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The questions in this section are based on a single passage. The questions
are to be answered on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.

Please note that for some of the questions, more than one of the
choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to
choose the best answer; that is, the response that most accurately
and completely answers the question.


Passage for Questions 1 to 10

In 1954, a Bombay economist named A.D. Shroff began a Forum of Free
Enterprise, whose ideas on economic development were somewhat at
odds with those then influentially articulated by the Planning
Commission of the Government of India. Shroff complained against the
‘indifference, if not discouragement’ with which the state treated
entrepreneurs.

At the same time as Shroff, but independently of him, a journalist named
Philip Spratt was writing a series of essays in favour of free enterprise.
Spratt was a Cambridge communist who was sent by the party in 1920s to
foment revolution in the subcontinent. Detected in the act, he spent many
years in an Indian jail. The books he read in the prison, and his marriage to
an Indian woman afterwards, inspired a steady move rightwards. By the
1950s, he was editing a pro-American weekly from Bangalore, called
MysIndia. There he inveighed against the economic policies of the
government of India. These, he said, treated the entrepreneur ‘as a
criminal who has dared to use his brains independently of the state to
create wealth and give employment’. The state’s chief planner, P.C.
Mahalanobis, had surrounded himself with Western leftists and Soviet
academicians, who reinforced his belief in ‘rigid control by the
government over all activities’. The result, said Spratt, would be ‘the
smothering of free enterprise, a famine of consumer goods, and the tying
down of millions of workers to soul-deadening techniques.’

The voices of men like Spratt and Shroff were drowned in the chorus of
popular support for a model of heavyindustrialization funded and directed by
the governments. The 1950s were certainly not propitious times for free
marketers in India. But from time to time their ideas were revived. After the
rupee was devalued in 1966, there were some moves towards freeing the
trade regime, and hopes that the licensing system would also be
liberalized. However, after Indira Gandhi split the Congress Party in 1969,
her government took its ‘left turn’, nationalizing a fresh range of industries
and returning to economic autarky.

1. Which of the following statements can most reasonably be
inferred from the information available in

the passage:

(a) P.C. Mahalanobis believed in empowering private entrepreneurs and
promoting free market.

(b) Philip Spratt preferred plans that would create economic conditions
favourable for a forward march

by the private enterprise.

(c) Restrictions on free markets enriched large Indian companies.

(d) Philip Spratt opposed the devaluation of rupee in 1966.

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

(a) Acceptance of A.D. Shroff’s plans in the official circles smothered free
enterprise in India.

(b) The views of the Forum of Free Enterprise ran against the conception of
development then prevalent

among the policy makers.

(c) A.D. Shroff believed that state should actively support the private sector.

(d) Philip Spratt had been educated in Cambridge.

3. Select the statement that best captures the central purpose of this
passage



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