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GATE 2017 EE – Question 6

General Aptitude · Verbal Aptitude: Reading Comprehension and Reasoning · 2 marks · Multiple choice

"The hold of the nationalist imagination on our colonial past is such that anything inadequately or improperly nationalist is just not history."

Which of the following statements best reflects the author's opinion?

  1. Nationalists are highly imaginative.
  2. History is viewed through the filter of nationalism.
  3. Our colonial past never happened.
  4. Nationalism has to be both adequately and properly imagined.

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Correct answer: (B) History is viewed through the filter of nationalism.

Explanation

The author says nationalist imagination has such a hold on our view of the colonial past that anything not nationalist enough is not counted as history. That means history is seen through the filter of nationalism.