" This learning process—the embarrassments, the frustrations, the gradual sense of understanding and connection—is invariably transformative."&nbsp;From this sentence, the option A can be inferred. Hence it is incorrect." After all, you can always learn another language and change who you are." From this line, option B can be inferred. Hence it is incorrect."You are what you speak—the words that run throughout your mind are at least as fundamental to your selfhood as is your ethnicity or your gender" From this option D can be inferred. Hence it is incorrect.The author makes no mention about the inherent ability of language to evolve over time to change a person. Hence, it is not responsible for language's ability to change us. Option C is the correct answer.

The author is of the opinion that learning the language of local cultures would help bridge cultural barriers.&nbsp;Option D is against the author's point of view. Hence it is definitely incorrect.&nbsp;Option A is incorrect. The author is of the opinion that the ability to communicate is far more important than the racial divide between two people. Hence it is unlikely to be the view of the author.Option C is incorrect as the author, in the passage is much more concerned about the ability to communicate that racial and gender identity of the person.&nbsp;Option B falls in line with the viewpoint of the author. Hence it is the correct answer.

"And that easily lobbed word—“Orientalist”—hardly captures the complexity of our interactions. What exactly is the dynamic when a man from Missouri observes a Zhejiang native selling lingerie to an Upper Egyptian woman? . . . If all of us now stand beside the same river, speaking in ways we all understand, who’s looking east and who’s looking west? Which way is Oriental?"From the above passage, it is clear that the author consider the word Orientalist an easily lobbied word that does not capture the complex nature of interactions between people of different cultures. The author is of the opinion that if people in different parts of the world all speak in tongues that all of them understand, then the east west divide would be broken.&nbsp;The author is of the opinion that learning new languages would help bridge the east west divide. There is no information provided in the passage that globalization has enabled people learn more languages and thereby mitigated cultural hierarchies and barriers. Hence, option A is incorrect.&nbsp;Option B is incorrect. The author never makes the claim that Orientalism has disappeared for the most part.The author makes no claim about goodwill. Hence option C is incorrect.Option D correctly encapsulates the arguments made by the author. Hence it is the correct answer.

The major idea put forth by the author is that cultural barriers can be broken down and an outsider can ingrain himself with the local culture by learning the language of the culture.The author himself says that an individual who wrestles with a difficult language would learn to be more sympathetic to outsiders. He also says that empathy is not tied to gender and race, and therefore a individual who learns languages is usually empathetic to different races in the world. Thus option B can be inferred from the passage and is incorrect.The passage makes no mention of linguistic politics. Also&nbsp;he is of the opinion&nbsp;that a person's characteristics can be changed for the good by learning another language. Hence option C can be inferred from the author's argument and is incorrect.The word orientalism itself means looking down upon middle eastern countries by the US and European countries. Hence, option D does not make sense.Option A is directly in conflict with the author's main point and that would be the major criticism by the author's critics.&nbsp;Hence it is the correct answer.

From the passage it can be inferred that though the British enjoyed political eminence in India, they felt that they were still marginalised from Indian society, and hence, to bring the Indian state to the same footing, they sought to introduce modernity, which they felt was the next logical step into Indian society.It cannot be inferred from the passage that the British introduced modernity because they believed that the cost of their eminence was not settled. Hence, option A is incorrect.The colonial enterprise tried to introduce the logic of modernity because it felt marginalized, rather than to justify the cost of colonization. Hence option B is incorrect.Option C states that the introduction of modernity developed Indian society. However, the last paragraph states that the exercise proved counterproductive, and there was a development of underdevelopment. Option C is incorrect.Option D best explains the reason for the author introducing the statement mentioned in the question. Hence, option D is the correct answer.

".....empirically inclined theorists of that generation considered the colonies a massive laboratory of utilitarian or other theoretical experiments." From the aforementioned lines, option A can be inferred."What happened was the creation of a degenerate version of capitalism —what early dependency theorists called the ‘development of underdevelopment’." From these lines it can be inferred that, because modernity was imposed upon India by the British, it led to the development of underdevelopment. Option B ca be inferred.From the passage, it can be understood that feudalism underwent a transformative&nbsp;process into capitalism, unlike the Indian transition which happened inorganically through external factors. Hence, option D can be inferred as well.The change in British colonial policy was not induced by resistance to modernity in Indian society, but due to the perception that the British were marginalised in the context of the Indian society. Hence, option C, which cannot be inferred is the correct answer.

".....empirically inclined theorists of that generation considered the colonies a massive laboratory of utilitarian or other theoretical experiments" From these lines option A can be inferred.Consider the lines, "e British colonial state represented the great conquering discourse of Enlightenment rationalism, entering India precisely at the moment of its greatest unchecked arrogance.&nbsp;. As inheritors and representatives of this discourse, which carried everything before it, this colonial state could hardly adopt for long such a self-denying attitude." Option C can be inferred from it.&nbsp;Consider the lines , " It had restructured everything in Europe—the productive system, the political regimes, the moral and cognitive orders—and would do the same in India, " Option D can be inferred from these lines.It is nowhere mentioned in the passage, that British colonialism faces resistence from the existing structural forms of Indian modernity. Hence , option B is the correct answer.

The first part of the passage talks about British colonial policy, which went through two policy phases.Hence, the options B and C which have military power as the introductory idea are incorrect.The second idea mentioned in the passage is about Enlightenment rationalism, of which the British colonizers were inheritors and representatives of.The subsequent ideas are about how&nbsp;modernity was inorganically injected into India by subjecting it to external forces. The passage further talks about how these economic alterations did not give rise to the construction of a classical capitalist economy, but rather led to the development of underdevelopment.Option A mentions all the ideas correctly and hence it is the correct answer.

". Theoretically,because modernity was externally introduced, it is explanatorily unhelpful to apply the logical format of the ‘transition process’ to this pattern of change."From the given lines it can be understood that the general endogeneous method of the process of transition could not be accepted to British colonialisation of India, because modernity did not occur naturally but was externally introduced.The passage only states that initiatives for modernity were introduced to India through external sources. It does not state that all colonised societies cannot be changed by logic. Hence this option is incorrect.In the case of India, the transformational agents themselves are inorganic external forces. Hence, option C cannot be inferred.&nbsp;The passage nowhere states that Indian society is exogamous. Hence option D is incorrect.Option B best describes the conclusion that can be drawn from the author's statement. Hence it is the correct answer.

"In the post-colonial fervour of the 20th century, coastal capitals picked by trade-focused empires were spurned for “regionally neutral” new ones".From these lines, it can be inferred that the colonial empires had their capitals in the coasts as the empires were mostly focused&nbsp;on&nbsp;trade. It goes on to say that, post - colonisation, empires had their capitals changed to&nbsp;regionally neutral areas.Hence, it can be directly inferred that colonies had capitals in coasts to promote their trading interests.Option B is the correct answer.

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<div><p>According to the passage, which of the following is not responsible for language&rsquo;s ability to change us?</p></div>

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<div><p>A French ethnographer decides to study the culture of a Nigerian tribe. Which of the following is most likely to be the view of the author of the passage?</p></div>

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<div><p>Which of the following can be inferred from the author&rsquo;s claim, &ldquo;Which way is Oriental?&rdquo;</p></div>

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<div><p>The author&rsquo;s critics would argue that:</p></div>

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<div><p>&ldquo;Consequently, the colonial state could not settle simply for eminence at the cost of its marginality; it began to take initiatives to introduce the logic of modernity into Indian society.&rdquo; Which of the following best captures the sense of this statement?</p></div>

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<div><p>All of the following statements, if true, could be seen as supporting the arguments in the passage, EXCEPT:</p></div>

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<div><p>All of the following statements about British colonialism can be inferred from the first paragraph, EXCEPT that it:</p></div>

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<div><p>Which one of the following 5-word sequences best captures the flow of the arguments in the passage?</p></div>

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<div><p>Which of the following observations is a valid conclusion to draw from the author&rsquo;s statement that &ldquo;the logical structure of endogenous change does not apply here. Here transformation agendas attack as an external force&rdquo;?</p></div>

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<div><p>According to the passage, colonial powers located their capitals:</p></div>