Question

A 1.
Section - I ( Prose)
Que 1 (A) :
(12 Marks)
Read the first activity, read the (seen) extract and then do all the activities.
(02)
Select & Write 2 Correct Statements that deals with the Exact Theme of Extract.
1) The extract tells that Democracy is not a good form of government like India-
2) The extract deals with the ways and methods to maintain the Democracy.
3) The extract tells that a Nation can be grateful at the cost of its liberty.
4) The extract tells that the hero worship in Democracy leads to dictatorship.
if we wish to maintain democracy not merely in form, but also in fact, what must we do?
The first thing in my judgement we must do is to hold fast to constitutional methods of achieving our
social and economic objectives. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving
economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods.
But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional
methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned,
the better for us.
The second thing we must do is to observe the caution which John Stuart Mill has given
to all who are interested in the maintenance of democracy, namely, not "to lay their liberties at the feet
of even a great man, or to trust him with powers which enable him to subvert their institutions." There
is nothing wrong in being grateful to great men who have rendered life-long services to the country. But
there are limits to gratefulness. As has been well said by the Irish Patriot Daniel O'Connel, ‘No man can
be grateful at the cost of his honour, no woman can be grateful at the cost of her chastity and no nation
can be grateful at the cost of its liberty' This caution is far more necessary in the case of India than in
the case of any other country, for in India, Bhakti or what may be called the path of devotion or hero-
worship, plays a part in its politics unequalled in magnitude by the part it plays in the politics of any
other country in the world. Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics,
Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship.​

Answer 1

Answer:

of the soul. But in politics,

Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure

Explanation:

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worship, plays a part in its politics unequalled in magnitude by the part it plays in the politics of any

other country in the world. Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics,

Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship