Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Framing the Constitution

Question:

Read the passage and answer the questions:

"The British element is gone, but they have left the mischief behind"

It is no use saying that we ask for separate electorates, because it is good for us. We have heard it long enough. We have heard it for years, and as a result of this agitation we are now a separate nation... Can you show me one free country where there are separate electorates? If so, I shall be prepared to accept it. But in this unfortunate country if this separate electorate is going to be persisted in, even after the division of the country, woe betide the country; it is not worth living in. Therefore, I say, it is not for my good alone, it is for your own good that I say it, forget the past. One day, we may be united... The British element is gone, but they have left the mischief behind. We do not want to perpetuate that mischief. (Hear, hear). When the British introduced this element they had not expected that they will have to go so soon. They wanted it for their easy administration. That is all right. But they have left the legacy behind. Are we to get out of it or not?

What is opposed by the speaker in the above passage?

Options:

The division of the country

The demand for separate electorate

The lapse of the British element

The demand for easy administration

Correct Answer:

The demand for separate electorate

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → The demand for separate electorate

The passage shows the speaker strongly opposing the continuation of separate electorates, calling it a mischief left by the British.