Question

Which of the following statements is least likely to be inferred from the passage:

• A. Younger generations of Indians are more tolerant of foreign scribes who write about their country
• B. The writer believes that a section of Indian intelligentsia is very hostile to upward economic mobility
• C. Mr.William Dalrymple has been accused of recolonising India through this writngs
• D. Most of the criticism that has been recently directed at Patrick French has emphasized mainly on the writer's underwhelming literary style

Answer 1

Answer: (C), (D)

The correct options are
C Mr.William Dalrymple has been accused of recolonising India through this writngs
D Most of the criticism that has been recently directed at Patrick French has emphasized mainly on the writer's underwhelming literary style

The opening sentence of the passage, 'In recent weeks the writers William Dalrymple and Patrick French, among others, have come before a fusillade of criticism in India, much of it questioning not their facts, not their interpretations, but their foreignness', never hints the literary style of Patrick French. Therefore option (d) is least likely to be inferred from the passage.