Match list – I with List - II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists : List – I (Book) A) The Story of My Deportation B) Gita Rahasya C) A Nation in Making D) India Wins Freedom List – II (Writer) 1) Surendranath Banerjee 2) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 3) Lala Lajpat Rai 4) Bal Gangadhar Tilak Codes:

The correct answer is A.

Each book pairs with one author. The Story of My Deportation is Lala Lajpat Rai's account of his deportation to Mandalay in 1907 under Regulation III of 1818, so A matches 3. Gita Rahasya was written by Bal Gangadhar Tilak during his Mandalay imprisonment, so B matches 4. A Nation in Making (1925) is Surendranath Banerjee's memoir of the national movement, so C matches 1. India Wins Freedom (published 1959, posthumously) is Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's account of the independence negotiations and Partition, so D matches 2.

The other options each break at least one pair. Option B gives Gita Rahasya to Azad, option C gives The Story of My Deportation to Azad, and option D gives Gita Rahasya to Banerjee.

The core concept is the literature of the freedom struggle. For Mains, these texts show the moderate-extremist divide and the debate around Partition.

Trap: Candidates often link Lajpat Rai and Tilak because both were jailed or deported to Mandalay, and then guess the pairing. Match each book to its author's own record instead.