How many of these are correct?
(A) No oppressed group is only a victim.
(B) State action alone cannot ensure social change.
(C) Daya Pawar is a Kannada Dalit poet.
(D) Dalits have enriched Telugu literature.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Only three
(A) No oppressed group is only a victim. — Correct. However weak or oppressed a social group is, it is never only a victim, because people can organise to struggle for justice and dignity.
(B) State action alone cannot ensure social change. — Correct. Laws and state programmes are not enough by themselves to change society. People's own action on political, agitational and cultural fronts is also needed.
(C) Daya Pawar is a Kannada Dalit poet. — Incorrect. Daya Pawar is a well-known Dalit poet who wrote in Marathi. The language is wrong in this statement.
(D) Dalits have enriched Telugu literature. — Correct. Dalits have made significant contributions to literature in several Indian languages, and Telugu is one of them, along with Marathi, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi.
NCERT (2026-27): “State and Non-State Initiatives Addressing Caste and Tribe Discrimination … “In any case, no social group howsoever weak or oppressed is only a victim. Human beings are always capable of organising and acting on their own – often against very heavy odds – to struggle for justice and dignity. Dalits too have been increasingly active on the political, agitational, and cultural fronts. From the pre-Independence struggles and movements launched by people like Jyotiba Phule, Iyotheedas, Periyar, Ambedkar and others (See Chapter 3) to contemporary political organisations like the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh or the Dalit Sangharsh Samiti of Karnataka, Dalit political assertion has come a long way. Dalits have also made significant contributions to literature in several Indian languages, specially Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. (See Box 5.4 which features a short poem by the well known Marathi Dalit poet, Daya Pawar.)” |