Match List I with List II:

List I: Novel	List II: Writer
A. Waiting for the Mahatma	I. Bhabani Bhattacharya
B. So Many Hungers!	II. R. K. Narayan
C. The Sword and the Sickle	III. Manohar Malgonkar
D. Distant Drum	IV. Mulk Raj Anand

1. AA-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
2. BA-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
3. CA-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
4. DA-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

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Correct answer: A. A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

Explanation

Narayan's Waiting for the Mahatma (1955); Bhattacharya's Bengal-famine novel So Many Hungers! (1947); Anand's The Sword and the Sickle (1942, third of the Lalu trilogy); Malgonkar's army novel Distant Drum (1960).