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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

There's more than the 101-seater dining table at the Falaknuma Palace that is awe inspiring. The library done in rosewood and mahogany is a place that will force anyone to pause, if only to admire the fine original polish, the furniture and the walnut carved high roof. The last is supposedly an imitation of the one at Windsor Castle.

The library is almost the size of a large banquet hall and acts as the passage to other parts of the palace including the dining area. For years the palace had no librarian because they couldn't find the right person to do justice to the treasure trove of books collected by the Nizam's family over several decades. That is until they found Asif Husain Arastu who belongs to the family that owned the famous A A Husain book store in Abids. So when his friend and historian Anuradha Naik pointed out the palace's requirement at the library, Husain was delighted. On his very first day as the librarian at the magnificent Taj Falaknuma palace, Asif Husain found a reference book on 'How to paint grass' by Alfred East.

Which part of the palace is an imitation of the Windsor Palace?

In India, planned economy is based on

Among the components of the dermis are:

a. sweat glands

b. hair follicles

c. collagen fibers

d. sensory- nerve endings

e. arrestor pill muscles

The prices at which the government purchases food grains for maintaining the Public Distribution system (PDS) and for building up buffer - stock is known as :

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Happy is the man (who acquired) the habit of reading when he is young

One who collects coins as hobby

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Even after 70 years of achieving independence, democracy, (in its true senses), was yet to come to India.

Jawaharlal Nehru award is given for