Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay Solutions for Chapter: Paragraph Jumbles, Exercise 2: Type II

Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.

A. At a more fundamental level, the idea that romantic love is the most suitable basis for a long-term relationship is not as automatic as it might appear.
B. For a long time, in a lot of cultures, and even now in some, marriage too is a relationship we do not personally control.
C. This view of marriage works best in contexts where the idea of the individual is not fully developed. People live in a sticky collective and individuality is blurred.
D. Marriage is the only significant kinship tie that we enter into by choice.
E. We don't choose our parents, our relatives, or our children—these are cards that are dealt out to us.
F. A young Saraswat Brahmin boy, earning in four figures was sufficient as a description and one such person was broadly substitutable with another.

Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.

A. As the role of the individual increases and as dimensions of individuality get fleshed out in ever newer ways, marriage must account for these changes.
B. In contexts where communities fragment and finding mates as a task devolves to individuals, romance becomes a natural agent of marriage.
C. For, the greater emphasis on the individual has also meant that personal needs and personal growth come to occupy a privileged position in every individual's life.
D. The trouble is that while the device works very well in bringing people together, it is not intrinsically equipped to handle these individuals over time.
E. The idea of romance makes the coming together of individuals seem like a natural event. Mutual attraction melts individuals together into a union.
F. Falling in love becomes infinitely easier than staying in it as individuals are no longer defined primarily by the roles they play in marriage.

Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.

A. So we have a situation where people fall in and out of love more often, making the idea of romance as a basis of marriage not as socially productive as it used to be.
B. In a world where our presence has become a poor indicator of our future, the idea of arranging marriages continues to hold charm.
C. Of course, arranged marriage has its own assumptions about what variables make this contract work and these too offer no guarantees.
D. It keeps the headiness of romance at bay and recognises that romance and the sustenance of a socially constructed long-term contract like marriage do not necessarily converge.
E. Romantic love seeks to extend the present while arranged marriage aims at securing the future.
F. Whether it is cloaked in tradition as it is in India or in modernity as it is elsewhere, the institution of marriage needs some help.

Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.

A. The Indian state was founded on equality and equity: political equality through democracy, religious equality through secularism, gender equality, and economic equity.
B. India, therefore, saw land reforms and the abolition of zamindari. Pakistan has been unable to enforce land reforms.
C. India and Pakistan were alternative models for a nation-state. Time would determine which idea had the legs to reach a modern horizon.
D. Economic equality is a fantasy, but without an equitable economy that works towards the elimination of poverty, there cannot be a sustainable state.
E. The two strands within Pakistan's DNA began to slowly split its personality.
F. The father of the nation, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, thought he had produced a child in his own image, but his secular prescription was soon suppressed.

Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.

A. After some debate, the first Constitution in $1956$ proclaimed Pakistan as an "Islamic" state.
B. The principal institutions of the state, and the economy, remained largely in the control of the secular tendency until, through racist prejudice, arrogance and awesome military incompetence it was unable to protect the integrity of the nation.
C. No one cared (or dared) to examine what it might mean.
D. The crisis of $1969$-$1971$, and the second partition of the subcontinent, which created a Muslim-majority Bangladesh out of a Muslim-majority Pakistan, forced Pakistan to introspect deeply about its identity.
E. It was an uneasy compromise.
F. Perhaps the last true secularist of this Islamic state was the Western-Oriented-Gentleman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who came to power in 1971, preached emancipation from poverty and did not mind a shot of whisky in the evening.

Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.

A. If it had been only a question of an individual's excesses Zia's death could have been a swivel moment for the restoration of the pre-Zia era, particularly since his successor was Benazir Bhutto.
B. There are now over $200000$ of them, with perhaps two million students, most (not all) of them controlled by extremists.
C. The children of Gen Zia are now threatening Islamabad. Sometimes a simple fact can illuminate the nature of society.
D. Worse, prompted by thoughtless advice, Benazir engineered the rise of the Taliban and helped it conquer Kabul.
E. But in the quarter-century since his sudden death by a mid-air explosion, no one in Islamabad has had the courage to change the curriculum or challenge the spread of the madrassas.
F. During the $2005$ earthquake, male students of the Frontier Medical College were stopped by religious fanatics—their elders—from saving girls from the rubble of their school building.

Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.

A. For six decades, power in Pakistan has teetered between military dictatorship and civilian rule.
B. Men like Baitullah Mehsud, Mangal Bagh and Maulana Faziullah are very different breeds from the mullahs who have already been co-opted and corrupted by the system.
C. When the credibility of civilians was exhausted the people welcomed the army, when the generals over-stayed their welcome, the citizen returned to political parties.
D. How long before the poor and the middle classes turn to the theocrats waiting to take over? The state has already handed over a province like Swat to Islamic rule.
E. Pakistan is facing a dangerous moment when the credibility of both the military and politicians seems to have ebbed beyond recovery.
F. They have a supplementary query that resonates with the street and the village after $9/11$: why is Pakistan's army fighting America's war against fellow Muslims?

Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.

A. We could also take a leaf out of Britain's book in what they do to combat racism within the police, as well as enhance cross-cultural knowledge, offering training courses to white officers that include a long weekend' spent living with a minority family.
B. But we must acknowledge the grave risk to the national fabric of any community being alienated from the police.
C. Of course, India is not Britain, and no foreign ideas can simply be imported wholesale into our country.
D. Britain is far from perfect as the current discrimination case filed by Deputy Commissioner Tariq Ghafoor suggests--but many Hindu policemen, especially in Gujarat and the suburbs of Mumbai, would benefit immeasurably by spending a few days in a Muslim mohalla.
E. Let's face it: if our police are not properly and continuously trained in minority relations, the current problems will continue.
F. Our police forces must reflect the diversity of India. Such a policy would be the "other side of the coin" to a tough security policy which is indispensable to reassure the common urban resident, terrorized by the bomb blasts, that the Government can keep them safe.