UGC NET History Practice Question

Who wrote the classic autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth originally in Gujarati?

Mahatma Gandhi ✓

Jawaharlal Nehru

Subhas Chandra Bose

Rajendra Prasad

Gandhi wrote his autobiography in Gujarati (later translated into English) as The Story of My Experiments with Truth, tracing his personal, moral, and political development — one of the single most important primary sources for understanding his own self-conception and philosophy.

An Indian Pilgrim is the incomplete autobiography written by which charismatic leader?

Subhas Chandra Bose ✓

Jawaharlal Nehru

Bhagat Singh

C.R. Das

Subhas Chandra Bose's An Indian Pilgrim remained incomplete, covering only his early life — a partial but valuable primary source for understanding the formative influences behind his later, more radical political trajectory.

The extensive historical memoirs titled Autobiography: Toward Freedom were written in prison by:

Jawaharlal Nehru ✓

Jayaprakash Narayan

Rammanohar Lohia

Maulana Azad

Nehru wrote his Autobiography (Toward Freedom) during one of his many periods of imprisonment — a major primary source not just for his own political development but for his broader reflections on nationalism, socialism, and India's future.

India Wins Freedom is the autobiographical narrative of the Indian independence movement composed by:

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ✓

Rafi Ahmed Kidwai

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Hakim Ajmal Khan

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's India Wins Freedom offers his own, sometimes controversial, insider account of the final negotiations leading to independence and Partition — notable for parts that were initially withheld from publication until decades later, adding to its historiographical significance.

The Butler Committee (1927) was set up to examine and clarify:

The relationship between the British Paramount Power and the Indian Princely States ✓

Financial decentralization in British Indian provinces

Educational standards in residential universities

Labor safety regulations in textile mills

The Butler Committee specifically examined the constitutional relationship between the British Crown (as Paramount Power) and the Indian Princely States — a distinct question from British India's own governance, important for understanding the complex, dual structure of colonial-era Indian sovereignty.

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