Books and Authors question: In a comparison beginning with A History of South India, which of the following book–author pairs is incorrectly matched?

The source-backed, question-specific record explains: A History of South India is correctly associated with K. These three details—title, author, and language—form the decisive bibliographical combination required here. The distractor set (Akbarnama — Abu’l-Fazl ibn Mubarak; Kamayani — Jaishankar Prasad; India Wins Freedom — Maulana Abul Kalam Azad) must therefore be tested as complete statements: one true fragment cannot make an entire option correct. A common examination trap is to confuse an author’s nationality with the language of composition, or a translation date with first publication. Revision takeaway: remember the compact chain “A History of South India — K. This evidence establishes the bibliographic relationship required in this Books and Authors item. A correct solution must preserve the exact title, author, publication context, language, award or comparison requested by the stem. Similar periods, genres or national traditions do not make two book–author pairs interchangeable. Option A gives A History of South India — Abu’l-Fazl ibn Mubarak and satisfies the wording of the question. The remaining choices—Akbarnama — Abu’l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Kamayani — Jaishankar Prasad and India Wins Freedom — Maulana Abul Kalam Azad—do not satisfy the complete requirement. Depending on the stem, a distractor may name a real writer but attach the wrong title, use a related work by another author, reverse a correct association, or present a correct pair when the question specifically asks for the incorrect match. The reliable checking method is to identify the reference title first, recall or verify its credited author, and then read qualifiers such as “both works,” “original language,” “first published,” “correctly matched” or “incorrectly.