Reading Comprehension (Unseen) Passage Set - 3

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Reading Comprehension (Unseen) Passage Set - 3

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :-

Sixty years after independence, the caste question looms large in our consciousness. Far from being abolished, the caste system is at the centre of many debates of the day. Whether it is the larger question of the importance of caste in electoral politics, reservations, whether caste should be part of the census or not or the outrage over the Khap panchayat's actions, it is clear that caste is an arena of contention even today. There is a part of India which sees caste as an outdated institution that needs to be erased from all our calculations. It sees caste as a blight on modernity, a pathogen that infects us. Caste binds us to a collective rooted in the past and imposes on individuals a destiny that is not of their making. Caste hierarchy makes our future contingent on our birth, and those less fortunately born are condemned to a life more ordinary.  What makes this more complex is the accelerated attempt to reverse history by the device of reservations which allocate opportunities purposively to the lower castes. This makes the distaste for caste even greater in the educated middle class, who see it as an instrument created for use specifically against them. The advantages that have accrued to this group have been internalized and neutralized and only the disadvantages loom threateningly, particularly as the lower castes accumulate political power. 

A) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write 'T' for True and 'F' for False :- 

i) The uneducated middle class see caste system as an instrument used against them. 

ii) Even after sixty years of independence caste system remains at the centre of many debates.

iii) A  part of India wishes to erase caste system. 

iv) As the lower class accumulates political power, the disadvantages of caste system loom threateningly. 

B) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words :- 

i) How does the cast issue prove its importance on Indian society even sixty years after independence? 

ii) Why does a part of India see caste as an outdated institution? 

iii) What happens when caste system is viewed as an accelerated attempt to reverse history?