Modern Indian History

Which of these fits gap (iv)?

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered gaps.

Gandhiji’s views were too spiritual to be strictly adopted in life. However, his influence and importance were ___(i)___. It was he who got us freedom without bloodshed and ___(ii)____ other nations to demand their freedom. He championed against many ___(iii)___. He loved India but more importantly he loved God and man. His name has become a ___(iv)____. There has hardly been any revolutionary who was so powerfully good.

The similarity between Martin Luther King and Gandhiji was that both

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Martin Luther King’s active career extended from 1957 to 1968. During this brief career, he led numerous protest demonstrations in the South as well as in the North of the USA. He challenged the moral complacency of America and fought for the rights of the Negroes, he hated the eye-for-an-eye method like Gandhiji and fought with the weapon of non-violence, a weapon, said King, that ‘cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals’. In addition, he raised a vast army. It was an army that would move but not maul. It was an army to storm bastions of hatred, to lay siege to the fortress of segregation, to surround symbols of discrimination. It was an army whose allegiance was to God and whose strategic intelligence were the eloquently simple dictates of conscience. His creed of non-violence was criticized and challenged by ‘Black Power’ militants who would not renounce the use of violence to achieve their goals. Nevertheless, his faith in non-violence never wavered.

The demand for freedom became a ‘great force’. What is the most likely reason for it?

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A whole generation of Indians gave up everything and spent their lives in fighting the British in Gandhi’s way, without hurting, without violence, without hatred. The hope that India would one day be free kept them going through very difficult times and gave them courage. When millions of people want the same thing very much, it is a great force which even the most powerful army cannot oppose.

Which is the ‘most powerful army’ referred to in the passage?

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A whole generation of Indians gave up everything and spent their lives in fighting the British in Gandhi’s way, without hurting, without violence, without hatred. The hope that India would one day be free kept them going through very difficult times and gave them courage. When millions of people want the same thing very much, it is a great force which even the most powerful army cannot oppose.

How many years after independence did Goa become a state?

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Goa, a tiny emerald land on the west coast of India, the 25th State in the Union of States of India, was liberated from Portuguese rule in 1961. It was part of the Union territory of Goa, Daman & Diu  until 30 May 1987 when it was carved out to form a separate state. Goa covers an area of 3702 square kilometers and comprises two Revenue districts; North Goa and South Goa. The Boundaries of the state of Goa are defined in the North by the Terekhol River which separates it from Maharashtra, in the East and South by Karnataka State and West by the Arabian Sea. Goa lies on the Western Coast of India and is 594 kms. (by road) away from Mumbai city.