| Board | UP Board |
| Text book | NCERT |
| Class | 11th |
| Subject | English |
| Chapter | Chapter 5 |
| Chapter name | THE VARIETY AND UNITY OF INDIA |
| Chapter Number | Number 3 Explanations |
| Category | English PROSE Class 11th |
| UP Board Syllabus Chapter 5 Class 11th English (Prose) |
Q. Explain with reference to the context of the following passages :
- The diversity of India is tremendous; it is obvious; it lies on the surface and anybody can see it. It concerns itself with physical appearance as well as with
certain mental habits and traits. There is little in common, to outward seeming. between the Pathan of the North-West and the Tamil in the far South
Reference
Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘The Variety and Unity of India‘ written by Jawahar Lal Nehru.
Context
Context: Here Pandit Nehru explains the variety found among people of India.
Explanation
Explanation: The writer explains that India is one nation even then there are 30 many differences. The people differ in shape and figure. The mentaltendencies of Indian communities and their unities and their behaviour also differ. The Pathans live in the
North-West of India while the Tamils live in the far South. To an ordinary me there is nothing common in between the Pathans and the Tamils because of the very distant and different places. Still there is something common between a Pathan and a Tamil.
- There was something living and dynamic about this heritage which showed itself in ways ofliving and a philosophical attitude of life and its problems. Ancient
India, like ancient China, was a world in itself a culture and a civilization which gave shape to all things. Foreign influences poured and often influenced that culture and were absorbed. Disruptive tendencies gave rise immediately to attempt to find a synthesis.
Reference
Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘The Variety and Unity of India’, written by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehtu.
Context
Context: In these lines Pt. Nehru writes that India has people of different races and faiths. They have always been one as Indians. Here the writer tells us how
unity was made possible.
Explanation
Explanation: There were certain ways of living of Indians. They looked at life and its problems with philosophy. This was that they had received from their ancestors. It was alive and forceful. Ancient China was complete in itself. In the same way India was also complete in itself. Their culture and civilization had good effect on everything. The culture and influences from other countries came in
Sometimes they had some effect on the culture of India. They were soon taken into the old culture. Sometimes there were factors which would break up the culture.
But at once people tried to find out means which would combine all into one.
- Some kind of a dream of unity has occupied the mind of India since the dawn of civilization. That unity was not conceived as something imposed from outside, a standardization of externals or even of beliefs. It was something deeper and within its fold the widest tolerance of belief and custom was practised and every variety acknowledged and even encouraged..
Reference
Reference: Those lines have been taken from the lesson “The Variety and Unity of India’, written by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru.
Context
Context: Foreign Influences had some effect on India. There were also inclinations to break and weaken India. But India always became united. Here India’s spirit of unity has been described.
Explanation
Explanation: Foreign influences came to India. Sometimes there were factors which appeared to break up the people into groups. But it was never possible
India has always felt the presence of unity. This has been there from the beginning of the civilization. It was not considered something forced by foreign influence.
was an attempt to combine outward facts or faiths. It was deeper than that. Tolerarion was used. All customs, practices and every kind of knowledge was accepted.
- Differences, big or small, can always be noticed even within a nations group, however, closely bound together it may be. The essential unity of the group becomes apparent when it is compared to another national group, thou of ten the differences between two adjoining groups fade out or Interrningle med frontiers, and modem developments are tending to produce a certain uniform
everywhere.
Reference
Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson “The Variety and Unio of India’, written by Pt. J. L. Nehru.
Context
Context: National groups may have differences but they are essentially united. Here Pt. Nehru tells us about this unity.
Explanation
Explanation : National groups, evenwhen they are firmly united have some difference. We can see differences. But every group is fundamentally united. We can see this unity if we compare a national group to another national group. But neighbouring groups are becoming very similar. They mix with one another and the differences between them come to an end. No marked difference can be seen at the places where the boundaries meet. Then there are new developments in the present age. They try to bring about some similarity in every nation
| UP Board Syllabus Chapter 5 Class 11th English (Prose) |