IPMAT Rohtak 2020
VA
Reading Comprehension
Easy
Mahatma Gandhi believed that industrialisation was no answer to the problems that plague the mass of India's poor and that villagers should be taught to be self-sufficient in food, weave their own cloth from cotton and eschew the glittering prizes that the 20 th century so temptingly offers. Such an idyllic and rural paradise did not appear to those who inherited the reins of political power.
The basis of 'an idyllic and rural paradise' is
The basis of 'an idyllic and rural paradise' is
Correct Option: 2
"idyllic" means beautiful and peaceful. According to Gandhi, the basis of an idyllic and rural paradise is self-sufficiency in food, weave clothes from cotton and eschew (refuse) industrialisatiion. This aligns perfectly with Option 2.Option 1 completely contradicts what Gandhi said. Option 3 does the same, as Gandhi asked to eschew the glittering prizes of the 20th century. Option 4 does the same, as according to Gandhi, those in powerful politcal positions could never imagine an idyllic and rural paradise.