History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET September 2013 History
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below.
Assertion (A): Francis Buchanan's tours of Mysore and Eastern India, and Colin Mackenzie's tours of Southern India, can be said to have inaugurated an era of scientific understanding of India based on detailed local knowledge.
Reason (R): Both Buchanan and Mackenzie paid attention to India's distinctiveness, such as the caste system, in a careful and systematic way.
ABoth A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
BBoth A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct
CA is true, but R is false
DA is false, but R is true
Correct answer: (B) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A — Both statements are true but the reason does not fully explain the assertion, so the answer is both true with R not explaining A.
Explanation
★Both statements are true but the reason does not fully explain the assertion, so the answer is both true with R not explaining A.
★Buchanan and Mackenzie did begin a new era of detailed local survey of India.
★Their careful tours gathered rich knowledge of regions, people and customs.
★Both men also paid close attention to features like the caste system.
★This interest in India's distinctiveness is true in its own right.
★But that interest alone does not fully explain the scientific era they began.
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