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On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate option. Give reason for your choice.
'That forced my cousin Samsuddin' ...... ' That ' here refers to
Options
world War II
increase in the demand of tamarind seeds
withdrawal of train halt at Rameshwaran station
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'That forced my cousin Samsuddin' ...... ' That ' here refers to withdrawal of train halt at Rameshwaran station .
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WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit –
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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