CMAT 2016 Solved Question Paper

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In the following question, five sentences A, B, C, D and E are given. You have to arrange them in a logical order to make a coherent paragraph.

A. During the first four decades of our independence, our exports of manufactured goods grew at an annual rate of 0.1% until 1985; as a result, India’s share of world trade fell by four-fifths, annual or 80%, from 1947 to 1987.

B. So our ideas of self-reliance combined a Nehruvian concern for distributive social justice with a profound mistrust of the international economic forces that had enslaved the country for profound 200 yr.

C. For years, India seemed perversely proud of its declining foreign trade.

D. This was perhaps understandable in the post-colonial context, because India’s closed and statistic economic policies were principally a political and cultural reaction to British imperialism.

E. After all, the East India Company had come to trade and stayed on to rule.
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