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3) Read the passage below and then answer the questions which follow it.

The Voice had to be listened to, not only on account of its form but for the matter

which it delivered. It gave a message to the country that it needed greatly. It brought

to the common people a realization of their duty to concern themselves with their

affairs. The common people were made to take an interest in the manner in which

they were governed, in the taxes they paid, in the return they got from those taxes.

This interest in public affair-politics as you my call it- was to be the concern no longer

of the highly educated few but of the many-the poor, the property less, the working

men in town and country. Politics was not to be the concern of the small aristocracy

of intellect or property of the masses. And with the change in the subjects of politics

that Voice brought about also a change in the objects of politics. Till then politics had

busied itself mainly with the machinery of Government towards making it personnel

more and more native, with proposals for a better distribution of political power, with

protests against the sins of omission and of commission of the administration. This

voice switched politics on to concern for the needs of the common people. The

improvement of the lot of the poor was to be the main concern of politics and the

politician. The improvement, especially of the lives of the people of the neglected

villages, was to be placed before Governments and political organizations as the goal

of all political endeavour. The raising of the standard of living of the people of the

villages, the finding of subsidiary occupations which would give the agricultural poor

work for their enforced leisure during the off season and an addition to their exiguous

income, the improvement of the housing of the poor. The sanitation of the villagesthese were to be the objectives to be kept in view. In the towns, the slums and cheries

were to receive especial attention. There was especially a class of the poor for which

that compassionate Voice pleaded and protested this was for the so-called depressed

class, the outcastes of Hindu society. The denial of elementary human rights to this

class of people is considered the greatest blot on Hindu society and history. It raised

itself in passionate protest against the age-old wrongs of this class and forced those

that listened to it to endeavour to remove the most outrageous of them like

untouchability. It caused a revolution in Hindu religious practice by having Hindu

temples thrown open to these people. It made the care of them a religious duty of the

Hindus by re-naming them Harijans.

-Mr. Ruthnasami

Questions- 2x5=10

1) Why had people to listen to “The Voice” of Mahatma Gandhi?

2) Why had people to take an interest in politics?

3) What was the change brought about in the objects of politics?

4) What improvements were made for the common man?

5) Explain:-

a) Sins of omission and of commission of the administration.

b) No longer the monopoly of the classes, but the property of the masses

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