Read the following comprehension carefully and answer the questions accordingly. Mahatma Gandhi believed that industrialisation was no answer to the problems that plague the mass of India's poor and that villagers should be taught to be self-sufficient in food, weave their own cloth from cotton and eschew the glittering prizes that the 20th century so temptingly offers. Such an idyllic and rural paradise did not appear to those who inherited the reins of political power.
Solution
We find this in the paragraph: "Villagers should be self-sufficient in food, weave their own cloth, and eschew [avoid] glittering prizes."
The passage, therefore, explicitly states Gandhi's vision that villagers should produce their own food (self-sufficiency in food), weave their own cloth (self-sufficiency in clothing), and reject materialism ("eschew the glittering prizes").
This aligns perfectly with option B, which emphasises economic independence (food/cloth production) and simple living (anti-consumerism).
The other options do not capture this . Option A (Rapid Industrialisation) directly contradicts Gandhi's critique of INdustrialisation in the passage. Option C ( bringing to the villages the glittering prizes of the 20 th century) is wrong because the text calls these glittering prizes as temptations to avoid, not the basis of paradise. Option D( supporting those holdings powerful political positions) is also wrong because "political power" is irrelevant to the discussion here, which is around villagers' autonomy.
Thus, option (b) is the correct answer.
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