GATE PI · 2017 · GA
Question 61: Verbal Aptitude
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Question 61
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“If you are looking for a history of India, or for an account of the rise and fall of the British Raj, or for the reason of the cleaving of the subcontinent into two mutually antagonistic parts and the effects this mutilation will have in the respective sections, and ultimately on Asia, you will not find it in these pages; for though I have spent a lifetime in the country, I lived too near the seat of events, and was too intimately associated with the actors, to get the perspective needed for the impartial recording of these matters”.
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GATE PI 2017 · Paper 1
Production and Industrial Engineering · Original paper archive
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- General Aptitude
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- Multiple choice (MCQ)
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- 2 marks
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