Match List-I (Cause) with List-II (Consequence).
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| (A) Formation of linguistic states in India | (I) Partition of the country |
| (B) Ignoring the aspirations of Indian language communities | (II) Protests from the Tamils of the north |
| (C) Making Sinhala the sole official language of Ceylon | (III) An escape from an even worse fate |
| (D) Intense attachment to one's faith | (IV) One language, fourteen or fifteen nations |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Formation of linguistic states in India | (III) An escape from an even worse fate | Guha argues that forming linguistic states allowed India to escape an even worse fate. Meeting the demands of language groups kept the country together. |
| (B) Ignoring the aspirations of Indian language communities | (IV) One language, fourteen or fifteen nations | Had the aspirations of Indian language communities been ignored, India might have split into many nations sharing one language. Ignoring them would have broken the country apart. |
| (C) Making Sinhala the sole official language of Ceylon | (II) Protests from the Tamils of the north | When Ceylon made Sinhala its sole official language in 1956, the Tamils of the north protested. Denying the minority its language caused the protest. |
| (D) Intense attachment to one's faith | (I) Partition of the country | Partition was the result of intense attachment to one's faith. Religious loyalty divided the country in 1947. |
NCERT (2026-27): “6.2 Regionalism in the Indian Context … “To be sure, these states based on language sometimes quarrel with each other. While these disputes are not pretty, they could in fact have been far worse. In the same year, 1956, that the SRC mandated the redrawing of the map of India on linguistic lines, the Parliament of Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was then known) proclaimed Sinhala the country’s sole offi cial language despite protests from the Tamils of the north. One left-wing Sinhala MP issued a prophetic warning to the chauvinists. “One language, two nations”, he said, adding: “Two languages, one nation”.” “The civil war that has raged in Sri Lanka since 1983 is partly based on the denial by the majority linguistic group of the rights of the minority. Another of India’s neighbours, Pakistan, was divided in 1971 because the Punjabi and Urdu speakers of its western wing would not respect the sentiments of the Bengalis in the east.” “It is the formation of linguistic states that has allowed India to escape an even worse fate. If the aspirations of the Indian language communities had been ignored, what we might have had here was – “One language, fourteen or fi fteen nations.”” |