Question

From the given options, choose the one that completes the
paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Jawaharlal Nehru seemed an unlikely candidate to lead India
towards its vision. Under the cotton Khadi he wore in deference to
the dictates of Congress, he remained the quintessential English
gentleman. In a land of mysteries, he was a cool rationalist. The
mind that had exulted in the discovery of science at Cambridge
never ceased to be appalled by his fellow Indians who refused to stir
from their homes on days proclaimed inauspicious by their favourite
astrologers. He was a publicly declared agnostic in the most
intensely spiritual area in the world, and he never ceased to
proclaim the horror the word 'religion' inspired in him. Nehru
despised India's priests, her sadhus, her chanting monks and pious
'skerkhs'.

(1) And yet, the India of those sadhus and the superstition-haunted
masses had accepted Nehru.
(2) They had only served, he felt, to impede her progress.
(3) The Mahatma had made it clear that it was on his shoulders that he
wished his mantle to fall.
(4) Nehru's heart told him to follow the Mahatma and his heart, he would
later admit, had been right.

Answer 1

2 is your Answer.....