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2.Read the passage given below Every day before the sun rises, almost all the villagers of Alinaqipalem in Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district set off for work with their lunch boxes and tool kits. Work could take them to Vijaywada, Challapalli or Machilipatnam, where they will lay stone and cement for homes and buildings all day and return home by sunset. They have been doing this for generations now, for Alinaquipalem is a mason’s village, with almost all the 450 odd families here involved in construction work. In fact, till a few years ago, they were all masons without exception, but they are beginning to take up other professions slowly. The remote and idyllic Alinaqipalem has another distinction – the village has only Shia families. Surrounding villages call it “Turakapalem” or the village of Muslims. According to a general belief, AbulHasanQutb Shah, ruler of Golconda and the last of QutbShahi dynasty, invited Mullah Mohammed Ali from Isfahan in Iran to come to India to teach his children. This was some 330 years ago. The Mullah’s eldest son, Haider Ali NaqiIsfahani and two families, later settled down in this part of Krishna. They were soon followed by more families and a small hub of Shias had emerged gradually. The village derives its name from the first settler and is called Alinaqipalem or Ali Naqi’s village. Over the years, the villagers married local people, lost their Iranian features and forgot their mother tongue. Today, no one understands or speaks Persian or Arabic, except the two Imams who offer prayers in the village’s two Mosques.The only thing remotely Iranian are the occasional posters of Ayatollah Khomeini that one comes across every now and then on the walls, “Khomeini is our religious leader, so the photographs,” said Mirza Mohammed Ali, 69, a village politician. Answer the questions given below:

i.Where do villagers of Alinaqipalem go for work?
ii.How does Alinaqipalem differ from other villages?
iii.What changes occur to Alinaqipalem villagers over a period of time.
iv.Name their religious leader.
v. The village, Alinaqipalem, is named after whom?

Answer 1

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