Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:

Read the passage and answer the questions:

Charkha

What I object to, is the craze for machinery as such. The craze is for what they call labour-saving machinery. Men go on "saving labour", till thousands are without work and thrown on the open streets to die of starvation. I want to save time and labour, not for a fraction of mankind, but for all; I want the concentration of wealth, not in the hands of few, but in the hands of all.

YOUNG INDIA, 13 NOVEMBER 1924

Khaddar does not seek to destroy all machinery but it does regulate its use and check its weedy growth. It uses machinery for the service of the poorest in their own cottages. The wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery.

YOUNG INDIA, 17 MARCH 1927

What is the writer opposing in the passage?

Options:

Quest for modernisation

Setting up of factories

Changing trends in modern times

Mindless craze for machinery

Correct Answer:

Mindless craze for machinery

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (4) → Mindless craze for machinery

The writer is not against all machinery, but against its excessive and blind use that causes unemployment and wealth concentration.