Read the passage and answer the question:
The most wonderful ancient buildings in the state of Bhopal are at Sanchi Kanakhera, a small village under the brow of a hill some 20 miles north-east of Bhopal which we visited yesterday. We inspected the stone sculptures and statues of the Buddha and an ancient gateway … The ruins appear to be the object of great interest to European gentlemen. Major Alexander Cunningham … stayed several weeks in this neighbourhood and examined these ruins most carefully. He took drawings of the place, deciphered the inscription, and bored shafts down these domes. The results of his investigations were described by him in an English work …
Which of the following served as major attraction to the Europeans?
A. Drawings at Sanchi
B. Sanchi Inscriptions
C. Ancient Gateway
D. Stone Statues of Buddha
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → C, D only
The passage is an account of a visit to the ruins at Sanchi Kanakhera. The visitors say that they inspected “the stone sculptures and statues of the Buddha and an ancient gateway”, and that these ruins appeared to be “the object of great interest to European gentlemen”. The French even sought Shahjehan Begum’s permission to take away the eastern gateway to a museum in France.
Hence, the answer is C, D only (Ancient Gateway and Stone Statues of Buddha).
NCERT (2026-27): “1. A Glimpse of Sanchi … Nineteenth-century Europeans were very interested in the stupa at Sanchi. In fact, the French sought Shahjehan Begum’s permission to take away the eastern gateway, which was the best preserved, to be displayed in a museum in France. For a while some Englishmen also wanted to do the same, but fortunately both the French and the English were satisfied with carefully prepared plaster-cast copies and the original remained at the site, part of the Bhopal state.…”
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