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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... Mahatma Gandhi's views opposed industrialisation of villages because

  1. it would help the poor and not the rich

  2. it would take away the skill of the villagers

  3. it would affect the culture of the Indians

  4. it would undermine self-sufficiency and destroy the beauty of life of the villager
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Explanation

The passage indicates Gandhi opposed industrialization because it would make villagers dependent on outside systems and erode their traditional self-sufficiency skills, not primarily because of cultural effects or helping the poor.

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