Paper 1 · Higher Education
Given below are two statements, one labelled Assertion (A) and the other labelled Reason (R). Choose the correct option.
Assertion (A): According to Mark Twain, India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great-grandmother of tradition, and our most valuable and instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
Reason (R): Rishis chanted pious mantras for peace and progress in society, and the Vedas, also called shrutis, created an ecosystem carried forward to ancient universities, so that India created a great heritage and society.
ABoth Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is a correct explanation of Assertion (A) ✓ Correct
BBoth Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true but Reason (R) is not a correct explanation of Assertion (A)
CAssertion (A) is true and Reason (R) is false
DAssertion (A) is false and Reason (R) is true
Correct answer: (A) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is a correct explanation of Assertion (A) — Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) correctly explains (A), so that is the answer.
Explanation
★Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) correctly explains (A), so that is the answer.
★The assertion presents Mark Twain's praise of India as the cradle of civilization.
★The reason describes how the Rishis and the Vedas built India's heritage.
★This heritage from the Vedas is what makes India such a treasured source, as the assertion says.
★So the reason explains why the assertion holds.
★So both are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
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