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Who wrote 'Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent'?

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SSC CGL 2025 Tier 2 Paper 1 Question Paper (19-Jan-2026)
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Pranay Lal

Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent was written by biochemist Pranay Lal, first published by Penguin in 2016. The book traces the geological and biological history of the Indian subcontinent over billions of years and won the 2017 Tata Literature Live! Award for Best First Book (Non-Fiction).

Sanjeev Sanyal writes economic and historical non-fiction (e.g. Land of the Seven Rivers); Tony Joseph wrote Early Indians; Rohan Murty is associated with the Murty Classical Library of India series, not this title.

Hence the answer is Pranay Lal — option 2.

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