About 30 theatre groups have become defunct around textile mills in Mumbai as most of the Mill workers are out of jobs in these areas.
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Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Globalisation is a threat to many indigenous crafts and literary traditions
Option (1) There is a difference between lockout and strike — Incorrect. The statement is true in itself: in a strike workers do not go to work, while in a lockout the management shuts the gate and keeps workers out. But the example is about theatre groups that died out, not about how a mill dispute was carried on.
Option (2) The needs of the textile mill workers are not being met — Incorrect. The mill workers have lost their jobs, but the point of the example is what happened to a cultural tradition, the theatre groups the workers kept alive. This option says nothing about that loss.
Option (3) Globalisation is a threat to many indigenous crafts and literary traditions — Correct. The condition of many indigenous craft and literary traditions shows a link between cultural forms and globalisation. About 30 theatre groups active around the textile mills of Parel and Girgaum in Mumbai became defunct because most of the mill workers were out of jobs; when the workers’ livelihood went, the culture built round it went too.
Option (4) Mass Media provided a new source of livelihood to textile workers — Incorrect. The example says the opposite: the mill workers were out of jobs, and their theatre groups closed.
NCERT (2025-26): “Threat to many Indigenous Craft and Literary Traditions and Knowledge Systems … Yet another link between cultural forms and globalisation is evident from the condition of many indigenous craft and literary traditions and knowledge systems. It is, however, important to remember that modern development even prior to the stage of globalisation did make inroads into traditional cultural forms and occupations based on them. But the sheer scale and intensity of change is enormous. For instance about 30 theatre groups, which were active around the textile mills area of Parel and Girgaum of Mumbai city, have become defunct, as most of the mill workers are out of jobs in these areas.…” |