History · From State to Empire
UGC NET June 2011 History
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below.
Assertion (A): The Nishadas, originally aboriginals, were untouchables to the Buddhists.
Reason (R): This is in tune with the attitude of the early Brahmanical law-givers.
AA is true, but R is false ✓ Correct
BA is false, but R is true
CBoth A and R are false
DBoth A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
Correct answer: (A) A is true, but R is false — The assertion is true while the reason is false, so the answer is A is true but R is false.
Explanation
★The assertion is true while the reason is false, so the answer is A is true but R is false.
★Buddhist texts do treat the Nishadas, an aboriginal forest people, as a despised and untouchable group.
★However this attitude does not simply mirror the early Brahmanical law-givers in a one-to-one way.
★The Nishadas were a tribal community of hunters and fishers placed outside the fourfold varna order.
★Untouchability in early India grew from several social currents rather than a single source.
★The reason wrongly reduces a complex social process to the view of one set of lawgivers.
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