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DIRECTIONS (Q. No. 106 to 114) : Read the passage givenbelow and answer the questions that follow by selecting themost appropriate option.
The real indictment against colonialism was to be found in thevillages of India. There was a rot at the top, too, in the thousandsof young intellectuals trained in English schools for jobs that didnot exist except in the limited Civil Service. The towns and citieswere frothing with unhappy young men, cultured and welleducated, who could find no jobs and were not allowed by theold super-structure of empire to create them.
But the real proof of evil, I say again, was in the miserablevillages. I thought I had seen poverty in China, yet when I sawthe Indian villages, I knew that the Chinese peasant was rich incomparison. Only the Russian peasant I had seen years beforecould compare with the Indian villager, although that Russianwas a very different creature and inferior in many ways.
And the children, the little children of the Indian villages,how they tore at my heart: thin, big bellied, and all with huge darkeyes! I wondered that any Englishman could look at them andnot excuse himself. Three hundred years of English occupationand rule, and could there be children like this ? Yes, and millionsof them!
And the final indictment surely was that the life span inIndia was only twenty-seven years. Twenty-seven years! Nowonder, then that a man married very young so that there couldbe children, as many as possible, before he died. I loved England,remembering all the happy journeys there, but in India I saw anEngland I did not know.
The real indictment against colonialism was to be found in thevillages of India. There was a rot at the top, too, in the thousandsof young intellectuals trained in English schools for jobs that didnot exist except in the limited Civil Service. The towns and citieswere frothing with unhappy young men, cultured and welleducated, who could find no jobs and were not allowed by theold super-structure of empire to create them.
But the real proof of evil, I say again, was in the miserablevillages. I thought I had seen poverty in China, yet when I sawthe Indian villages, I knew that the Chinese peasant was rich incomparison. Only the Russian peasant I had seen years beforecould compare with the Indian villager, although that Russianwas a very different creature and inferior in many ways.
And the children, the little children of the Indian villages,how they tore at my heart: thin, big bellied, and all with huge darkeyes! I wondered that any Englishman could look at them andnot excuse himself. Three hundred years of English occupationand rule, and could there be children like this ? Yes, and millionsof them!
And the final indictment surely was that the life span inIndia was only twenty-seven years. Twenty-seven years! Nowonder, then that a man married very young so that there couldbe children, as many as possible, before he died. I loved England,remembering all the happy journeys there, but in India I saw anEngland I did not know.
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