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2. Read the following passage carefully: I lived with Indian friends old and new. I realised that all the ills of India could have been mended easily if there had been a Government whose purpose was first of all to benefit the people rather than to live upon them. The dry country, for example, the fruitless land between Mumbai and Chennai, was already famished, although it was only February. The sun was hot enough and any seed could grow, if there had been water. And why was there no water? Why nơt sink tubewells, or even dig shallow wells, since 1 was told, the water level was high? But the people were weak and exhausted. They did not have the strength or will to do so after the years of foreign rule. It was even more than that. The worst of foreign rule is that the people do not work to help themselves. There were always the British to blame. The blame was not always just, but largely it was just. When the heart of a people is gone, their spirit too dies with it. On the basis of the reading of the passage, answer the questions in brief:

1. What was wrong with the Government in India during the British days?
2. What happens to the strength of people under foreign rule?
3. "When the heart of a people is gone, their spirit too dies with it." What does the author want to say?
4. What should be the aim of a government?
5. Find out the word in the above passage which means extremely hungry. ​

Answer 1

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Revolutionary violence had already been a concern in British India; consequently, in 1915, to strengthen its powers during what it saw was a time of increased vulnerability, the Government of India passed the Defence of India Act 1915, which allowed it to intern politically dangerous dissidents without due process, and ...

Government: British Colonial Government