Indian Literature Questions Answers

31. Which Bengali poet is known as the 'Bidrohi Kobi' (Rebel Poet) for his contributions during the independence movement?

• A) Sukanta Bhattacharya
• B) Satyendranath Dutta
• C) Kazi Nazrul Islam
• D) Buddhadeb Bose

32. Who was the first recipient of the Jnanpith Award?

• A) G. Sankara Kurup
• B) Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
• C) Sumitranandan Pant
• D) Firaq Gorakhpuri

33. Who was the first woman to receive the Jnanpith Award?

• A) Indira Goswami
• B) Ashapurna Devi
• C) Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
• D) Sarojini Naidu

34. In which year was the Sahitya Akademi Award established?

• A) 1950
• B) 1952
• C) 1954
• D) 1956

35. In which year did Salman Rushdie win the Booker Prize?

• A) 1981
• B) 1984
• C) 1987
• D) 1990

36. Who was the first recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi literature?

• A) Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
• B) Harivansh Rai Bachchan
• C) Makhanlal Chaturvedi
• D) Sumitranandan Pant

37. Who was the first woman to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award?

• A) Mahasweta Devi
• B) Bani Basu
• C) Ashapurna Devi
• D) Amrita Pritam

38. Who was the first recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for English literature?

• A) Nayantara Sahgal
• B) R.K. Narayan
• C) Raja Rao
• D) Mulk Raj Anand

39. Who was the first Hindi poet to receive the Jnanpith Award?

• A) Sumitranandan Pant
• B) Suryakant Tripathi
• C) Maithili Sharan Gupt
• D) Hazari Prasad Dwivedi

40. In which year was Munshi Premchand's novel 'Godaan' first published?

• A) 1932
• B) 1936
• C) 1938
• D) 1944