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The Voice had to be listened to, not only on account of its form but for the matter which it delivered. It gave a message...

The Voice had to be listened to, not only on account of its form but for the matter which it delivered. It gave a message to the country that it needed greatly. It brought to the common people a realization of their duty to concern themselves with their affairs. The common people were made to take an interest in the manner in which they were governed in the taxes they paid in the return they got from those taxes. This interest in public affairs— politics as you may call it—was to be the concern no longer of the highly educated few but of the many—the poor, the propertyless, the working-men in town and country. Politics was not to be the concern of a small aristocracy of intellect or property of the masses. And with the change in the subjects of politics that Voice brought about also a change in the objects of politics. Till then politics had busied itself mainly with the machinery of Government towards making its personnel more and more native, with proposals for a better distribution of political power, with protests against the sins of omission and of commission of the administration. This Voice switched politics on to concern for the needs of the common people. The improvement of the lot of the poor was to be the main concern of politics and the politician. The improvement, especially of the lives of the people of the neglected villages, was to be placed before Governments and political organizations as the goal of all political endeavour. The raising of the standard of living of the people of the villages, the finding of subsidiary occupations which would give the agricultural poor work for their enforced leisure during the off season and an addition to their exiguous income, the improvement of the housing of the poor, the sanitation of the villages — these were to be the objectives to be kept in view. In the towns, the slums and cherics were to receive special attention. There was especially a class of the poor for which that compassionate voice pleaded and protested. This was for the so-called depressed class, the outcastes of Hindu society. The denial of elementary human rights to this class of people it considered the greatest blot on Hindu society and history. It raised itself in passionate protest against the age-old wrongs of this class and forced those that listened to it to endeavour to remove the most outrageous of them like untouchability. It caused a revolution in Hindu religious practice by having Hindu temples thrown open to these people. It made the care of them a religious duty of the Hindus by re-naming them Harijans.

Questions
a) Give the main reason as to why people had to listen to the Voice

b) Why was politics by the highly educated few no longer appealing?

c) In note more than 60 words, summarize the changes brought about in the objects of politics.
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d) Politics was not to be the concern of a small aristocracy of intellect or property of the masses.
(Rewrite the sentence adding a question tag.

e) Explain the genesis of the Hindu religious revolution.
f) What’s the author’s attitude towards the new voice.
g) What was unique about the outcasts of Hindu society?
h) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrase as used in the passage
) Exiguous income
b) Endeavour
c) Compassionate
d) Elementary

Answers

Lydia
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(a) Before (2 marks

-Tony wakes up with a pain (in his right loin) v 1 mark

-After struggling (for about an hour), he wakes up his brother.v1 mark After (2 marks

-Weary parents come back home.v1 mark -Nobody dares to ask questions.v1

-The children are informed that Tony had an operation.v1
b) The unspeakable could not be added.v1 mark

c) Cordial- “Aoro was climbing walls with fear and worry”, when Tony is taken to hospital. (Award after illustration) v2 marks

d) Elizabeth was always alert in case something happened to her children.v2 marks

e) Vera is concerned while Becky is undisturbed. Vera admonishes Aoro for not informing her of Tony’s illness in time while Becky continues to lie in bed. (Contrast must be brought out)

f) Parenting/family

-how Mark/Elizabeth handle their sick child.

g) i) Runs away from home.

ii) Marries secretly.

iii) Leads a promiscuous life. Any four 1 x 4marks iv) Contracts HIV.

v) Engages her sister in a fight.

h) His sisters with the death like slumber.. of the young.v1 mark

i) When he comes from the hospital, nobody dares ask him a question. The children look at him with round fearful eyes.v2 marks

j) It inspires Aoro to study medicine and later becomes a surgenon.v2 marks

k) Becky wanted to know what the ugly boy wanted. v1 mark
lydiajane74 answered the question on January 23, 2018 at 07:13

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