Question

Match the following Books in Group-I with their corresponding Authors in Group-II.

Group-I	Group-II
P - Silent Spring	1 - Rachel Carson
Q - Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan	2 - Madhav Gadgil
R - Small is Beautiful	3 - Ramachandra Guha
S - The Unquiet Woods	4 - Salim Ali and S. D. Ripley
	5 - E. F. Schumacher

• A. P - 5, Q - 1, R - 4, S - 2
• B. P - 2, Q - 4, R - 5, S - 3
• C. P - 1, Q - 3, R - 2, S - 5
• D. P - 1, Q - 4, R - 5, S - 3

Hint:

Fix each book to its author: Carson wrote Silent Spring, Salim Ali and Ripley the bird handbook, Schumacher Small is Beautiful, and Guha The Unquiet Woods.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

Each of these four books is a landmark text on environment, ecology or economics, and each has one well-known author (or author pair). Taking them one at a time:

1. Silent Spring: Rachel Carson's 1962 book on the harm caused by indiscriminate pesticide use, widely credited with helping start the modern environmental movement.
2. Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan: the definitive ten-volume ornithological reference, co-authored by Salim Ali and S. D. Ripley, covering the birds of the subcontinent in detail.
3. Small is Beautiful: E. F. Schumacher's 1973 book of essays, subtitled "A Study of Economics As If People Mattered", arguing for small-scale, human-centred technology and economics.
4. The Unquiet Woods: Ramachandra Guha's 1989 study of peasant resistance movements in the Himalaya, including the Chipko movement, and their ecological roots.

So Silent Spring pairs with Rachel Carson (1), Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan with Salim Ali and S. D. Ripley (4), Small is Beautiful with E. F. Schumacher (5), and The Unquiet Woods with Ramachandra Guha (3). Madhav Gadgil (2), an ecologist known for his own separate body of work on India's environment, is the unused name here.

Let's summarize:

• Carson wrote on pesticides, Salim Ali/Ripley catalogued birds, Schumacher argued for small-scale economics, and Guha documented Himalayan forest movements.

The correct match is P - 1, Q - 4, R - 5, S - 3, which is option (D).