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The seed of Indian Writing in English was sown during the period of the British rule in India. Now the seed has blossomed into an evergreen tree, with fragrant flowers and ripe fruits. The fruits are being tasted not only by the native people, but they are also being 'chewed and digested' by the foreigners. It happened only after constant care, pruning and feeding.

Indian English Literature is an honest enterprise to demonstrate the ever rare gems of Indian Writing in English. From being a singular and exceptional, rather gradual native flare - up of geniuses, Indian Writing has turned out to be a new form of Indian culture and voice in which India converses regularly. Indian writers poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists have been making momentous and considerable contributions to world literature since the Pre Independence era. The past few years have witnessed a gigantic prospering and thriving of Indian English Writing in the global market.

Indian English Literature has attained an independent status in the realm of world literature. Wide ranges of themes are dealt with by Indian writing in English. While this literature continues to reflect Indian culture, tradition, social values and even Indian history through the depiction of life in India and Indians living elsewhere, recent Indian English fiction has been trying to give expression to the Indian experience of modern predicaments.

According to the passage, Indian Writing in English dealt with the themes of:

(A) how the seed of Indian writing in English was sown during colonial rule.

(B) Indian culture, tradition and social values

(C) Indian history through the depiction of life in India and Indians living elsewhere

(D) Indian experience of modern predicaments.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A), (B) and (D) only

(B), (C) and (D) only

(B) and (D) only

✅ Correct Option: 2

Option 1 -> Includes (A) which describes the historical origin of Indian English Writing, not a theme it deals with.

Option 2 -> (B), (C) and (D) are all explicitly mentioned in paragraph 3 as themes: "Indian culture, tradition, social values," "Indian history through the depiction of life in India and Indians living elsewhere," and "Indian experience of modern predicaments."

Option 3 -> Excludes (C), but the passage clearly states Indian Writing deals with "Indian history through the depiction of life in India and Indians living elsewhere."

Option 4 -> Excludes (B), but the passage explicitly mentions that this literature "continues to reflect Indian culture, tradition, social values."

Hence, Option 2: (B), (C) and (D) only -> The third paragraph clearly identifies these three as themes dealt with by Indian Writing in English. Statement (A) describes the historical context of when Indian English Writing began, not a theme that the literature explores -> correct

Question 9

What does the enterprise of Indian English Literature exhibit?

Question 10

Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word :

Indian writers - poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists have been making momentous and considerable contributions to world literature.

Question 12

Indian writers have been making considerable contributions to world literature since:

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