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Mahatma Gandhi believed that industrialisation was no answer to the problems that plagued 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.

Mahatma Gandhi's views opposed industrialisation of villages because

A.

it would help the poor and not the rich

B.

it would take away the skill of the villagers

C.

it would affect the culture of the Indians

D.

it would undermine self-sufficiency and destroy the beauty of life of the villager

Correct answer is B

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