UP Board live solution class 10th English (Prose) Lesson-3 "THE GANGA" by "JAWAHARLAL NEHRU"

Passage

[1].

I have received so much love and affection from the Indian people that nothing that I can do can repay even a small fraction of it and indeed there can be no repair ment of so precious a think as affiction. Many have been admired some have been rewarded but the affection of our classes of the Indian people has come to me in such a way that it makes sure that I have been overwhelmed by it. I can only express the hope that in the remaining years I am may live I shall not be unworthy of my people and their affection.

To innumerable comrades and colleagues, I own and even deeper dept of gratitude. We have been join partners in great undertakings and have shared the stamps and Sarah which in which table e accompanied them.

When I die I should like my body to be cremated if I die in a foreign country my body should be cremated there and my ashes send to Allahabad a small handful of these ashes should be true in the Ganga and the major portion of the game disposed of in the manager indicated below no part of these ashes should be retained of preserved.

Questions --

1.What is the most precious gift that the other has received from his country man ?

2.What has overwhelmed the writer of the lesson?

3.What does the author on to his comrades and colleagues?

4.What is the writer of in the remaining years of his life?

5.What is the desire of the writer after his death?

6.Where should I hate ashes be sent in case in dies in a foreign country?

7.Write the name of the lesson from which the above noted piece has been taken Who is the author of the lesson?

Answer-

1.The most precious gift that the author has received from his countrymen is their love and affection.

2.The affection of all classes of Indian people has overwhelmed the writer.

3.The author on depart dept of gratitude to his comrades and colleges because they had been join partners in great words and in triumphs and sorrows

4.The writer hope that in the remaining years of his life he would not be anniversary of people and their affection.

5.The writer desired that after his death his body should be cremated where he dies.

6.Died in a foreign country he will that his body should be cremated there and his ashes be sent to Allahabad

7.The above passage note pieces has been taken from the lesson the Ganga the authur of this lesson is jawaharlal Nehru.

Passage

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Questions--

1.Write the name of the lesson from which the above passage has been taken Who is the author of a lesson ?

2.Why has Nehru discarded much of the past traditions ?

3.What does the author want India to get rid himself of?

4.What is the write conscious of?

5.What gift inspiration to the writer?

6.What is the homage of the author to India's culture inheritance?

Answers--

1.The above passage has been taken from the lesson the Ganga the author of this lesson is jawaharlal Nehru.

2.Nehru has discarded much of part traditions and customs because they bind and constrained India and divide her people.

3.The Arthur wants India to get the attention of all that bind and custom paint and divine her people.

4.The writer conscious of daddy hi to light all offers a link in the unbroken chain which goes back to the draw of history in the memorial past of India.

5.The unbroken chain gives inspiration to writer.

6.The author would not break the unbroken chain which goes back to the draught of history in the memorial past of India

Long Answer Type Questions

1. What did the Ganga mean to jawaharlal Nehru?

Or Why was Nehruji so attached to the Ganga?

Or What did the Ganga remind Nehru of?

Or Why does Nehru call the Ganga the river of India?

Ans. The Ganga and the jamuna meant a lot to jawaharlal Nehru. He had been attached to them ever since his childhood. His attachment had grown with years. He had watched their changing moods with the change of seasons. They had been a source of great inspiration for him. Attachment to the Ganga was not religious. Instead it was historical.

Nehru calls the Ganga 'the river of India' because it is loved by her people. The songs of indias victories, defeats, racial memories, hopes and fears are interwoven round the Ganga. It is also a symbol of India's Age-long culture and civilization which have ever been changing and ever-flowing like the Ganga.

The Ganga reminds Nehru of the snow-covered peaks and the deep valleys of the Himalayas which he loved so much and of the rich and vast plains below, where his life and work had been shaped.

2. Why did Nehru want his ashes to be scattered over the fields of India?

Or what does pandit Nehru desire to be done to his body after his death?

Or In what way, did Nehru desire his ashes to be disposed of?

Ans. According to his will, pandit Nehru wanted as under

When he should die, his body should be cremated.

A handful of his ashes should be thrown in the Ganga at Allahabad. He made it clear that it was only due to his intense love for the Ganga and the jamuna since his childhood.

The major portion of his ashes should be scattered over the fields of India, so that the ashes of his body should be mixed in the soil of India of which it was made.

3. What does pandit Nehru say about the river Ganga and her different moods in different seasons?

Ans. Pandit jawaharlal Nehru says about the Ganga that he loved it very much and was badly attached to her. He has watched it's varying moods as the seasons changed, and have often thought of the history and myth and tradition and song and story that have become attached to them through the long ages and become part of its flowing waters. Smiling and dancing in the morning sunlight, and the dark and gloomy and full of mystery as the evening Shadows fall, slow and graceful stream in winter and vast roaring thing during the monsoon, broad bosomed almost age the sea.

Short Answer Type Questions

1. To Nehru what was the most precious gift? Who gave it to him in plenty? What did he hope for?

Or What was the most precious gift to Nehru?

Ans. The love and affection of his countrymen was the most precious gift to Nehru. All the classes of people gave it to him in plenty. He hoped that in the remaining years that he may live, he shall not be unworthy of his people and their affection.

2. What does the Ganga symbolize?

Ans. The Ganga symbolizes India's age long culture and civilization.

3. Can pandit Nehru repay the love and affection of Indian people? Why or why not?

Ans. Pandit Nehru can not repay the love and affection of Indian people because he has nothing to repay so precious a thing.

4. Why does Nehru call the Ganga 'the river of India'?

Ans. Nehru calls the Ganga 'the river of India' because it has been the symbol of India's culture and civilization. It reminds us of the hopes, fears, successes and defeats of the people of India.

5. Why did Nehru want the major portion of his ashes scattered over the fields of India?

Ans. Nehru wanted the major portion of his ashes scattered over the fields of India so that they should be mixed in the soil of India of which it was made.

6. What, according to Nehru, should India get rid of?

Ans. According to Nehru, India should get rid of the past traditions and customs that bind, divide and suppress her people. They prevent the free development of one's body and spirit.

7. How was Nehru attached to the Ganga?

Ans. Nehru had been watching the Ganga and the jamuna at Allahabad closely since his childhood. He had watched their moods all these years. So he was greatly attached to these rivers.

8. What did Nehru receive from Indian people?

Ans. Nehru received love and affection from Indian people.

9. What was Nehru unable to repay to the Indian people?

Ans. Nehru was unable to repay the love and affection which he received from the Indian people.

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