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Q88 (IAS/1999) History & Culture › Culture, Literature, Religion & Philosophy › Modern Indian literature Answer Verified

Which one of the following statements is not correct ?

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Option 3 is not correct. Nil Darpan (Neel Darpan) was a dramatization of the atrocities inflicted by British indigo planters on Bengal’s cultivators, written by Dinabandhu Moitra [1]. Ghashiram Kotwal is indeed a modern Marathi play by Vijay Tendulkar (internal knowledge). Nabanna (often spelled Navanna) was a landmark IPTA production that depicted the 1943 Bengal famine and was authored by Bijon Bhattacharya, not Nabin Chandra Das [2]. Urdu theatre also drew heavily on the Parsi theatre model, which exerted pan‑Indian influence on professional modern theatre forms [3]. Thus statement (3) is incorrect because it misattributes authorship of Nabanna even though the play’s subject — the Bengal famine — is rightly described.

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  1. [1] https://ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in/engp09/chapter/dinabandhu-moitra-neel-darpan/
  2. [2] https://ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in/engp09/chapter/bijon-bhattacharya-nabanna/
  3. [3] https://ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in/engp09/chapter/parsi-theatre/
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