Read the given passage and answer the question that follows: Your answer to this item should be based on the passage only. Though I have discarded much of past tradition and custom, and am anxious that India should rid herself of all shackles that bind and contain her and divide her people, and suppress vast numbers of them, and prevent the free development of the body and the spirit; though I seek all this, yet I do not wish to cut myself off from that past completely. I am proud of that great inheritance that has been and is, ours and I am conscious that I too, like all of us, am a link in that unbroken chain which goes back to the dawn of history in the immemorial past of India. The author wants India to rid herself of certain past bonds because
Read the given passage and answer the question that follows: Your answer to this item should be based on the passage only. Though I have discarded much of past tradition and custom, and am anxious that India should rid herself of all shackles that bind and contain her and divide her people, and suppress vast numbers of them, and prevent the free development of the body and the spirit; though I seek all this, yet I do not wish to cut myself off from that past completely. I am proud of that great inheritance that has been and is, ours and I am conscious that I too, like all of us, am a link in that unbroken chain which goes back to the dawn of history in the immemorial past of India. The author wants India to rid herself of certain past bonds because Correct Answer they obstruct her physical and spiritual growth
The correct answer is they obstruct her physical and spiritual growth.
Key Points
- In the passage, the author has talked about the problems with the past traditions of India.
- According to him/her, our country should get rid of the past bondages because they prevent the free development of the body and the spirit, as the given lines contain: "...and suppress vast numbers of them, and prevent the free development of the body and the spirit; though I seek all this, yet I do not wish to cut myself off from that past completely."
Thus, the correct answer would be that they obstruct her physical and spiritual growth.