![]() Even during the freedom struggle, the leaders who led it made secularism a basic policy to rally all the people against the British. Although the people of our country are deeply religious yet they don’t harbour any ill will or intolerance against other faiths. Honouring this eternal spirit of India, our constitution makers declared our nation to be a secular state without any discrimination. ![]() In all, India remained a shining example of unity in diversity, nowhere else found in the world. Three nearly different religions branched out of it, namely, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism having separate places of worship and holy books. Hinduism itself was a religious conglomeration of thousands of sects having distinct beliefs, rituals, customs, and practices. ![]() Jews sailed to India 2000 years ago to settle down in Mumbai, Pune, Kochi, and Delhi. Paris came to India in the 8th century to escape from religious persecution in Iran. Thomas, the twelve disciples of Christ arrived in India to preach his message when St. Christianity had preceded Islam to India. Islam enriched India with architectural wonders, the most precious being ‘Tajmahal’, the symbol of aesthetic India. It added variety, colour and richness to native heritage. The contribution of Islam to Indian culture and civilization has been spectacular. A large number of natives turned Muslims over the period and presently they make up the second-largest community of our nation. Islam came to India with Muslim conquerors. India has a tradition of co-existence, tolerance, cooperation, and mutual respect between all its social and religious groups. Secularism is the very soul of Indian society and the democracy. In the case of a familiar subject, only one reading should suffice. If the subject is alien, do the slow reading twice or thrice. Now read slowly grasping the meaning of every sentence and the word. You will know if the passage deals with a subject alien to you or a familiar one. That will be the first impression of the paragraph. Read the paragraph in one glance and see if it makes any sense to you. Hence, a student must be able to express his thoughts precisely with incorrect words. Sometimes the answers need to be written in the student’s own words, although not very different from the given text, only a little adjustment to have the sentence grammatically and meaning-wise correct. The exercise of comprehension is meant to assess and better the ability of a student to read and comprehend what he reads. It only requires a bit of intelligence to identify the sentence or sentences that form the answer to a particular question. ![]() ![]() The answers are contained in the passage. To test it, a set of questions is given after a paragraph relating to the subject matter. It shows how well you have understood a paragraph that you have read or how correctly you have grasped its meaning. The literal meaning of ‘Comprehension’ is understanding. ![]()
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