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GATE 2021 XH2 – Question 53

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Interdisciplinary Fields: Cultural studies, film and media studies, memory and trauma studies, Dalit and subaltern studies, environmental, medical and digital humanities · 2 marks · Multiple choice

Assertion P: Dalit narratives are often read one-dimensionally as objects of pity at caste humiliation, heroic protests against discrimination or rises from misery to triumph. Assertion Q: There is a tendency to keep the Other permanently exotic and different. Which relation is justified?

  1. P and Q contradict each other.
  2. P and Q are compatible.
  3. P and Q cannot be related.
  4. Q is the only explanation of P.

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Correct answer: (B) P and Q are compatible.

Explanation

Both assertions describe reductive ways of treating marginalised experience: P lists narrow narrative templates and Q names the broader tendency to fix the Other as different. They can therefore hold together, B. Compatibility neither establishes contradiction nor proves Q is the sole possible cause of P.

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