Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer using the code…

Match-the-list questions on India's independence movement test whether each writer's landmark text is correctly paired with its real author. The four texts here span decades of anti-colonial historiography, and only the sequence that matches each text to its documented author is correct — a thematically plausible-looking pairing is not enough.

Checking each author against the historical record:

• V. D. Savarkar (A) wrote The Indian War of Independence of 1857 (1909), his revolutionary reframing of the 1857 revolt — text 2.

• Sunder Lal (B) wrote British Rule in India, a documented critique of colonial economic and political policy — text 1.

• S. N. Sen (C) wrote Eighteen Fifty-Seven, the official history of the 1857 revolt commissioned by the Government of India for its 1957 centenary — text 4.

• Subhash Chandra Bose (D) wrote The Indian Struggle, his own political memoir of the freedom movement — text 3.

Together these four verified pairings give the sequence A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3.

Checking this against the other three sequences offered confirms none of them holds up:

• A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 simply follows the list order of both columns — none of its four pairings matches any author's actual work.

• A-1, B-4, C-3, D-2 reassigns every text to a different author than the one who actually wrote it — again, none of its four pairings survives a check against the documented authorship.

• A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4 gets Savarkar and Sunder Lal right but interchanges the entries for S. N. Sen and Subhash Chandra Bose, crediting each with the other's text.