Multiple choice general knowledge

Mahatma Gandhi believed that industrialisation was no answer to the problems that plague the mass of India's poor and that villagers should be taught to be self-sufficient in food, weave their own cloth from cotton and eschew the glittering prizes that the 20th century so temptingly offers. Such an idyllic and rural paradise did not appear to those who inherited the reins of political power... The basis of 'an idyllic and rural paradise' is

  1. rapid industrialisation of villages

  2. self sufficiency in food clothes and simplicity of the lifestyle

  3. bringing to the villages the glittering prizes of the 20th century

  4. supporting those holdings powerful political positions
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Gandhi's vision centered on rural self-sufficiency where villagers produced their own food and clothing, rejecting industrialization. This self-reliance in basic needs formed the foundation of his 'idyllic and rural paradise' concept.

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