History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET June 2019 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 given below.
Assertion (A): Nationalist historical writing saw the bipolarity of the spiritual content of Indian culture and the materialist basis of Western culture as an essential and inherent difference.
Reason (R): This was in part a reaction to the view that religion was such a central factor in the traditional society of India that it distracted from progress.
ABoth A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct
BBoth A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
CA is true, but R is false
DA is false, but R is true
Correct answer: (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A — Both are true and R explains A, so the answer is both true with R explaining A.
Explanation
★Both are true and R explains A, so the answer is both true with R explaining A.
★Nationalist writing stressed the spiritual content of Indian culture against the materialism of the West.
★It treated this bipolarity as an essential and inherent difference.
★This stance was in part a reaction to a colonial view of Indian society.
★That view held that religion so dominated Indian society that it blocked progress.
★So this reaction explains the nationalist emphasis, and R is the correct explanation of A.
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