Question

The five sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4, and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
1. The process of handing down implies not a passive transfer, but some contestation in defining what exactly is to be handed down.
2. Wherever Western scholars have worked on the Indian past, the selection is even more apparent and the inventing of a tradition much more recognizable. 
3. Every generation selects what it requires from the past and makes its innovations, some more than others. 
4. It is now a truism to say that traditions are not handed down unchanged, but are invented. 
5. Just as life has death as its opposite, so is tradition by default the opposite of innovation.

• A. 54132
• B. 12543
• C. 15423
• D. 24315

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Statement 5 introduces the paragraph by asserting that tradition is inherently the opposite of innovation. Statement 4 contradicts this notion by stating that it is now widely accepted that traditions are not passed down unchanged but are instead invented. Statement 1 follows by explaining that the act of handing down does not imply a passive transfer, but rather involves contention over what needs to be passed down. Statement 3 elaborates on this contention, noting that each generation selects what it requires from the past and introduces innovations. Finally, statement 2, which mentions that this selection process is particularly evident when Western scholars work on the Indian past, serves as the concluding statement. Therefore, the logical sequence is 54132.