Step 1: To form a meaningful sequence, we need to ensure that the clauses are logically connected.
Step 2: The sentence talks about India facing a challenge due to colonial intrusion and how there was an effort to rejuvenate traditional culture. The best logical flow is:
- Q (challenge of colonial intrusion) comes first, as it sets the context.
- S (effort to reinvigorate traditional institutions) logically follows, as it is the response to the challenge.
- P (traditional culture in pre-independence India) comes next to explain what needed revitalization.
- R (developed during the nineteenth century) concludes by explaining when this revitalization effort happened.
Thus, the correct sequence is option (B) Q - S - P - R.
Forthrightness in speech may not always be a desirable quality.
Arrange the following sentences in a coherent order:
(A) Recovery was given inadequate attention and consequently some bank branches regularly incurred heavy losses and their parent bodies had to bale them out.
(B) As a result, banks indulged in extensive lending to borrowers who had little or no potential to make repayments.
(C) To fulfil the social objectives laid down by the masters of nationalisation, banks were asked to lend to identified priority sectors.
(D) 1992-93 results showed that the loss making branches of public sector banks increased from 10,000 to 13,000 and the quantum of losses showed at Rs.3,369 crores.
Write the antonym: Fricassee
Choose the correct words to complete the sentence:
It was so cold that we couldn't go out.