Choose the correct statements.
(A) Urban areas may provide partial protection to socially oppressed groups from daily humiliation.
(B) In urban areas people humiliate each other on daily basis
(C) Urban areas allow socially dominant rural groups to engage in low status work.
(D) Rural-to-urban migration has accelerated.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A), (C), (D) only
(A) Urban areas may provide partial protection to socially oppressed groups from daily humiliation. Correct. The city offers relative anonymity, since urban life means dealing with strangers. For groups like the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes this may give some partial protection from the daily humiliation they suffer in the village, where everyone knows their caste.
(B) In urban areas people humiliate each other on daily basis. Incorrect. The point is the reverse: daily humiliation belongs to the village, where everyone knows a person’s caste; the anonymity of the city is what shields people from it.
(C) Urban areas allow socially dominant rural groups to engage in low status work. Correct. The anonymity of the city also allows the poorer sections of the socially dominant rural groups to take up low status work that they could not do in their own village.
(D) Rural-to-urban migration has accelerated. Correct. These reasons make the city an attractive destination for villagers. The swelling cities and the rapid rate of urbanisation in the post-Independence period bear testimony to this growing flow of people from villages to cities.
NCERT (2025-26): “2.6 Rural-Urban Differences … Sometimes the city may also be preferred for social reasons, specially the relative anonymity it offers. The fact that urban life involves interaction with strangers can be an advantage for different reasons. For the socially oppressed groups like the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, this may offer some partial protection from the daily humiliation they may suffer in the village where everyone knows their caste identity. The anonymity of the city also allows the poorer sections of the socially dominant rural groups to engage in low status work that they would not be able to do in the village. All these reasons make the city an attractive destination for the villagers. The swelling cities bear testimony to this flow of population. This is evident from the rapid rate of urbanisation in the post-Independence period.” |