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For thousands of Dolhites who have gone through the pain of Partition in 1947. It will be a walk down the memory lane when they visit the world's second museum of partition of India at Delhi's Dara Shikoh Library building.

for their descendants, it will be an opportunity to see what their parents and grandparents had suffered and a lesson in history about the world's largest migration. The purpose of the museum is to connect people with their past.

It will also give visitors a sense of heritage. "History is important and the young generation should learn from the past and should not repeat the mistakes "said the chairperson of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust, Kishwar Desai, Lakhs of people were killed and displaced during Partition and people need to remember that such violence should never happen, she added." 8 A wooden sculpture of a horse loaded with skeleton and bones made in paper mache style by Kashmir artist Veer Munshi canveys the pain of people during the migration in a few audio-visual clips. Delhi residents who decided to stay back narrated their experience what they saw, what happened to them, the day of Independence.

Rehabilitation was also not easy and this struggle has been depicted through a wooden "fallen house" made by Munshi. Even when a person tries to resettle, his/her house has actually fallen apart, Dasai pointed out.

Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

Statement I:The museum at Dara Shikoh Library tries to capture the pain of Partition.
Statement II:Rehabilitation was not a struggle for the displaced migrants.
ABoth Statement I and Statement II are correct
BBoth Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
CStatement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect ✓ Correct
DStatement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Correct answer: (C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
Explanation

Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect, so that is the answer.

The museum uses art and audio-visual clips to convey the pain of Partition.

So Statement I correctly describes its aim.

The passage says rehabilitation was also not easy.

The struggle of resettling is shown through a wooden fallen house.

So rehabilitation was a struggle, making Statement II incorrect.

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