
Ans. (D)

42. ‘Clove’ is obtained from
A. Root
B. Stem
C. Bud
D. Fruit
Ans. (C)

43. A mega city has a minimum population of:
(a) 10 lakhs
(b) 20 lakhs
(c) 50 lakhs
(d) 1 crore
Ans. (d)

44 The language of Chola rulers was:
(a) Sanskrit
(b) Kannada
(c) Tamil
(d) Telugu
Ans. (c)

45. Gandhiji started march to Dandi from:
(a) Dandi
(b) Sabarmati Ashram
(c) Gujarat
(c Champaran
Ans. (b)

46. Which the following rivers pass through valley?
(a) Godavari
(b) Narmada
(c) Krishna
(d) Mahanadi
Ans. (b)

47. The sex ratio is the highest in
(a) Kerala
(b) West Bengal
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d7. Mizoram
Ans. (a)

48. The post of collector in India was created in the
(a) 1772
(b) 1779
(c) 1792
(d) 1882
Ans. (a)

49. Who defeated the Marathas in
the third battle of Panipat?
(a) Afghans
(b) Mughals
(c) English
(d) French
Ans. (a)

50. The number of Puranas is:
(a) 18
(b) 21
(c) 23
(d) 16
Ans. (a)

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

1. Who was the first lady Prime Minister of the World?
A. Sirimavo Bhandranaike
B. Margaret Thatcher
C. Indira Gandhi
D. Golda Meir
Ans. (A)

2. Where is Central Potato Research Institute?
A. Shimla
B. Lucknow
C. Kanpur
D. Bhopal
Ans. (A)

3. With which field is ‘Vikram Seth’ associated?
A. Space Research
B. Literature
C. Journalism
D. Music
Ans. (B)

4. Who is known as the ‘Iron Man of India’?
A. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B. Lala Lajpat Rai
C. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
D. Subhash Chandra Bose
Ans. (C)

5. In which of the following fields did Tenzing Norgay distinguish himself?
A. Boxing
B. Mountaineering
C. Archery
D. Hockey
Ans. (B)

6. India’s anti-tank missile is:
A. Akash
B. Agni
C. Prithvi
D. Nag
Ans. (D)

7. The major difference between the Moderates and the Extremists in the Congress Session of 1907 was regarding —
(a) Education
(b) Boycott
(c) Satyagraha
(d) Swaraj
Ans. (b)

8. Devaluation of currency helps in promoting—
(a) imports
(b) exports
(c) tourism
(d) national income
Ans. (b)

9. Which Indian State is the largest producer of cashew nuts?
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Kerala
(c) Assam
(d) Andhra Pradesh
Ans. (b)

10. 1930 is associated with—
(a) Presentation of Nehru Report
(b) Dandi March
(c) Second Round Table Conference
(d) Lahore Congress
Ans. (b)

11. Indian Railways has recently decided to set up a new Wheel & Axle factory at:
A. Chhapra
B. Harnaut
C. Jamalpur
D. Darbhanga
Ans. (A)

12. Match the following cities of South India with their States:
(a) Coimbatore 1. Kerala
(b) Cochin (Kochi) 2. Karnataka
(c) Mangalore 3. Tamil Nadu
(d) Vijayanagar 4. Andhra Pradesh
A. a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2
B. a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4
C. a-1, b3, c-2, d-4
D. a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2
Ans. (B)

13. With which of the following gland/organ is ‘diabetes’ associated?
A. Thyroid
B. Liver
C. Pancreas
D. Kidney
Ans. (C)

14. Cornea is a part of which of the following organs of human body?
A. Heart
C. Eye
B. Kidney
D. Ear
Ans. (C)

15. The blood cholesterol level in 100 ml of blood in a normal person varies between:
A. 250 to 350 mg
B. 150 to 250 mg
C. 100 to 150 mg
D. 50 to 100 mg
Ans. (C)

16. Choose the correct chronological order of dynasties:
A. Lodi, Slave, Tughlaq, Khilji
B. Slave, Tughlaq, Khilji, Lodi
C. Khilji, Lodi, Slave, Tughlaq
D. Slave, Khilji, Tughlaq, Lodi
Ans. (D)

17. Token currency was introduced in India for the first time by:
A. Firuz Shah Tughlaq
B. Muhammad bin Tughlaq
C. Alauddin Khilji
D. Qutubuddin Aibak
Ans. (B)

18. Which of the following pairs is incorrect?
A. Bairam Khan — Akbar
B. Jaswant Singh — Aurangzeb
C. Amir Khusrau — Jehangir
D. Ambar Malik — Humayun
Ans. (C)

19. Match the. following ancient books with their authors:
(a) Mahabharata 1. Kalidasa
(b) Kadambari 2. Panini
(c) Meghadoot 3. Banabhatta
(d) Asthadhyayi 4. Ved Vyas
A. a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3,
B. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
C. a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2
D. a-2, b-3, c-1, d-4
Ans. (C)

20. Which of the following can be used for checking inflation temporari1y?
(a) Decrease in taxes
(b) Increase in wages
(c) Decrease in money supply
(d) None of these
Ans. (c)

21. With which aspect of Commerce are ‘bull’ and ‘hear’ associated?
A. Banking
B. Foreign Trade
C. Stock Market
D. Internal Trade
Ans. (C)

22. The Tenth Five-Year Plan pertains to which period?
A. 2000-01 to 2004-05
B. 2001-02 to 2005-06
C. 2002-03 to 2006-07
D. 2003-04 to 2007-08
Ans. (C)

23. Debt service ratio implies ratio between:
A. export and total payout on debt
B. import and total debt
C. domestic saving and• import
D. domestic saving and total debt
Ans. (A)

24 Who said, where wealth accumulates, men decay”?
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Mao-Tse-Thng
C. Karl Marx
D. Goldsmith
Ans. (D)

25. Gresham’s law in economic relates to:
A. distribution of goods and services
B. circulation of currency
C. supply and demand
D. consumption and supply
Ans. (B)

26. Which of the following statements regarding the Constituent Assembly is true?
1. It is not based on Adult Franchise
2. It resulted from direct elections
3. it was a multiparty body
4. it worked through several committees
A. l and 2
B. 2 and 3
C. 1 and 4
D. l, 2, 3 and 4
Ans. (C)

27. Which of the following bills cannot be introduced first in the Rajya Sabha?
A. Money Bills
B. Bills pertaining, to the powers of the Supreme court of State Judiciary
C. Bills proclaiming the state of emergency arising out of war or external aggression
D. Bills bringing a State under emergency rules
Ans. (A)

28. How long can a person continue to be a Minister without being a member of either Houses of the Parliament?
A. 3 months
B. 6 months
C. l year
D. No time limit
Ans. (B)

29. Centigrade and Fahrenheit scales give the same reading at:
A. —273°
B. —40°
C. —32°
D. 100°
Ans. (B)

30. Match the scientists with their inventions:
(a) C. Marconi 1. Gramophone
(b) J.L. Baird 2. Radio
(c) Alexander Graham Bell 3. Television
(d) Thomas Alva Edison 4. Telephone
A. a-l, b-2, c-3, d-4
B. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
C. a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
B. a-2, b-3, c-4, d-l
Ans. (D)

31. In the process of galvanization, an iron sheet is coated with:
A. aluminum
B. zinc
C. tin
D. chromium
Ans. (B)

32. Rate of evaporation does not depend upon:
A. temperature of the liquid
B. surface area of the liquid
C. mass of the liquid
D. air pressure
Ans. (C)

33. Which of the following process produce Hydrogen gas?
A. Electrolysis of water
B. Passing of steam over red hot iron
C. Reaction of zinc with hydrochloric acid
D. All of these
Ans. (A)

34. Match the following with their chemical formulae
(a) Common Salt 1. Na2 SiO3
(b) Alum 2. NaCl
(c) Gypsum 3. K2SO4. Al2 (SO4)3 24H2O
(d) Quartz 4. CaSO4. 2H2O
A. a-2, b-3, c-4, d-l
B. a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2
C. a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3
D. a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4
Ans. (A)

35. Which of the following is an element?
A. Ruby
B. Sapphire
C. Emerald
D. Diamond
Ans. (D)

36. Which of the following is true regarding a catalyst?
1. It increases the rate of reaction
2. It increases the activation energy
3. It reduces the activation energy
4. It is consumed in the reaction
A. 1 and 2
B. 1 and3
C. 2 and 4
D. 3 and 5
Ans. (B)

37. The hydraulic automobiles application of:
A. Archimedes’ Principle
B. Pascal’s law
C. Bernoulli’s theorem
D. Faraday’s law
Ans. (B)

38. Match the following countries with their capitals:
(a) Nigeria 1. Luanda
(b) Qatar 2. Abuja
(c) Zambia 3. Lusaka
(d) Angola 4. Doha
A. a-2, b-4, c-3, d-l
B. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-l
C. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
D. a-4, b-2, c-3, d-l
Ans. (A)

39. Which of the following planets orbits around the sun in backward direction from east to west?
A. Earth
C. Venus
B. Mercury
D. Jupiter
Ans. (C)

40. More than two third of world’s tin comes from which country?
A. China
B. Malaysia
C. Nigeria
D. Brazil
Ans. (A)

41. The largest temple in the world
A. Meenakshi Temple
B. Angkor Vat
C. Pashupati Nath Temple of Nepal
D. Kashi Vishwanath Temple
Ans. (B)

42. Aryabhatta was India’s renowned:
A. Poet
B. Physicist
C. Mathematician
D. Physician
Ans. (C)

43. Which of the following pair does not match?
A. Sariska Sanctuary – Rajasthan
B. Kaziranga National Park – Assam (Asom)
C. Ghana Bird Sanctuary – Meghalaya
D. Shivpuri National Park – Madhya Pradesh
Ans. (C)

44. Match the following hill stations of India with their states:
(a) Gulmarg 1. Rajasthan
(b) Dalhousie 2. Madhya Pradesh
(c) Mt. Abu 3. Jammu and Kashmir
(d) Panchmarhi 4. Himachal Pradesh
5. Uttaranchal
A. a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2
B. á-5, b-3, c-i, d-2
C. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-5
D. a-5, b-4, c-2, d-1
Ans. (A)

45. On which river the Pong Dam has been constructed?
A. Ganga
B. Tapti
C. Yamuna
D. Beas
Ans. (D)

46. Which country is the world’s largest supplier of silk?
A.. USA
B. Japan
C. China
D. India
Ans. (C)

47. Which one of the following does not contribute to development in India?
A. Technological research
B. Population growth
C. Diversification of industry
D. Increased saving
Ans. (B)

48. ‘Jog’ the highest water fall in India is located in the state of
A. Uttaranchal.
B. Jammu and Kashmir
C. Tamil Nadu
D. Karnataka
Ans. (D)

49. The President can proclaim emergency on the written advice of the:
A. Chief Justice
B. Vice-President
C. Prime Minister
D. Union Cabinet
Ans. (C)

50. The first state in India carved out on a linguistic basis was:
A. Andhra Pradesh
B. Orissa
C. Manipur
D. Kerala
Ans. (A)

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

1. The function of hemoglobin in body is—
(a) Transport of oxygen.
(b) Destruction of bacteria
(c) Prevention of anaemia
(d) Utilization of iron
Ans. (a)

2. Which disease is more common among agricultural workers as compared to urban population?
(a) Lung’s disease
(b) Cirrhosis of liver
(c) Hookworm infection
(d) Cancer
Ans. (c)

3. Biological fixation of nitrogen occurs most commonly in which of the following crops?
(a) Pulses
(b) Rice
(c) Wheat
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)

4. Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
(a) Encephalitis — Brain
(b) Colitis — Colon
(c) Hepatitis — Liver
(d) Jaundice — Throat
Ans. (a)

5. Which of the following, types of clothes is manufactured by using petroleum product?
(a) Rayon silk
(b) Terylene
(c) Silk
(d) Cotton
Ans. (b)

6. Which one of the following grows under the tree?
(a) Cabbage
(b) Bengal gram
(c) Peanuts
(d) Castor
Ans. (c)

7. Which of the following is an example of a plant which bears seeds but no fruits?
(a) Cotton plant
(b) Peepal plant
(c) Eucalyptus tree
(d) Pine tree
Ans. (a)

8. Radioactive element which has been found to have large reserves in India is—
(a) Uranium
(b) Thorium
(c) Radium
(d) Plutonium
Ans. (a)

9. The image formed on the retina of a human eye is—
(a) Real and upright
(b) Real and inverted
(c) Imaginary and upright
(d) Imaginary and inverted
Ans. (b)

10. In increasing sequence, the major elements, present in the human body are—
(a) Calcium, iron, sodium, phosphorus
(b) Calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur
(c) Calcium, iron, sodium, sulphur
(d) Calcium, potassium, phosphorus, iron
Ans. (c)

11. A light sensitive compound used in photography is—
(a) Silver chloride
(b) Silver sulphide
(c) Silver bromide
(d) Silver oxide
Ans. (c)

12. Protective foods in our diet are?
(a) fats and vitamins
(b carbohydrates and minerals
(c) vitamins .and minerals
(d) proteins and carbohydrates
Ans. (c)

13. The ancient name of Bengal was—
(a) Kamrupa
(b) Vasta
(ç) Gauda
(d) Vallabhi
Ans. (c)

14. Ahilyabai was the queen of?
(a) Gwalior
(b) Malwa
(c) Jaipur
(d) Bijapur
Ans. (a)

15. Moorish traveller, Ibn Batutah, came to India during the time of -
(a) Alauddin Khilji
(b) Firoz Shah Tughlaq
(c) Balban,
(d) Muhammed Bin Tughlaq
Ans. (d)

16. The main occupation of Harappan civilization was—
(a) agriculture
(b) cattle rearing
(c) commerce
(d) hunting
Ans. (c)

17. The Mahabalipuram temples were built by the King of dynasty?
(a) Gupta
(b) Chola
(c) Pallavas
(d) Kushans
Ans. (c)

18. The first telegraph line between Calcutta and Agra was opened in—
(a) 1852
(b) 1853
(c) 1854
(d 1855
Ans. (b)

19. The first discourse of Buddha in Sarnath is called—
(a) Mahabhiniskranan
(b) Mahaparinirvana
(c) Mabamastakabhishekha
(d) Dharmachakrapravartan
Ans. (d)

20. The political and cultural centre of the Pandyas was—
(a) Vengi
(b) Madurai
(c) Kanchipuram
(d) Mahabalipuram
Ans. (b)

21. What is the correct chronological order in which the following invaded India?
(1) Huns
(2) Kushans
(3) Aryans
(4) Greeks
(a) 4, 3, 2, 1
(b) 3, 4, 2, 1
(c) 4, 2, 3, 1
(d) 3, 4, 1, 2
Ans. (b)

22. Who wrote Mitakshara, a book on Hindu law?
(a) Nayachandra
(b) Amoghavarsa
(c) Vijaneswara
(d) Kumban
Ans. (c)

23. Gupta empire declined in the fifth century A.D. as a consequence of—
(a) Chalukya raids
(b) Greek invasion
(c) Hun invasion
(d) Pallava raids
Ans. (c)

24. Who founded the Hindu Shah dynasty of Punjab?
(a) Vasumitra
(b) Kallar
(c) Jayapala
(d) Mahipala
Ans. (b)

25. The main external threat to the Sultanate of Delhi was posed by the—
(a) Mongols
(b) Afghans
(c) Iranians
(d) None of these
Ans. (d)

26. Who among the following was a Leading exponent of Gandhian thoughts?
(a) J. L. Nehru
(b) M.N. Roy
(c) Vinoba Bhave
(d) Jai Prakash Narayan.
Ans. (c)

27. Who were the immediate successors of the Imperial Mauryas in Maghádha?
(a) Kushans
(b) Pandyas
(c) Satvahanas
(d) Sungas
Ans. (d)

28. Both Mahavira and Buddha preached during the reign of—
(a) Ajatasatru
(b) Bimbisara
(c) Nandivardhan
(d) Uday
Ans. (b)

29. Jahangir Mahal is located in—
(a) Delhi
(b) Fatehpur Sikri
(c) Agra Fort
(d) Sikandara
Ans. (c)

30. The percentage of glucose present in normal urine is—
(a) 0.1%
(b) 2%
(c) 9.5%
(d) 0%
Ans. (d)

31. The magnetic effect of electric current was first observed by—
(a) Henry
(b) Oersted
(c) Faraday
(d) Volta
Ans. (c)

32. Of the total water on the earth, fresh water reserves constitute approximately—
(a) 4.5%
(b) 2.7%
(c) 1.2%
(d) 5.8%
Ans. (b)

33. The black hole theory was discovered by—
(a) S. Chandrasekhar
(b) Har Govind Khurana
(c) C.V. Raman
(d) S. Ramanujam
Ans. (a)

34. The main contribution of Chola dynasty in the field of administration lies in—
(a) systematic provincial administration
(b) a well planned revenue system
(c) a well organized central government
(d) an organized local self government
Ans. (d)

35. Who founded the philosophy of Pustimarga?
(a) Chaitanya
(b) Nanak
(c) Surdas
(d) Ballabhacharya
Ans. (d)

36. Which of the following-battles changed the destiny of a Mughal ruler in India?—
(a) Haldighati
(b) Panipat II
(c) Khanua
(d) Chausa
Ans. (d)

37. ‘The Vedas contain all they truth; was interpreted by—
(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Swami Dayananda
(c) Ram Mohan Rai
(d) S. Radhakrisnan
Ans. (b)

38. Match the columns—
Column I Column II
A. Second battle of Panipat 1. Decline of Vijaya Nagar
B. Second battle 2. British rule in India
C. Battle of Talikota 3. Turkish rule in India
D. Battle of Plassey 4. Mughal rule in India
5. Slave dynasty in India
Codes:
A B C D
(a) 2 3 4 1
(b) 3 1 2 4
(c) 5 3 2 1
(d) 4 3 1 2
Ans. (d)

39. Babar entered India for the first time from the west through—
(a) Kashmir
(b) Sindh
(c) Punjab
(d) Rajasthan
Ans. (c)

40. Which was first among the following?
(â) Doctrine of Lapse
(b) Subsidiary Alliance
(c) Permanent Settlement
(d) Double Government
Ans. (d)

41. The name of Lord ‘Cornwallis is associated with the—
(a) Dual government
(b) Maratha wars
(c) System of subsidiary alliances
(d) Permanent settlement
Ans. (d)

42. Sir Charles Wood’s Dispatch of 1854 dealt with—
(a) administrative reforms
(b) social reforms
(c) economic reforms
(d) educational reforms
Ans. (d)

43. The sea route to India was discovered by the—
(a) Dutch
(b) English
(c) Portuguese
(d) French
Ans. (c)

44. Which of the following pairs is correct?
(a) Ashvaghosa — Vikramaditya
(b) Banabhatta — Harshavardhana
(c) Harisena — Kanishka
(d) Kalidasa — Samudragupta
Ans. (b)

45. 4th July, 1776 is important in world history because of—
(a) Battle of Plassey
(b) Sea route to India was discovered
(c) English King Charles II was executed
(d) American Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence
Ans. (d)

46. Rowlatt Act was passed in the year—
(a) 1917
(b) 1919
(c) 1921
(d) 1932
Ans. (b)

47. Communal electorate in India was introduced through which of the following acts?
(a) 1909
(b) 1919
(c) 1921
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)

48. Abhinav Bharat was organized by—
(a) Bhai Parmanand
(b) Khudiram Bose
(c) Vir Savarkar
(d) None of these
Ans. (c)

49. On 22nd December which of the following places has the largest day and shortest night?
(a) Melbourne
(b) Moscow
(c) Madrid
(d) Madras
Ans. (a)

50. High pressure subtropical calm belts known as ‘Horse Latitudes’ lie between—
(a) 0° and 15°
(b) 20° and 25°
(c) 30° and 35°
(d) none of these
Ans. (c)

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

1. Match List I with List II
List I List II
A. Rowlett Act 1. Indian magistrate can also give the decision on subject
of British matter
B. Mountford Improvement 2. Gave the power thinking on political affairs without jury
C. Ilbert Bill 3. Clear division on Government work between centre and
state
D. Indian Council 4. Used the process of election, though in vague way.
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 2 3 1 4
(b) 1 4 3 2
(c) 1 3 2 4
(d) 3 2 1 4
Ans. (a)

2. Which blood – group is the universal donor?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) O
(d) AB
Ans. (c)

3. Match the leaders in List I with the movements they led in List II.
List I List II
A. Tomma Dore 1. Savara Rebellion
B. Shambhunath Pal 2. Munda Revolt
C. Birsa Munda 3. Koya Rebellion
D. Radhakrishna Dandasena 4. Pabna Uprising
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 3 4 2 1
(b) 4 1 2 3
(c) 4 2 3 1
(d) 3 1 2 4
Ans. (a)

4. Match List I with List II
List I List II
A. William Bentick 1. Establishment of Public work
B. Charles Metcalfe 2.Annexation of Sindh
C. Ellen borough 3. Abolition of Persian as Court Language
D. Dalhousie 4. Signing of the treaty with Ranjit Singh
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 3 4 2 1
(b) 4 1 2 3
(c) 4 3 2 1
(d) 3 1 2 4
Ans. (c)

5. Match List I with List II
List I List II
A. S.C Bose 1. Chairman of Radical Congress
B. Jawaharlal Nehru 2. Lal Kurti Andolan
C. Abdul Gaffar Khan 3. Bardoli Andolan
D. Sardar Pte1 4. In Lahore Conference Congress proposed whole revolution
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 4 1 3 2
(b) 1 4 2 3
(c) 4 3 1 2
(d) 4 1 2 3
Ans. (b)

6. London is situated on the banks of river
(a) Thames
(b) Tyne
(c) Avon
(d) Clyde
Ans. (a)

7. From the sun rays we get
(a) Vitamin A
(b) Vitamin B
(c) Vitamin C
(d) Vitamin D
Ans. (d)

8. Match List I with List II
List- I List- II
A. HaiderAli 1. Road and land development
B. Krishna Deva Rai 2. Construction of Mackbara and goal
C. Shershah Suri 3. Telugu Sahitya
D. Afghan and Turk 4. Arts of war
The correct answer code is
A B C D
(a) 1 2 3 4
(b) 2 3 1 4
(c) 4 3 1 2
(d) 1 4 2 3
Ans. (c)

9. Match List -I symptoms of founder with dynasty List- II
List -I List- II
A. Parts of big stone and minimum 1. Lodi dynasty
B. Pure Aperture 2. Slave dynasty
C. Half Gumbaj Mahadware 3. Mughal dynasty
D. Dohre Gumbaj 4. Tughlaq dynasty
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 4 1 2 3
(b) 1 2 4 3
(c) 4 2 1 3
(d) 4 2 3 1
Ans. (d)

10. Match the Maratha Chiefs (List- I) with their respective seats of power (List- II)
List -I List- II
A. Peshwa 1. Gwalior
B. Gaekwad 2. Poona
C. Scindhia 3. Nagpur
D. Holker 4. Baroda
E. Bhons1e 5. Indore
The correct answer code is:
A B C D E
(a) 2 4 1 5 3
(b) 2 5 1 3 4
(c) 1 5 3 2. 4
(d) 5 2 1 3 4
Ans. (a)

11. Match important court poets / scholars. (List -I) with their patrons (List -II)
List- I List- II
A. Jaidev 1. Vikramaditya I
B. Bilhana 2. Lakshaman Sena
C. Amarsimha 3. Yashovarman of Kannauj
D. Vakpatiraja 4. Chandragupta 11
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 4 1 3 2
(b) 3 1 2 4
(c) 2 1 4 3
(d) 4 1 2 3
Ans. (c)

12. Match List -I (Inventor) with List- II (Ways)
List- I List- II
A. Christopher Columbus 1.Near the travelling of southern parts of South Africa
B. Bartholomen Diaz 2. Travelling from Spain and crossing the Atlantic and
going through west region by seaway.
C. Magellan 3. Reaching the Malabar Soil after circulating the
southern parts of South Africa
D. Vasco-de- Gama 4. Travelling by sea-way of all countries.
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 2 4 3 1
(b) 2 1 4 3
(c) 4 1 3 2
(d) 4 2 3 1
Ans. (b)

13. Which of the following songs was so melodious for Mahatma Gandhi, who wrote in this regard. ‘If I forget Bhagwatgita, this only song gives me strength and promotes……
(a) Jan Gan Man Adhinayak….
(b) Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram….
(c) Vaishnav Jan to Tene Kahie….
(d) Iswar Allah Tero Nam..,.
Ans. (b)

14. Match List -I with List -II
List -I List- II
A. Nagarjuna 1.Knowlèdge is the primary means of Salvation
B. Shankaryacharya 2. Woman Saint
C. Andal 3. Tried to assimilate Bhakti to the tradition of the Vedas
D. Ramanuja 4. Played an important role in the spread of Buddhism
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 4 1 3 2
(b) 3 1 2 4
(c) 3 1 4 2
(d) 4 1 2 3
Ans. (d)

15. Match. List I with List II
List –I List -II
A. Kane cave temples 1. Mahayana
B. Khandagiri rock cut halls 2. Shaivite
C. Bagh caves 3. Hinayana
D. Badami cave temp1es 4. Jain
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 3 4 1 2
(b) 2 3 4 1
(c) 4 3 1 2
(d) 3 4 2 1
Ans. (a)

16. ‘Milk’ is an example of:
(a) Collidal
(b) Gel
(c) Imulsion
(d) Foam
Ans. (a)

17. Which of the following trees gains the oil of Tarpin?
(a) Netum
(b) Mycuss
(c) Devdar
(d) Chir
Ans. (d)

18. Match List I with List II
List-I List-II

A. Carbohydrate 1. Pepsin
B. Enzyme 2. Starch
C. Hormone 3. Kerotin
D. Protein 4. Projestron
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 1 2 4 3
(b) 2 1 4 3
(c) 2 l 3 4
(d) 1 2 3 4
Ans. (b)

19. Herbarium is
(a) collection of herb in a dry place
(b) one of the centers where different types of herbs are there
(c) a centre where the medical herbs are kept
(d) a centre where the dry botanical elements are conserved
Ans. (a)

20. The widely used antibiotic, penicillin, is produced by
(a) an algae
(b) a bacterium
(c) a fungus
(d) chemical means
Ans. (b)

21. Lichen is considered to be a symbiotic association of two organisms. Which organisms are involved in it?
(a) Algae and bacteria
(b) Algae and fungi
(c) Algae and bryophytes
(d) Fungi and bryophytes
Ans. (a)

22. Which of the following is a microelement?
(a) Chlorine
(b) Hydrogen
(c) Nitrogen
(d) Oxygen
Ans. (b)

23. Match the Scientific Discoveries in List- I with the Scientists in List- II
List- I List-II
A. DNA structure 1. Jacob and Monod
B. ABO blood groups 2. Barbara McClintock
C. Jumping genes 3. Watson and Crick
D. Regulatory genes 4. Land Steiner
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 4 3 1 2
(b) 3 4 1 2
(c) 3 4 2 1
(d) 4 3 2 1
Ans. (b)

24. Match List -I with List-II
List- I List -II
(Herb) (Resources)
A. Kunain 1. Leaves
B. Digitlis 2. Fruits
C. Roubolfia 3. Epidermis
D. Heroin 4. Root
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 1 2 4 3
(b) 3 1 4 2
(d) 4 3 1 2
(d) 2 1 3 4
Ans. (a)

25. After few distance the television signal is not adopted by T.V. set because of-
(a) weak signal
(b) weak receiver antenna
(c) absorption of signal by air
(d) aperture of earth
Ans. (d)

26. In respect of D.C. A.C. is profitable
(a) In A.C. maximum of electric energy are present
(b) A.C. voltage is free from increase or decrease
(c) Cost of A.C. production is less
(d) A.C can send in maximum distance without less power consumption
Ans. (d)

27. Which of the planets have not any satellite, more around the planets?
(a) Venus and Mars
(b) Mercury and Venus
(c) Mars and Venus
(d Neptune and Pluto
Ans. (b)

28. In cold regions, where temperature may fall below 0°C, farmers fill their fields with water to protect their crops from damage because
(a) water is abundantly available in cold regions
(b) water has low specific heat capacity and volume of water increases when temperature falls below 4°C
(c) water has high specific heat capacity
(d) plenty of water is absorbed by soil in cold regions
Ans. (c)

29. A rocket and a jet engine differ because
A. their working principles are entirely different
B. a rocket uses only liquid fuels whereas a jet can use solid fuels as well
C. while a rocket carries its own oxygen supply, a jet draws its air out of the atmosphere
D. a rocket can propel vehicles into outer space whereas a jet cannot
The correct combination is:
(a) C, D
(c) A, B.
(b) B, C, D
(d) A, C, D
Ans. (d)

30. Name the Constitutional Amendment by which three new states Chattisgarh, Uttaranchal and Jharkhand have been created.
(a) 81st Constitutional Amendment, 1999
(b) 82nd Constitutional Amendment, 2000
(c) 83rd Constitutional Amendment, 2000
(d) 84th Constitutional Amendment, 2000
Ans. (b)

31. Who is the author of the book ‘My Girlhood: An Autobiography’?
(a) Arundhati Roy
(b) Taslima Nasreen
(b) Medha Patkar
(d) Sobha De
Ans. (b)

32. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists of mainly
(a) Methane, Ethane, Hexane
(b) Ethane, Hexane, Butane
(c) Methane, Butane, Propane
(d) Methane, Butane, Hexane
Ans. (a)

33. After defeat of which Hindu emperor Vijayanagar Dynasty ended?
(a) Krishnadeva Rai
(b) Ram. Raja
(c) Harihar Rai
(d) Bukka Rai
Ans. (c)

34. Match List I with List II
List- I List- II
A. Hirakud barrage l. Vyas
B. Thin barrage 2. Chenab
C. Salal project 3. Ravi
D. Ponga barrage 4. Mahanadi
The correct answer code is:
A B C D
(a) 3 4 2 1
(b) 3 4 1 2
(c) 4 3 1 2
(d) 4 3 2 1
Ans. (b)

35. In music seventh ‘Sa’, ‘Re’, ‘Ga’
(a) the frequency of pronunciation ‘Sa’ is less than the frequency of ‘Re’, ‘Ga’
(b) the frequency of pronunciation ‘Sa’ is greater than the frequency of ‘Re’, ‘Ga’
(c) frequencies re decreasing respectively
(d) frequencies are equal of all pronunciations
Ans. (d)

36. If two persons are talking in space of moon then-
(a) in respect to earth, the sound is listened by each other on moon after maximum time.
(b) the time taken in listening to the sound are equal at both places.
(c) sound cannot be heard on moon.
(d) sound of echo can be heard by each other again and again.
Ans. (a)

37. Though water is transparent to visible light yet it is not possible to see distant objects in the fog which consists of fine drops of water suspended in air.
The reason for this is that-
(a) fog affects our vision adversely.
(b) most of the light is scattered and hence this appears invisible.
(c) the light rays suffer total internal reflection and cannot reach directly the eyes of the observer.
(d) fine drops of water are opaque to visible light.
Ans. (d)

38. Producer gas is used as a fuel and also as a source of nitrogen.
The gas is obtained by
(a) spraying oil into hot retorts.
(b) passing a mixture of steam and air over incandescent coke
(c) passing air through a bed of incandescent coke.
(d) passing steam over incandescent coke
Ans. (b)

39. The earth moves round ‘the sun an elliptical path. The speed of the earth in its orbital path around the sun
(a) is uniform
(b) decreases when the distance between them increases
(c) increases when the distance between them decreases
(d) none of these
Ans. (d)

40. Zimbabwe was formerly known as —
(a) Rhodesia
(b) Mali
(c) Namibia
(d) Zanzibar
Ans. (a)

41. Which of the following pairs is correct?
(a) Bonn — Danube
(b) Baghdad — Tigris
(c) Rome — Seine
(d) Paris — Tiber
Ans. (b)

42. The canal joining Baltic Sea to North Sea is—
(a) Kiel Canal
(b) Suez Canal
(c Panama Canal
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)

43. Which of the following rivers does not form any delta at its mouth?
(a) Cauvery
(b) Mahanadi
(c) Godavari
(d) Tapti
Ans. (d)

44. Srinagar is situated on the bank of river—
(a) Ravi
(b) Sutlej
(c) Jhelam
(d) Chenab
Ans. (c)

45. The Shompens are the tribal people of—
(a) Andaman
(b) Nicobar
(c) Lakshadweep
(d) None of these
Ans. (b)

46. Match the following—
Column I Column II
A. Manas 1. Hangul
B. Dachigam 2. Elephant
C. Mudumalai 3. Tiger
D. Kaziranga 3. Rhinoceros
Codes:
A B C D
(a) 1 2 3 4
(b) 3 1 2 4
(c) 2 4 3 1
(d) 1 3 4 2
Ans. (b)

47. In India Plan holiday was after—
(a) China -India war of 1962
(b) Drought of 1966
(c) Pakistan War of 1971
(d) Pakistan War of 1965
Ans. (b)

48. Which of the following is not a ‘Free Trade Zone’?
(a) Kandla
(b) Mumbai
(c) Vishakhapatnam
(d) Trivandrum
Ans. (a)

49. ‘Butterfly’ word is related to—
(a) basketball
(b) snooker
(c) swimming
(d) boating
Ans. (c)

50. ‘Astigmatism’ is a disease of—
(a) ears
(b) eyes
(c) nose
(d) throat
Ans. (b)

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

1. The speed of sound wave is increased due to—
(a) Decrease in temperature

(b) Increase in temperature
(c) Increase then decrease in temperature
(d) None of these
Ans. (b)

2. Railway earns mare in carrying—
(a) Passengers
(b) Goods
(c) Construction work
(d) None of these
Ans. (b)

3. Which of the following generates highest income?
(a) Software
(b) NRI remittance
(c) RBI-interest rate
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)

4. Which of the following statements is not correct about sound waves?
(a) It is a straight line
(b) It has energy
(c) It is in wave form
(d) Sound travels faster in vacuum than in air
Ans. (d)

5. The drop of water is spherical in shape due to—
(a) Surface tension
(b) Viscosity
(c) Gravitation
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)

6. The Telugu-Ganga project is related to—
(a) Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh
(b) Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
(c) Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh
(d) Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh
Ans. (a)

7. The time required to reach the sunlight to the earth is—
(a) 6 minutes 40 seconds
(b) 8 minutes 20 seconds
(c) 7 minutes 20 seconds
(d) 9 minutes 10 seconds
Ans. (b)

8. The chlorine gas turns iodine—
(a) Blue
(b) Red
(c) Green
(d) Orange
Ans. (a)

9. The maximum intensity of earthquake on Richter Scale is
(a) l
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) l0
Ans. (d)

10. The non-metal which conducts both heat and electricity is—
(a) iodine
(b) chlorine
(c) phosphorus
(d) graphite
Ans. (d)

11. The cities Halebid and Belur were constructed by
(a) Cholas
(b) Hoyasalas
(c) Kakatiyas
(d) Pállavas
Ans. (b)

12. Covalent bond is formed by—
(a) sharing of electrons
(b) donation of electrons
(c) sharing of protons
(d) none of these
Ans. (a)

13. Carbon forms more compounds because—
(a) carbon is easily available
(b) valency of carbon is more
(c) of covalent bond and ionic bonds
(d) none of these
Ans. (c)

14. The language specially used for Database Management is—
(a) Visual-basic
(b) Standard Query Language
(c) Fortran
(d) None of these
Ans. (b)

15. The principle of dynamo is—
(a) electromagnetic induction
(b) magnetic effect of current
(c) heating effect of current
(d) none of these
Ans. (a)

16. Mohr Scale is used to measure—
(a) hardness of minerals
(b) hardness of water
(c) viscosity of gases
(d) none of these
Ans. (a)

17. In ‘Skandpuran’ Garhwal is known by the name of—
(a) Kedarkhand
(b) Kurmachàl
(c) Jallandhar
(d) Gadhdesh
Ans. (a)

18. Who is the director of film 36 Chaurangi Lane’?
(a) Satyajeet Ray
(b) Shyam Benegal
(c) Prakash Jha
(d) Aparna Sen
Ans. (d)

19. Which of the following is correctly matched?
(a) Tharu — Bihar
(b) Semang — Yeman
(c) Mesai — Mountain of East Africa
(d) Badu — Malaya
Ans. (a)

20. Author of ‘Post Office’ is—
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Mulkraj Anand
(c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(d) Vishnu Sharma
Ans. (b)

21. Which of the following metals is the worst conductor of electricity?
(a) Aluminum
(b) Copper
(c) Iron
(d) Carbon
Ans. (d)

22. Which of the following is not correctly matched?
(a) Sale Tax — State Government
(b Income Tax — State Government
(c) Excise Duty — Central Government
(d) Chungi — Municipal Corporation
Ans. (b)

23. Finance Commission is formulated by—
(a) Prime Minister
(b) President
(c) Finance Ministry
(d) Planning Commission
Ans. (b)

24. Which of the following affects the Indian Administration?
(a) Unionism
(b) Parliamentary Democracy
(c) Planning
(d) All of these
Ans. (d)

25. World Health Day is celebrated on the date of—
(a) 7th April
(b) 15th March
(c) 9th April
(d) 10th April.
Ans. (a)

26. Which one of the following poets belongs to royal family?
(a) Kamban
(b) Bharati
(c) Ilangoadigal
(d) Chengundanar
Ans. (c)

27. Atomic Number is equal to the number of—
(a) electron
(b) proton
(c) neutron
(d) either electron or proton
Ans. (d)

28. Phosphorus can be preserved in -
(a) kerosene
(b) water
(c) petrol
(d) ether
Ans. (b)

29. Which of the following substances is obtained during the fractional distillation of petroleum at 260-350°C?
(a) Kerosene
(b) Petrol
(c) Naphtha
(d) Diesel
Ans. (d)

30. Which of the following does not contain chlorophyll?
(a) Fern
(b) Mosses
(c) Fungi
(d) Algae
Ans. (c)

31. Major difference between animal and plant cells is—
(a) cell membrane
(b) chloroplast
(c) nucleus
(d) cell wall
Ans. (d)

32 Fall of Bastille is related to
(a) Hundred Year War
(b) Napoleon War
(c) French Revolution
(d) England War
Ans. (c)

33. Rockfort passes between—
(a) Chennai and Trichinopoly
(b) Madurai and Tirunelveli
(c) Chennai and Bangalore
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)

34. CERCL is located in—
(a) Chennai
(b) Hyderabad
(c) Bangalore
(d) Karaikudi
Ans. (d)

35. Birth place of Bharathiyar is—
(a) Ettayapuram
(b) Thiruchengode
(c) Madurai
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)

36. Shiva Temple in Tanjore was built by—
(a) Pallava
(b) Chola
(c) Chalukyas
(d) Rashtrakuta
Ans. (b)

37. Numismatics is related to the study of—
(a) coins
(b) inscriptions
(c) epigraph
(d) sherds
Ans. (a)

38. Tamil version of Ramayana was written by—
(a) Kamban
(b) Valmiki
(c) Thiruvalluvar
(d) Ilango
Ans. (a)

39. Kautilya’s Arthashastra deals with—
(a) economy and politics
(b) inter-State relations
(c) ethics
(d) statecraft
Ans. (a)

40. Sarnath was an important place in the life of the Buddha where he—
(a) was born.
(b) gave his first sermon
(c) attained enlightenment
(d) died
Ans. (b)

41. Who was the political guru of Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(b) Ba1 Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Swami Vivekanand
(d) Rabindra Nath Tagore
Ans. (a)

42. Mirage is based on the principle of—
(a) double refraction
(b) total reflection
(c) scattering
(d) refraction
Ans. (b)

43. Set Top Box is related to—
(a) CAP
(b) CAS
(c) Cable Networking
(d) Internet
Ans. (b)

44. Which one of the following is not a Fundamental Right?
(a) Right to Exploitation
(b) Equal Pay for Equal Work
(c) Right o Freedom
(d) Equality before Law
Ans. (b)

45. Chennai Head Post Office is the name of—
(a) St. George Fort
(b) Rippon Building.
(c) Kuralagam
(d) Rajaji Hall
Ans. (b)

46. What is the share of India in global trade?
(a) 1.7%
(b) 1.4%
(c) 0.8%
(d) 10%
Ans. (c)

47. Transformer is used to-
(a) convert AC into DC
(b) convert DC into AC
(c) step up or step down D.C.
(d) step up or step down A.C.
Ans. (d)

48. The function of hemoglobin is
(a) transport oxygen
(b) release oxygen
(c) transport CO2
(d) release CO2
Ans. (a)

49. Which words were added to the Preamble to the Constitution of India by 42nd Amendment?
(a) Democratic and Socialist
(b) Secular and Sovereign
(c) Socialist and Secular
(d Democratic and Republic
Ans. (c)

50. Forty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of India is related to—
(a) Fundamental Rights are superior to the Directive Principles of State Policy.
(b) Right to Property ceased to be a Fundamental Right.
(c) Directive Principles were made at par with the Fundamental Rights.
(d) None of these
Ans. (b)

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

SBI POs EXAM QUESTIONS

General Awareness

1. What is the population of India ?
(A) 98 crores
(B) More than 2 billion
(C) More than 1 billion
(D) Less than 96 crores
(E) 96 crores

2. Thermostat is an instrument used to_________

(A) measure flow of current
(B) measure intensity of voltage
(C) regulate temperature
(D) regulate velocity of sound
(E) None of these

3. Wimbledon Trophy is associated with________

(A) Football (B) Cricket
(C) Hockey (D) Basketball
(E) Lawn Tennis

4. GNP stands for_________
(A) Gross National Product
(B) Group Net Product
(C) Grand Nuclear Process
(D) Group Networking Process
(E) None of these

5. ‘Acoustics’ is the science of the study of_________

(A) Light (B) Sound
(C) Electricity (D) Magnetism
(E) None of these

6. Noise pollution is measured in the unit called_____
(A) micron
(B) nautical miles
(C) ohms
(D) ampere
(E) decibel

7. ‘Heavy Water’ is used in which of the following types of indus-tries ?
(A) Sugar
(B) Nuclear Power
(C) Textile
(D) Coal
(E) None of these

8. Who amongst the following is the author of the book ‘Indomi-table Spirit’?
(A) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(B) Dr. Manmohan Singh
(C) Justice K. G. Balakrishna
(D) Mr. Natwar Singh
(E) None of these

9. Which of the following is not the name of popular IT/Software Company ?
(A) Wipro (B) Mastek
(C) Toyota (D) IBM
(E) Infosys

10. ‘Yen’ is the currency of_________

(A) South Korea
(B) China
(C) Indonesia
(D) Malaysia
(E) None of these

11. Baichung Bhutia whose name was in news is a well known__________
(A) Music Director of Indian films
(B) English author of Indian origin
(C) Journalist
(D) Politician
(E) Sports Personality

12. ‘Richter Scale’ is used to measure which of the following ?
(A) Intensity of Tsunami Waves
(B) Intensity of Earthquake
(C) Density of salt in Sea water
(D) Flow of electric current
(E) None of these

13. Which of the following best explains ‘e-governance’?

(A) Improving the functioning of government
(B) Teaching government emp-loyees the basics of computing
(C) Delivery of public services through internet
(D) Framing of cyber-laws of chatting on internet
(E) Convergence of e-mail and video-conferencing

14. CAS is associated with which of the following ?

(A) Legal System Reforms
(B) Piped gas line
(C) Cable T.V.
(D) Mobile phone regulation
(E) None of these

15. Tata Steel recently acquired the Corus, a steel giant situated in_____

(A) South Africa
(B) Ukraine
(C) Australia
(D) Italy
(E) Britain

16. Which of the following is the abbreviated name of the Organi zation/Agency working in the field of Space Research ?

(A) ISBN
(B) ISRO
(C) INTELSET
(D) INTACH
(E) None of these

17. ‘Handshaking’ in Networking parlance means
(A) connecting computers to a hub
(B) distributed Networks
(C) having same operating system on different computers
(D) sending e-mail
(E) None of these

18. VAT stands for

(A) Value And Tax
(B) Value Added Tax
(C) Virtual Action Tasks
(D) Virtual Assessment Tech-nique
(E) None of these

19. Alzheimer’sdiseaseistheailment of which of the following organs /parts of the human body ?

(A) Kidney
(B) Heart
(C) Liver
(D) Stomach
(E) Brain

20. Global warming is a matter of concern amongst the nations these days. Which of the follo-wing countries is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the World ?
(A) U.S.A.
(B) China
(C) India
(D) Britain
(E) None of these

21. Which of the following books has been written by Bill Gates ?
(A) Microsoft Secrets
(B) The Road Ahead
(C) The Elephant Paradigm
(D) e-commerce
(E) None of these

22. Which of the following is the name of the social network service run by the Google on the internet ?
(A) Online Space
(B) Orkut
(C) Net-Space
(D) Wikipedia
(E) None of these

23. Which of the following states is a relatively new addition ?
(A) Goa
(B) Delhi
(C) Uttarakhand
(D) Himachal Pradesh
(E) Bihar

24. DOT stands for___________

(A) Disc Operating Therapy
(B) Department of Telephones
(C) Directorate of Technology
(D) Damage on Time
(E) None of these


25. Which of the following States/ parts of India is completely land locked having no contact with sea ?

(A) Karnataka
(B) Orissa
(C) Maharashtra
(D) North-East
(E) None of these

26. TRAI regulates the functioning of which of the following servi-ces ?
(A) Telecom (B) Trade
(C) Port (D) Transport
(E) None of these

27. At present for the ATMs in India, the most commonly used net-work communication mode is__________

(A) Very Small Aperture Termi-nal (VSAT)
(B) General Packet Radio Ser-vice (GPRS)
(C) Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
(D) Dial-in Connection
(E) None of these

28. Which of the following is not a foreign bank operating in India ?
(A) DBS Bank Ltd.
(B) Sonali Bank
(C) J. P. Morgan Chase Bank
(D) Shinhan Bank
(E) All are Foreign Banks

29. Who is the author of the book ‘Future Shock’ ?
(A) Alvin Toffler
(B) Tom Peters
(C) Napoleon Hill
(D) Kenneth Blanchard
(E) None of these

30. Apex fares are________
(A) more than the normal fare
(B) less than the normal fare
(C) offered only to corporate clients
(D) applicable to late night flights only
(E) applicable to international flights only

31. Who amongst the following is the Director of the film ‘Water’ which was in news ?
(A) Vidhu Vinod Chopra
(B) Mrinal Sen
(C) Gulzar
(D) Mahesh Bhatt
(E) None of these

32. The 10th plan period is upto_______

(A) 2007 (B) 2008
(C) 2009 (D) 2010
(E) None of these

33. OPEC is a group of countries which are_______
(A) exporting oil
(B) producting cotton
(C) rich and developed
(D) developing and poor
(E) nuclear powers

34. Intel Company mainly pro-duces______
(A) Hard disks
(B) VCDs
(C) Monitors
(D) Software
(E) None of these

34. Intel Company mainly pro-duces_____

(A) Hard disks
(B) VCDs
(C) Monitors
(D) Software
(E) None of these

35. Who amongst the following is the M.D./Chairman of one of the major Steel Companies ?

(A) Shri L. N. Mittal
(B) Shri K. K. Birla
(C) Shri Vijaypat Singhania
(D) Shri Mukesh Ambani
(E) Shri Anil Agarwal

36. Who is the President of Nass-com?
(A) Kiran Karnik
(B) Narayana Murthy
(C) Pramod Desai
(D) Devang Mehta
(E) None of these

37. Which of the following awards is not given for excellence in the field of literature ?
(A) Booker Prize
(B) Nobel Prize
(C) Pulitzer Price
(D) Arjun Award
(E) Bharatiya Gnanpith Award

38. ‘Singur’ which was in news is a place in_____________

(A) Orissa
(B) West Bengal
(C) Jharkhand
(D) Bihar
(E) Maharashtra

39. Who amongst the following is the author of the book series named as ‘Harry Potter’ ?
(A) J. K. Rowling
(B) Lindsay Lohan
(C) Julia Roberts
(D) Sandra Bullock
(E) None of these

40. Which of the following Satellites recentlydedicatedtonation helps Direct to Home Television Ser-vice in India ?
(A) Matsat
(B) Edusat
(C) Insat–4b
(D) Insat–IB
(E) None of these

41. Many a times we read some news items about the ‘West Bank’. ‘West Bank’ is situated at the western side of the river__________

(A) Mississippi
(B) Amazon
(C) Nile
(D) Jordan
(E) None of these

42. Which of the following pheno-menon is considered responsible for ‘Global Warming’ ?
(A) Greenhouse Gas Effect
(B) Fox Fire
(C) Dry Farming
(D) Radioactivity
(E) None of these

43. Which of the following instru-ments is not issued by a bank ?
(A) Demand Draft
(B) Pay Order
(C) Debit Card
(D) Credit Card
(E) National Saving Certificate

44. Name of Jyoti Randhawa is asso-ciated with which of thecfollo-wing games ?
(A) Golf
(B) Badminton
(C) Hockey
(D) Chess
(E) None of these

45. Which of the following Software Companies recently launched its education portal ‘Unlimited Potential’ in India ?
(A) Microsoft (B) Infosys
(C) Wipro (D) TCS
(E) None of these

46. Polly Umrigar who died was a well known___________
(A) Cricketer
(B) Tennis Player
(C) Golfer
(D) Chess Player
(E) Hockey Player

47. In India Census is done after a gap of every____________
(A) Five years
(B) Seven years
(C) Eight years
(D) Ten years
(E) Fifteen years

48. Prof. Muhammad Yunus the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2006 is the exponent of which of the following concepts in the field of banking ?
(A) Core Banking
(B) Micro Credit
(C) Retail Banking
(D) Real Time Gross Settlement
(E) Internet Banking

49. Who amongst the following was India’s official candidate for the post of UNO’s Secretary Gene- ral ?
(A) Mr. Shyam Saran
(B) Dr. C. Rangarajan
(C) Mr. Shashi Tharoor
(D) Mr. Vijay Nambiar
(E) None of these

50. Mr. Gordon Brown has taken over as the Prime Minister of_______
(A) Italy
(B) Canada
(C) France
(D) South Africa
(E) Britain

Answers with Explanation:-
1. (C) 2. (C) 3. (E) 4. (A) 5. (B) 6. (E) 7. (B) 8. (A) 9. (C) 10. (E) 11. (E) 12. (B) 13. (C) 14. (C) 15. (E) 16. (B) 17. (A) 18. (B) 19. (E) 20. (B) 21. (B) 22. (B) 23. (C) 24. (E) 25. (D) 26. (A) 27. (A) 28. (E) 29. (A) . 30. (B) 31. (E) 32. (A) 33. (A) 34. (E) 35. (A) 36. (A) 37. (D) 38. (b) 39. (a) 40. (c) 41. (d) 42. (a) 43. (e) 44. (a) 45. (a) 46. (a) 47. (D) 48. (b) 49. (C) 50. (E)

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Some amazing facts about India, feel proud to be Indian


  • India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
  • India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
  • India is the world's largest democracy. Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called "the ancient city" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E,
    and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
  • India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
  • The World's first university was established in Takshashila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
  • The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
  • Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages.
  • Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
  • Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
  • Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
  • Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century.
  • Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth.
  • The art of Navigation was bornin the river Sindhu 6000 years ago.
  • The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
  • Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
  • The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
  • Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India.
  • Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.
  • The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period.
  • Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10**12(10 to the power of 12).
  • IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
  • The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
  • According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake called Sudarshana was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta Maurya's time.
  • Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
  • Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery.
  • Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used.
  • Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.
  • When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley
    Civilization).
  • The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
  • The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
  • India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.
  • India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the World.
  • India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.
  • India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously.
  • India is the first democratic country to give the right to vote to all its citizens above 18 years. Till then the developed countries like USA etc allowed only the Riches, higher officials to vote.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

FAMOUS BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Books Authors
A Bend in the river V.S. Naipaul
A Brush with Life Satish Gujral
A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib S.S. Kohli
A Foreign Policy for India I.K. Gujral
A Fortune Teller Told Me Tiziano Terzani
A Gender Lens on Social Psychology Judith A Howard and Jocelyn A.Hollander
A General and His Army Georgy Vladimov
A Himalayan Love Story Namita Gokhale
A Last Leap South Vladimir Zhirinovsky
A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History P.N. Chopra
A Peep into the Past Vasant Navrekar
A Possible India Partha Chatterjee
A Psychoanalysis of the Prophets Abdulla Kamal
A Reveolutionary Life Laxmi Sehgal
A Secular Agenda Arun Shourie
A Simple Path Lucinda Vardey
A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
A Tale of Two Gardens Octavio Paz
A Tribute to People’s Princess: Diana Peter Donelli
A Tryst With Destiny Stanley Wolfer
Abbot Walter Scott
Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner
Absalom and Achitophel John Dryden
Acoession to Extinction D.R. Mankekar
Across Borders, Fifty-years of India’s Foreign Policy J.N. Dixit
Adam Bede George Eliot
Adhe Adhure Mohan Rakesh
Adonis P.B. Shelley
Adrain Mole-The Wilderness Years Sue Townsend
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Adventures of Sally P.G. Wodehouse
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Adversary in the House lrving Stone
Advice and Consent Allen Drury
Aeneid Virgil
Affairs C.P.Snow
Affluent Society J.K.Galbraith
Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx and Mujahid R.H. Magnus & Eden Naby
Africa’s Challenge to America Chester Bowles
After All These Years Susan Issacs
After the Dark Night S.M. Ali
Against the Grain Boris Yeltsin
Age of Reason Jean Paul Sartre
Agni Pariksha Acharya Tulsi
Agni Veena Kazi Nazrul Islam
Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone
Ain-i-Akbari Abul Fazal
Airport Arthur Hailey
Ajatshatru Jai Shankar Prasad
Akbarnama Abul Fazal
Alaska Unbound James Michener
Alchemist Ben Johnson
Alexander Quartet Lawrence Durrel
Alexander the Great John Gunther
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Alien Nation Peter Brimelow
All for Love John Dryden
All is Well that Ends Well William Shakespeare
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren
All the President’s Men Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
All things Bright and Beautiful James Herroit
All Under Heaven Pearl S.Buck
Along the Road Aldous Huxley
Altered States Anita Brookner
Amar Kosh Amar Singh
Ambassador’s Journal J.K. Galbraith
Ambassador’s Report Chester Bowles
Amelia Henry Fielding
American Capitalism J.K. Galbraith
An American Dilemma Gunnar Myrdal
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
An Apology for Idlers Robert Louis Stevenson
An Autobiography Jawaharlal Nehru
An Eye to China David Selbourne
An idealist View of Life Dr.S. Radhakrishnan
Anandmath Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Anatomy of a Flawed inheritance J.N. Dixit
Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer
Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And Quiet Flows the Don Mikhali Sholokhov
And Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
Androcles and the Lion George Bernard Shaw
Angry Letters Willem Doevenduin
Anguish of Deprived Lakshmidhar Mishra
Animal Farm George Orwell
Anna Karenina Count Leo Tolstoy
Another Life Derek Walcott
Answer to History Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Antic Hay Aldous Huxley
Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare
Ape and Essence Aldous Huxley
Apple Cart George Bernad Shaw
Arabian Nights Sir Richard Burton
Area of Darkness V.S. Naipaul
Arion and the Dolphin Vikram Seth
Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules verne
Arrangement Elia Kazan
Arrival and Departure Arthur Koestler
Arrow in the Blue Arthur Koestler
Arrow of Good Joseph Conrad
Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis
Arthashastra Kautilya
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
As You Like It William Shakespeare
Ascent of the Everest Sir John Hunt
Ashtadhyayi Panini
Asia and Western Dominance K.M. Panikkar
Asian Drama Gunnar Myrdal
Aspects of the Novel E.M. Forster
Assassination of a Prime Minister S.Anandram
Assignment Colombo J.N. Dixit
Assignment India Christopher Thomas
Athenian Constitution Aristotle
Atoms of Hope Mohan Sundara Rajan
August 1914 Alexander Solzhenitsyn
August Coup Mikhali S. Gorbachev
Author’s Farce Henry Fielding
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Autumn Leaves O.Pulla Reddi
Avanti Sundari Dandin
Babbit Sinclair Lewis
Baburnama Babur
Baby and Child Penelope Leach
Back to Methuselah G.B. Shaw
Backward Place Ruth Prawer Jhabwala
Bandicoot Run Manohar Malgonkar
Bang-i-Dara Mohammad lqbal
Bangla Desh-The Unifinished Revolution Lawrence Lifschultz
Banyan Tree Hugh Tinker
Beach Boy Ardesher Vakil
Beast and Man Murry Midgley
Beating the Street Peter Lynch
Beginning of the Beginning Acharya Rajneesh
Beloved Toni Morrison
Ben Hur Lewis Wallace
Bend in the Ganges Manohar Malgonkar
Bermuda Triangle Charles Berlitz
Berry Patches Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Best and the Brightest David Halberstan
Betrayal of Pearl Harbour James Rusbridger and Eric Nave
Between Hope and History Bill Clinton
Between Hope and History Bill Clinton
Between the Lines Kuldip Nayar
Bewildered India-Identity, Pluralism, Discord Rasheedud-din Khan
Beyond Boundaries: A Memoire Swaraj Paul
Beyond the Horizon Eugene O’Neill
Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self Sisir Kumar Ghose
Beyond Peace Richard Nixon
Bhagwat Gita Veda Vyas
Bharal Aur Europe Nirmal Verma
Bharat Bharati Maithili Sharan Gupta
Bharaitya Parampara Ke Mool Swar Govind Chandra Pande
Big Fisherman Lloyd C. Douglas
Big Money P.G. Wodehouse
Bill the Conqueror P.G. Wodehouse
Billy Albert French
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor coleridge
Birds and Beasts Mark Twain
Birth and Death of The Sun George Gamow
Birth and Evolution of the soul Annie Besant
Birth of Europe Robert, S. Lopez
Bisarjan R.N. Tagore
Bitter Sweet Noel Coward
Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson
Black Diaspora Ronald Segal
Black Holes and Baby Universes Stephen Hawking
Black Sheep Honore de Balzac
Black Tulip Alexander Dumas
Bleak House Charles Dickens
Blind Ambitions John Dean
Blind Beauty Boris Pasternak
Blind Men of Hindoostan-indo-Pak Nuclear War Gen. Krishnaswamy Sundarji
Bliss was it in that Dawn Minoo Masani
Bloodline Sidney Sheldon
Blood Sport James Stewart
Blue Bird Maurice Macterlink
Bofors: The Ambassador’s Evidence B.M. Oza
Bone People Keri Hulme
Book of the Sword Sir Richard Burton
Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Born Free Joy Adamson
Bostaan Sheikh Saadi
Bread, Beauty and Revolution Khwaja Ahmed Abbas
Breaking the Silence Anees Jung
Breakthrough Gen.Moshe Dayan
Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories Khushwant Singh
Bridge’s Book of Beauty Mulk Raj Anand
Bridges of Madison Country R.J. Waller
Brif History of Time Stephen Hawking
Brishbikkha Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Britain’s True History Prem Bhatia
Broken Wings Sarojini Naidu
Brothers Karamazhov Fyodor Dostoevski
Bubble Mulk Raj Anand
Buddha Charitam Ashvaghosha
Bunch of Old Letters Jawaharlal Nehru
Bureaucrazy M.K. Kaw
Butterfield 8 John O’Hara
By God’s Decree Kapil Dev
By Love Possessed James Gould Cozzens
Byzantium W.B. Yeats
Caesar and Cleopatra G.B. Shaw
Call the Briefing Martin Fitzwater
Cancer Ward Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Canterbury Tales G.Chaucer
Canvass of Life Sheila Gujral
Caravans James A. Michener
Cardinal Henry M. Robinson
Castle Franz Kafka
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Centennial James Michener
Chance Joseph Conrad
Chandalika Rabindranath Tagore
Chemmeen Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov
Chidambara Sumitranandan Pant
Chikaveera Rajendra Masti Venkatesh lyengar
Child Who Never Grew Pearl S. Buck
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage George Byron
Childhood Maxim Gorky
Children of Gabelawi Naquib Mahfouz
Children of the Sun Maxim Gorky
China Passage J.K. Galbraith
China-Past and Present Pearl S. Buck
China’s Watergate Leo Goodstadt
Chinese Betrayal B.N. Mullick
Chitra Rabindranath Tagore
Choma’s Drum K. Shivaram Karanath
Christabel Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christmas Tales Charles Dickens
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chithirappaavai P.V. Akilandam
City of Joy Dominique Lapierre
City of Saints Sir Richard Burton
Class Erich Segal
Climate of Treason Andrew Boyle
Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Clown Heinrich Boll
Cocktail Party T.S. Eliot
Colonel Sun Kingsley Amis
Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare
Common Sense Thomas Paine
Communist Manifesto Karl Marx
Confessions J.J.Rousseau
Confessions of a Lover Mulk Raj Anand
Comus John Milton
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit S.T. Coleridge
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincy
Confidential Clerk T.S. Eliot
Confrontation with Pakistan Gen. B.M. Kaul
Conquest of Happiness Bertrand Russell
Conquest of Self Mahatma Gandhi
Conservationist Nadine Gordimer
Continent of Circle Nirad C.Chaudhuri
Coolie Mulk Raj Anand
Count of Monte Cristo Alexander Dumas
Coup John Updike
Court Dancer Rabindranath Tagore
Coverly Papers Joseph Addison
Cranford Mrs. Gaskell
Creation Gore Vidal
Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore
Crescent Over Kashmir Anil Maheshwari
Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crisis in India Ronald Segal
Crisis into Chaos E.M.S. Namboodiripad
Critical Mass William E. Burrows
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant
Crossing in River Caryl Phillips
Crossing the Sacred Line-Women’s
Search for Political Power
Abhilasha & Sabina Kidwai
Crossing the Threshold of Hope Pope John Paul II
Crown and the Loincloth Chaman Nahal
Crown of Wild Olive John Ruskin
Cry, My Beloved Country Alan Patan
Cuckold Kiran Nagar Kar
Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold
Culture in the Vanity Bag Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Curtain Raisers K. Natwar Singh
Damsel in Distress P.G. Wodehouse
Dancing with the Devil Rod Barker
Dangerous Plaqce Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Dangerous Summer Emest Hemingway
Dangling Man Saul Bellow
Daniel Deronda Geroge Eliot
Dark Room R.K. Narayan
Dark Debts Karen Hall
Dark Home Coming Eric Lustbader
Dark Side of Camelot Seymour Hersh
Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler
Das Kapital Karl Marx
Dashkumar Charitam Dandi
Daughter of the East Benazir Bhutto
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Day in Shadow Nayantara Sehgal
Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth
Days of Grace Arthur Ashe & Arnold Rampersad
Days of his Grace Eyvind Johnson
Days of My Yers H.P. Nanda
De Profundis Oscar Wilde
Dean’s December Saul Bellow
Death and After Annie Besant
Death Be Not Proud John Gunther
Death in the Castle Pearl S. Buck
Death in Venice Thomas Mann
Death of a City Amrita Pritam
Death of a Patriot R.E. Harrington
Death on the Nile Agatha Christie
Death of a President William Manchester
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
Death-The Supreme Friend Kakasaheb Kalelkar
Death Under sail C.P. Snow
Debacle Emile Zola
Decameron Giovannie Boccaccio
Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi D.R. Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon
Decline of the West O’ Spengler
Democracy Means Bread and Freedom Piloo Mody
Democracy Redeemed V.K. Narsimhan
Descent of Man Charles Darwin
Deserted Village Oliver Goldsmith
Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy
Detective Arthur Hailey
Devadas Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
Dharmashastra Manu
Dialogue with Death Arthur Koestler
Diana-Her Time Story in Her Own Words Andrew Martin
Diana-Princess of Wales : A Tribute Tim Graham
Diana-The Story So Far Julia Donelli
Diana-The True Story Andrew Morton
Diana Versus Charles James Whitaker
Die Blendung Elias Canetti
Dilemma of Our Time Harold Joseph Laski
Diplomacy Henry Kissinger
Diplomacy and Disillustion George Urbans
Diplomacy in Peace and War J.N. Kaul
Disappearing Acts Terry McMillan
Discovery of India Jawaharlal Nehru
Distant Drums Manohar Malgonkar
Distant Neighbours Kuldip Nayar
Divine Comedy A.Dante
Divine Life Swami Sivananda
Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe
Doctor’s Dilemma G.B.Shaw
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevensan
Dr. Zhivago Boris Pasternak
Doll’s House lbsen
Dolly-The Birth of a Clone Jina Kolata
Don Juan George Byron
Don Quixote Cervantes
Don’t Laugh-We are Police Bishan Lal Vohra
Double Betrayal Paula R. Newburg
Double Helix J.D. Watson
Double Tongue William Golding
Double Teeth U.B. Sinclair
Drogon’s Seed Pearl S. Buck
Dream in Hawaii Bhabani Bhattacharya
Dram of Fair to Middling Women Samuel Beckett
Dreams, Roses and Fire Eyvind Johnson
Drunkard Emile Zola
Durgesh Nandini Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Dynamics of Social Change Chandra Shekhar
Earth Emile Zola
Earth in the Balance: Forging a New
Common Purpose
Al Gore
Earth Mother Pupul Jayakar
East of Eden B.N. Mullick
East West Salman Rushdie
East Wind Pearl S. Buck
Economic Planning of India Ashok Mehta
Economics of Peace and Laughter John K. Galbraith
Economics of the Third World S.K. Ray
Education of Public Man Hubert Humphrey
Edwina and Nehru Catherine Clement
Egmont J.W. Von Goethe
Eight Lives Rajmohan Gandhi
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray
Emile J.J. Rousseau
Eminent Churchillians Andrew Roberts
Emma Jane Austen
Empire of the Soul: Some Journeys in India Paul William Roberts
Ends and Means Aldous Huxley
End of a Beautiful Era Joseph Brodsky
End of an Era C.S. Pandit
End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama
End of the Chapter John Forsyte
Enemies Maxim Gorky
English August Upamanyu Chatterjee
Envoy to Nehru Escott Reid
Erewhon Samuel Butler
Escape John Forsyte
Eassay on Life Samuel Butler
Essays for Poor to the Rich John Kenneth Galbraith
Essays in Criticism Matthew Arnold
Essays On Gita Aurobindo Ghosh
Essays of Elia Charles Lamb
Estate Issac Bashevis Singer
Eternal Himalayas Major H.P.S.Ahluwalia
Eternal India Indira Gandhi
Eternity Anwar Shaikh
Ethics Aristotle
Europa Time Parks
Eugenie Grandet Honore de Balzac
Everlasting Man G.K. Chesterton
Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer
Exile and the Kingdom Albert Camus
Expanding Universe Arthur Stanley Eddington
Eye of the Storm Patrick White
Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley
Faces to Everest Maj. H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Facts are Facts Khan Abdul Wali Khan
Fairie Queene Edmund Spencer
Faith & Fire: A Way Within Madhu Tandon
Fall of a Sparrow Salim Ali
Family Moskat Issac Bashevis Singer
Family Reunion T.S.Eliot
Famished Road Ben Okri
Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
Far Pavilions M.M.Kaye
Faraway Music Svetlana Allilueva
Farewell to the Trumpets James Morris
Farewell to a Ghost Manoj Das
Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
Farm House George Orwell
Fasana-i-Azad Ratan Nath Sarkar
Fathers and Sons lvan Turgenev
Faust J.W. Von Goethe
Faustus Chirstopher Marlow
Fidelio L.Beethoven
Fiesta Ernest Hemingway
Fifth Column Ernest Hemingway
Fifth Horseman Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Final Days Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Final Passage Caryl Phillips
Finding a Voice-Asian Women in Britain Amrit Wilson
Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
Fire Next Time James Baldwin
Fire Under the Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner Palden Gyatso
First Circle Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Flags in the Dust William Faulkner
Flames from the Ashes P.D. Tandon
Flounder Gunder Grass
Follywood Flashback Bunny Reuben
Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India V.K.R.V. Rao
For the President’s Eyes Only Christopher Andrew
For Whom the Bell Tolls Emest Hemingway
Forbidden Sea Tara Ali Baig
Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy
Fortynine Days Amrita Pritam
Franklin’s Tale Geoffrey Chaucer
Fraternity John Forsyte
Free Man’s Worship Bertrand Russell
Freedom at Midnight Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
French Revolution Thomas Carlyle
Freedom Behind Bars Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah
Freedom from Fear Aung San Suu Kyi
French Leave P.G. Wodehouse
Friend Samuel Tayelor Coleridge
Friends and Foes Sheikh Mujibur Rehman
Friends, Not Masters Ayub Khan
From Hero to Eternity James Jones
From india to America S.Chandrashekhar
From Raj to Rajiv Mark Tully and Zaheer Masani
From Rajpath to Lokpath Vijaya Raja Scindia
Frozen Assets P.G. Wodehouse
Full Moon P.G.Wodehouse
Future of NPT Savita Pande
Gambler Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ganadevata Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
Gandhi and Stalin Louis Fisher
Gardener Rabindra Nath Tagore
Garrick Year Margaret Drabble
Gathering Storm Winston Churchill
Geeta Govind Jaya Dev
Ghasiram Kotwal Vijay Tendulkar
Ghosts in the Machine Arthur Koestler
Girl in Blue P.G. Wodehouse
Girl On the Boat P.G. Wodehouse
Gita Rahasya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Gitanjali Rabindra Nath Tagore
Gladiators Arthur Koestler
Glimpses of Indian Ocean Z.A. Quasim
Glimpses of World History Jawaharlal Nehru
Go Down Moses William Faulkner
Goa Asif Currimbhoy
God and the Bible Mattew Arnold
Godan Munshi Prem Chand
Godfather Mario Puzo
Godrej: A Hundred Years B.K. Karanjia
Gold Bat P.G. Wodehouse
Golden Borough James Frazer
Golden Gate Vikram Seth
Golden Threshold Sarojini Naidu
Gone Away Dom Moraes
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Good Earth Pearl S.Buck
Goodbye, Mr Chips James Hilton
Gora Rabindra Nath Tagore
Grace Notes Bernard Mac Lavarto
Grammar of Politics Harold Joseph Laski
Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Grapes and the Wind Pablo Neruda
Great Challenge Louis Fischer
Great Depression of 1990 Ravi Batra
Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great lllusion Norman Angell
Great Tragedy Z.A. Bhutto
Grey Eminence Aldous Huxley
Grub Street Henry Fielding
Guide R.K. Narayan
Guide for the Perplexed E.F. Schumacher
Gul-e-Naghma Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri
Gulag Archipelago Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Gulistan Boston Sheikh Saadi
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
Gulzari Lal Nanda: A Peep
in the Service of the People
Promilla Kalhan
Gurusagaram O.V. Vijayan
Gypsy(poem) Pushkin
Hamlet William Shakespeare
Hard Times Charles Dickens
Harsha Charita Bana Bhatt
Hamsters C.P. Snow
Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
Happy Death Albert Camus
Harlot High and Low Honore de Balzac
Harvest Majula Padmanabhan
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Heavem Has No Favourites Eric Maria Remarque
Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabwala
Heavy Weather P.G. Wodehouse
Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow
Heritage Anthony West
Hero of Our Times Richard Hough
Heroes and Hero worship Thomas Carlyle
Henry Esmond Thackeray
Heir Apparent Dr. Karan Singh
Higher than Hope Fatima Meer
Himalayan Blunder Brig J.P. Dalvi
Hindu View of Life Dr. S.Radhakrishnan
History of Hindu Chemistry Sir.P.C. Ray
Hitopadesh R.K.Narayan
Hindi Sahitya Aur Samvedna Ka Vikas R.S. Chaturvedi
Hind Swaraj M.K.Gandhi
Hindu Civilisation J.M. Barrie
Hinduism Nirad C.Choudhury
His Excellency Emile Zola
History of the English Speaking Peoples Sir Winston Churchil
Home Comings C.P. Snow
Honest Thief and Other Stories Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hornet’s Nest Patricia Cornwell
Hot Water P.G. Wodehouse
Hound of the Baskervillese Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul
House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoevsky
House of Spirits Isabel Allende
House Divided Pearl S. Buck
How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman
Human Factor Graham Greene
Human Knowledge Bertrand Russell
Humboldt’s Gift Saul Bellow
Humour Ben Johnson
Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo
Hungry Stones Rabindra Nath Tagore
I am not an Island K.A Abbas
I Dare Parmesh Dangwal
I follow the Mahatma K.M. Munshi
Idylls of the King Tennyson
I Muse; Therefore I am V.N.Narayanan
Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
Idols Sunil Gavaskar
If I am Assassinated Z.A. Bhutto
Imperial Woman Pearl S. Buck
Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
In Afghanistan’s Shadow Salig S. Harrison
In Confidence Anatolyu Dobrynin
In Evil Hour Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In Light of India Octavio Paz
In Retrospect-The Tragedy
and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert S. McNamara
In Search of Gandhi Richard Attenborough
In Search of Identity Anwar el-Sadat
In the Afternoon of Time Dr.Rupert Snell
In the Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
In the Light of the Black Sun Rohit Manchanda
In the Shadow of Pines Mandeep Rai
India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam & Dr. Y.S. Rajan
India-A Wounded Civilisation V.S. Naipaul
India discovered John Keay
India-Facing the Twenty-First Century Barbara Crossette
India-From Curzon to Nehru and After Durga Dass
India-From Midnight to the Millennium Shashi Tharoor
India-Independence Festival (1947-1997) Raghu Rai
India in Transition PRof.Jagdish Bhagwati
India is for Sale Chitra Subramaniam
India of Our Dreams M.V. Kamath
India Remembered Percival & Margaret Spear
India Today Rajni Palme Dutt
India We Left Hymphry Trevelyan
Indian Home Rule M.K. Gandhi
Indian Philosophy Dr.S.Radhakrishnan
India’s China War Neville Maxwell
India’s Culture the State the Arts & Beyond B.P. Singh
India’s Economic Crisis Dr. Bimal Jalan
India’s Economic Reforms and Development
Essay’s for Manmohan Singh
I.J.Ahluwalia & I.M.D. Little
India’s Rise to Power in the Twentieth
Century & Beyond
Sandy Gordon
Indian Arms Bazaar Maj-Gen, Pratap Narain
Indian Mansions Sarah Tiloston
India Changes Taya Zinkin
India Divided Rajendra Prasad
India Wins Freedom Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Indian Muslims Prof. Mohd.Mujeeb
India, the Critial Years Kuldip Nayar
Indo-Pakistan Conflict Russen Brines
Indica Megasthenes
Indira Gandhi’s Emergence and Style Nayantara Sehgal
Indira’s India S.Nihal Singh
Inferno Alighieri Dante
Inner Circle Jonathan First
Innocence of Father Brown G.K.Chesterton
Inside the CBI Joginder Singh
Inside the Third Reich Albert Spencer
Insider P.V. Narasimha Rao
In Memoriam Tennyson
Inside Asia John Gunther
Inside Europe John Gunther
Inside Africa John Gun ther
Insulted and the injured Fyodor Dostoevsky
Intelligence Services Dr. Bhashyam Kasturi
Interpreters Wole Soyinka
Intimacy Jean Paul Sartre
Intruder in the Dust William Faulkner
Invisible Man H.G. Wells
Iron in the Soul Jean Paul Sartre
Ironhand J.W. Von Goethe
Is Paris Burning Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Isabella John Keats
Islamic Bomb Stev Weissman & Herbert Krousney
Island inthe Streams Ernest Hemingway
It is Always Possible Kiran Bedi
Ivanov Anton Chekhov
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
Jack and Jackle-Portrait of an American Marriage Chirstopher Anderson
Jai Somnath K.M. Munshi
Jaguar Smile Salman Rushdie
Jajar, Churashir Maa Mahashweta Devi
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Jankijeevanam Prof. Rajendra Mishra
Jawaharlal Nehru-A Communicator
& Democratic Leader
A.K. Damodran
Jawaharlal Nehru, Rebel and Statesman B.R. Nanda
Jazz Toni Morrison
Jean Christopher Romain Rolland
Jesus Rediscovered Malcolm Muggeridge
Jewel Danielle Steel
Jhoota Sach Yashpal
Jobs for Millions V.V. Giri
Joke Milan Kundra
Judge’s Miscellany M. Hidayatullah
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
Junglee Girl Ginu Kamani
Kadambari Bana Bhatt
Kamadhenu Kubernath Ray
Kamasutra Vatsyayan
Kagaz Te Kanwas Amrita Pritam
Kamayani Jai Shankar Pandit
Kaleidoscope of India Tomoji Muto
Kali Aandhi Kamleshwar
Kanthapura Raja Rao
Kanyadaan Vijay Tendulkar
Kapal Kundala Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Kashmir-A Tale of Shame Hari Jaisingh
Kashmir-Behind the Vale M.J.Akbar
Kashmir Diary: Psychology of Militancy Gen.Arjun Ray
Kashmir-The Wounded Valley Ajit Bhattacharjee
Kashmir in the Crossfire Victoria Shaffield
Kashmir A Tragedy of Errors Tavleen Singh
Katghare Main Ram Sharan Joshi
Kayakalp Munshi Prem Chand
Kayar Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Keepers of the Keys Milan Kundera
Kenilworth Sir Walter Scott
Killer Angels Michael Shaara
Kissinger Years T.N. Kaul
Kidnapped R.L. Stevenson
King of Dark Chamber Rabindra Nath Tagore
Kiratarjuniya Bharavi
Kim Rudyard Kipling
King Lear Shakespeare
Kipps H.G.Wells
Kitni Navon Main Kitni Bar S.H.Vatsyayan
Koraner Nari Taslima Nasreen
Kore Kagaz Amrita Pritam
Kubla Khan S.T. Coleridge
Kulliyat Ghalib
Kumar Sambhava Kalidas
La Divine Comedia A. Dante
La Peste Albert Camus
Lady of the Lake Sir Walter Scott
Lady with the Lapdog Anton Chekhov
Lady Chatterly’s Lover D.H.Lawrence
Lajja Taslima Nasreen
Lal Bahadur Shastri C.P. Srivastava
Last Analysis Saul Bellow
Last Burden Upamanyu, Chatterjee
Last Maharaja Jean Louis Nou & Jacques Pouchepadass
Last Orders Graham Swift
Last Days of Pompeii Edward George Lytton
Last Phase Pyare Lal
Last Things C.P. Snow
Law, Lawyers & Judges H.R. Bhardwaj
Laws Versus Justice V.R. Krishna lyer
Leaders Richard Nixon
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
Lead Kindly Light Cardinal Newman
Le Contract Social (The Social Contract) J.J. Rousseau
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Legacy of a Divided Nation Prof. Mushirul Hasan
Latter from Peking Peral S. Buck
Letters From the Field Margaret Mead
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes
Liberty or Death Patrick French
Life and Death of Mr. Badman John Bunyan
Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling
Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
Life Divine Aurobindo Ghosh
Life is Elsewhere Milan Kundera
Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell
Lines of Fate Mark Kharitonov
Lipika Rabindranath Tagore
Living Room Graham Greene
Long Shadow inside Stalin’s Family Svetlana Allilyuyeva
Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela
Look Back in Anger John Osborne
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Files William Golding
Lost Child Mulk Raj Anand
Lost Honour John Dean
Lost lllusion Honore de Balzac
Lotus Eaters A.Tennyson
Love and Longing in Bombay Vikram Chandra
Love in A Blue Time Hanif Khureshi
Lolita V.Nabokov
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Allan Sillitoe
Long Day’s Journey into Night Eugene O’Neill
Love, Truth and A Little Malice Khushwant Singh
Lycidas John Milton
Macbeth William Shakespeare
Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
Mahabharata Vyasa
Malati Madhav Bhavabhuti
Magic Fishbone Charles Dickens
Magnificent Maharaja K.Natwar Singh
Mahatma Gandhi Girija Kumar Mathur
Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw
Making of a Midsummer Night’s Dream David Selbourne
Malavikagnimitra Kalidas
Main Street Sinclair Lewis
Man, The Unknown Lewis Carroll
Man and Superman G.B. Shaw
Man for Moscow G.Lynne
Man of Property John Galsworthy
Man, Beast and Virtue Luigi Pirandello
Man eaters of Kumaon Jim Corbett
Marriage and Morals Bertrand Russell
Managing of the Future Peter, F. Drucker
Mama Terry McMillan
Man for All Seasons Robert Bolt
Man of Destiny George Bernard Shaw
Mandarin Simon de Beauvoir
Mankind and Mother Earth Arnold Toynbee
Mansfield Park Jane Austen
Manviya Sanskriti Ke Rachnatmak Aayam Prof. Raghuvansh
Many Worlds K.P.S. Menon
Masters C.P. Snow
Mati Matal Gopinath Mohanty
Maurice E.M. Forster
Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
Meghdoot Kalidas
Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler
Memoris of the Second World War Churchill
Memoris of a Bystander: Life in Diplomacy lqbal Akhund
Momories of Hope Charles de Gaulle
Men Who Kepl the Secrets Thomas Powers
Men Who Killed Gandhi Manohar Malgonkar
Meri Rehen Meri Manzil Krishna Puri
Middle March George Eliot
Middle Ground Margaret Drabble
Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare
Mill on the Floss George Eliot
Million Mutinies Now V.S. Naipaul
Mirror of the Sea Joseph Conrad
Miser Moliere
Missed Oppertunites: Indo-Pak War 1965 Maj-Gen, Lakshman Singh
Mistaken identity Nayantara Sehgal
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Modern Painters John Ruskin
Mother India Katherine Mayo
Mod Classics Joseph Conrad
Modern South Asia: History, Culture,
Political Economy
Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal
Modernity Morality And The Mahatma Madhuri Santhanam Sondhi
Mondays on Dark Night of Moon Kirin Narayan
Mookhajjiva Kanasugalu K. Shivram Karanth
Moon and Six Pence W. Somerset Maugham
Moonlight Sonata L.Beethoven
Moonwalk Michael Jackson
Moor’s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie
Mother Maxim Gorky
Mountbatten and Independent India Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Mountbatten and the Partition of India Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Mrinalini Bankim Chandra Charrerjee
Mritunjaya Shivaji Sawant
Mrs. De Winter Susah Hill
Mrs. Gandhi’s Second Reign Arun Shourie
Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare
Mudra rakshasa Vishakhadatta
Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot
Mughal Maharajas And The Mahatma K.R.N. Swami
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie
Murky Business Honore de Balzac
Murder of Aziz Khan Zulfikar Ghose
Muslim Law and the Constitution A.M. Bhattacharjea
My Days R.K. Narayan
My Early Life M.K. Gandhi
My Experiment With Truth M.K. Gandhi
My Life and Times V.V.Giri
My Own Boswell M.Hidayatullah
My Father, Deng Xiaoping Xiao Rong
My India S. Nihal Singh
My Music, My Love Ravi Shankar
My Presidential Years Ramaswamy Venkataraman
My Truth Indira Gandhi
Mysterious Universe James Jeans
My Several Worlds Pearl S. Buck
My Son’s Father Dom Moraes
My South Block Years J.N. Dixit
My Struggles E.K. Nayanar
Myths of sisyphus Albert Camus
My Prison Diary J.P Narayan
Naari Humayun Azad
Nana Emile Zola
Naganandan Harsha Vardhana
Naku Thanthi D.R. Bendre
Nai Duniya Ko Salam & Pathor Ki Dewar Ali Sardar Jafri
Naivedyam (The Offering) N. Balamani Amma
Naked Came the Stranger Penelope Ashe
Nacked Face Sydney Sheldon
Naked Triangle Balwant Gargi
Napoleon of Notting Hill G.K. Chesterton
Nature and the Language Politics of India Robert D.King
Nehru Family and Sikhs Harbans Singh
Nelson Mandela: A Biography Martin Meredith
Netaji-Dead or Alive Samar Guha
Never At Home Dom Moraes
New Dimensions of Peace Chester Bowles
New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy Atal Behari Vajpayee
Nice Guys Finish Second B.K. Nehru
Nicholas Nickelby Charles Dickens
Night Manager John le Carre
Nile Basin Sir Richard Burton
Nine Days Wonder John Mansfield
Nisheeth Uma Shankar Joshi
Niti-Sataka Bhartrihari
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
1999-Victory Without War Richard Nixon
Nirbashita Narir Kabita Taslima Nasreen
Non-Violence in Peace and War M.K. Gandhi
North Seamus Heanev
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen
Nothing Like The Sun Anthony Burgess
No Full stops in India Mark Tully
Nuclear India G.G. Mirchandani and P.K.S. Namboodari
Nurturing Development Ismail Serageldin
Nursery Alice Lewis Carroll
O’Jerusalem Larry Collins and Dominique Lepierre
Occasion for Loving Nadine Gordimer
Odessa File Frederick Forsyth
Odakkuzal G.Shankara Kurup
Odyssey Homer
Of Human Bondage W.Somerset Maugham
Oh, Le Beaux Jours Samuel Beckett
Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens
Old Goriot Honore de Balzac
Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Old Path: white Clouds Thich Nht Hanh
Oliver’s Story Erich Segal
Oliver Twist Erich Segal
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Omeros Derek Walcott
On History Eric Hobswan
One Day in the Life of lvan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One-eyed Uncle Laxmikant Mahapatra
One World to Share Sridath Ramphal
One the Threshold of Hope Pope john Paul
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Upmanship Stephen Potter
One World and India Arnold Toynbee
One World Wendell Wilkie
Only One Year Svetlana
Operation Bluestar-the True Story Lt-Gen.K.S. Brar
Operation Shylock Philip Roth
Origin of Species Charles Darwin
Oru Desathinte Katha S.K. Pottekatt
Other Side of Midnight Sydney Sheldon
Othello Shakespeare
Our Films, Their Films Satyajit Ray
Our India Minoo Masani
Out of Dust F.D. Karaka
Paddy Clarke Ha, Ha, Ha Reddy Doyle
Padmavati Malik Mohammed Jayasi
Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham
Painter of Signs R.K. Narayan
Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy
Pakistan in the 20th Century
Political History
Lawrence Ziring
Pakistan Crisis David Loshak
Pakistan Papers Mani Shankar Aiyer
Pakistan-The Gathering Storm Benazir Bhutto
Panchagram Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya
Panchtantra Vishnu Sharma
Paradise Lost John Milton
Pakistan Cut to Size D.R. Mankekar
Paradiso Alighieri Dante
Paradise Regained John Milton
Passage to England Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Passage to India E.M. Forster
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle

Past Forward G.R. Narayanan
Pather Panchali Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyaya
Path to Power Margaret Thatcher
Patriot Pearl S. Buck
Pavilion of Women Pearl S. Buck
Peculiar Music Emily Bronte
Peter Pan J.M. Barrie
Personal of Democracy P.C. Alexander
Personal Adventure Theodore H. White
Persuasion Jane Austen
Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens
Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan
Pillow Problems and the Tangled Tale Lewis Carroll
Pinjar Amrita Pritam
Plague Albert Camus
Plans for Departure Nayantara Sehgal
Pleading Guilty Scott Turow
Poison Belt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Politics Aristotle
Portrait of India Ved Mehta
Possessed Albert Camus
Post Office Rabindranath Tagore
Power and Glory Graham Greene
Power of Movement in Plants Charles Darwin
Power That Be David Halberstan
Prathama Pratishruti Ashapurna Devi
Prem Pachisi Prem Chand
Prelude William Wordsworth
Premonitions P.N. Haksar
Preparing for the Twentieth Century Paul Kennedy
Price of Partition Rafiq Zakaria
Price of Power-Kissinger in the Nixon White House Seymour M. Hersh
Princess in Love Ann Pasternak
Prison and Chocolate Cake Nayantara Sehgal
Prison Diary Jayaprakash Narayan
Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope
Prisoner’s Scrapbook L.K. Advani
Primary Colors Anonymous
Prince Machiavelli
Prithviraj Raso Chand Bardai
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Principia Isaac Newton
Professor Charlotte Bronte
Profiles & Letters K. Natwar Singh
Promises to Keep Chester Bowles
Punjab, The Knights of Falsehood K.P.S. Gill
Purgatory Alighieri Dante
Pyramids of Sacrifice Peter L.Berger
Pygmation G.B. Shaw
Quarantene Jim Crass
Quest for Conscience Madhu Dandavate
R Documents Irving Wallace
Rabbit, Run John Updike
Radharani Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Rage of Angels Sydney Sheldon
Ragtime E.L. Doctorow
Raghuvamsa Kalidas
Rajtarangini Kalhana
Ram Charit Manas Tulsidas
Ramayana Maharishi Valmiki (in Sanskrit)
Ramayana Dharshanam K.V. Puttappa
Rangbhoomi Prem Chand
Rains Came Louis Bromefield
Rain King Saul Bellow
Rainbow Pearl S. Buck
Raj : The Making & Unmaking of British India Lawrence James
Rang-e-Shairi Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri
Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope
Rape of Nanking: An undeniable
History of Photographs
Shi Young
Rape of Bangladesh Anthony Mascarenhas
Rare Glimpses of the Raj Pran Nevile
Ratnavali Harsha Vardhan
Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi) Gulzar
Razor’s Edge Somerset Maugham
Rebel Albert Camus
Rebirth Leonid Brezhnev
Red and Black Stendhal
Red Star Over China Edgar Snow
Red Wheel Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Rediscovering Gandhi Yogesh Chadha
Reflections on the Frence Revolution Edmund Burke
Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
Remembering Babylon David Malouf
Reminiscences Thomas Carlyle
Reminiscences Thomas Carlyle
Reminiscences of the Nehru Age M.O. Mathai
Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clark
Reprieve Jean Paul Sartre
Republic Plato
Rescue Joseph Conrad
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy
Return of the Aryans Bhagwan S. Gidwani
Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
Returning to the Source Acharya Rajneesh
Revenue Stamp Amrita Pritam
Rich Like Us Nayantara Sehgal
Riding the Storm Harold MacMillan
Rights the Man Thomas Paina
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Paul Kennedy
Ritu Ka Pehla Phool Vijendra
Ritu Samhara Kalidas
Rivals R.B. Sheridan
River Sutra Gita Mehta
Road to Folly Leslie Ford
Road to Freedom K.K. Khullar
Robe Lloyd C. Douglas
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Room at the Top John Braine Roots
Rubaiyat-i-Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald
Rukh Te Rishi Harbhajan Singh
Sader-i-Riyasat Karan Singh
Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims Rafiq Zakaria
Sakharam Binder Vijay Tendulkar
Saket Maithili Sharan Gupta
Satyartha Prakash Swami Dayanand
Smaler’s Planet Saul Bellow
Sanctuary William Faulkner
Sands of Time Sidney Sheldon
Santa Evita Tomas Eloymartinez
Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
Savitri Aurobindo Ghosh
Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy
Scenes from a Writer’s Life Ruskin Bond
Sceptred Flute Sarojini Naidu
Schindlr’s List Thomas Keneally
Scholar Extraordinary Nirad C. Chaudhuri
School for Scandal R.B. Sheridan
Scope of Happiness Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Search for Home Sasthi Brata
Second World War Winston Churchill
Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
Sense of Time S.H. Vatsyayan
Sesame and Lilies John Ruskin
Seven Lamps of Architecture John Ruskin
Seven Summers Mulk Raj Anand
Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift
Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Tales from Shakespeare Charles Lamb
Tales of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Talisman Sir Walter Scott
Tamas Bhisham Sahni
Tar Baby Toni Morrison
Tarkash Javed Akhtar
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tehriq-e-Mujahideen Dr. Sadiq Hussain
Temple Tiger Jim Corbett
Tess of D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Thank You, Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse
The Age of Extremes Eric Holsbawm
The Assassination K. Mohandas
The Agenda-Indide the Clinton White House Bob Woodward
The Agony and Ecstasy Irving Stone
The Best and the Brightest David Malberstam
The Beach Tree Pearl S. Buck
The Betrayal of East Pakistan Lt. Gen. A.A.K. Niazi
The Calcutta Chromosome Amitav Ghosh
The Career & Legend of Vasco de Gama Sanjay Subramanyam
The Commitments Roddy Doyle
The Cardinal Henry Morton Robinson
The Changing World of Executive Peter Drucker
The Chinese Betrayal B.N. Mullick
The Congress Splits R.P. Rao
The Dark Side of Camelot Seymore Hersh
The Defeat or Distant Drumbeats Bhaskar Roy
The Diplomatic Bag John Ure
Ugly Duckling H.C. Anderson
Ulysses James Joyce
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Mrs.Hariet Stowe
Unconsoled Kazuo Ishiguro
Under Western Eye Joseph Conrad
Unhappy India Lala Lajpat Rai
Universe Around Us James Jeans
Until Darkness Parvin Ghaffari
Utouchable Mulk Raj Anand
Upturned Soil Mikhail Sholokov
Urvashi Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’
Uttar Ramcharita Bhava Bhuti
Utopia Thomas More
Unto This Last John Ruskin
Untold Story Gen.B.M.Kaul
Valley of Dolls Jacqueline Susanne
Vanity Fair Thackeray
Vendor of Sweets R.K.Narayan
Venisamhara Narayana Bhatt
Very Old Bones William Kennedy
Victim Saul Bellow
Victory Joseph Conrad
Video Nights in Kathmandu Pico Lyer
View from Delhi Chester Bowles
View from the UN U Thant
Vikram and the Vampire Sir Richard Burton
Village by the Sea Anita Desai
Village Mulk Raj Anand
Vinay Patrika Tulsidas
Virangana Maithili Sharan Gupta
Virginians William Thackeray
Vish Vriksha Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Voice of Conscience V.V. Giri
Voice of Freedom Nayantara Sehgal
Voice of the Voiceless Rutsh Harring
Waiting for Godot Samuel Becket
Waiting for the Mahatma R.K. Narayan
Waiting to Exhale Terry McMillan
Wake up India Annie Besant
Walls of Glass K.A. Abbas
War and Peace Tolstoy
War and No Peace Over Kashmir Maroof Raza
War Minus the Shooting Mike Marquesee
War of Indian Independence Vir Savarkar
War of the Worlds H.G.Wells
Waste Land T.S. Eliot
Way of the World William Congreve
We, Indians Khushwant Singh
We, the People N.A. Palkhivala
Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
Week with Gandhi Louis Fischer
West Wind Pearl S. Buck
Westward Ho Charles Kingsley
Where the Grass is Greener David M. Smith
While England Sleeps David Leavitt
Whispers of the Desert Fatima Bhutto
White House Years Henry Kissinger
Widening Divide Rafiq Zakaria
Wild Ass’s Skin Honore de Balzac
Wings of fire, an Autobiography Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam & A. Tiwari
Winston Churchill Clive Ponting
Witness to History Prem Bhatia
Without Fear or Favour Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Witness to an Era Frank Moraes
Woman’s Life Guy de Maupassant
Women and Men in My Life Khushwant Singh
Wonder That Was India A.L. Basham
World According to Garp John Irving
World Within Words Stephen Spender
Worthy it is Odysseus Elytis
Worshipping False Gods Arun Shourie
Wreck Rabindra Nath Tagore
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Yajnaseni Dr. Pratibha Roy
Yama Mahadevi Verma
Yashodhara Maithili Sharan Gupta
Yayati V.S. Khandekar
Year of the Upheaval Henry Kissinger
Year of the Vulture Amita Malik
Years of Pilgrimage Dr.Raja Ramanna
Yesterday and Today K.P.S. Menon
Zool: The Final Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
Zhivago,Dr. Boris Pasternak
Zlata’s Diary-A Child’s Zlata Filipovic Life in Sarajero
Zulfi, My Friend Piloo Mody
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto & Pakistan Rafi Raza