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This author included photos of fish fossils in a book explaining such topics as “The Animals Appear” and “The Coming of Men” to a young girl living in the hill town of Mussoorie. A book by this author describes how he embraced Cyrenaic hedonism and got the nickname “Joe” while in England in the chapter “Harrow and Cambridge.” This author describes his wife’s 1936 death in Lausanne in a book whose chapter “The Quest” draws on his earlier book Glimpses of World History. This author of (15[1])Letters from a Father to His Daughter (15[1])discussed (15[1])the (*) Vedas, (10[3])the recently excavated Indus civilization, and events up through British colonization in a book written in prison at Ahmednagar Fort. The birthday of this author of The Discovery of India is (10[1])celebrated on Children’s Day. For 10 points, what politician (10[1])said his country (-5[1])would be free at “the stroke (10[1])of the midnight (10[1])hour” in his 1947 “Tryst (10[1])with Destiny” (10[1])speech? ■END■ (10[1])

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