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Read the 'value-based' passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was dethroned and exiled to Calcutta on the plea that the region was being n-dsgovemed? The British government also wrongly assumed that Wajid Ali Shah was an unpopular ruler. On the contrary, he was widely loved, and when? he left his beloved Lucknow, there were many who followed him all the way to Kanpur singing songs of lament. The widespread sense of grief and loss at - the Nawab's exile was recorded by many contemporary observers. One of them wrote: ?Me life was gone out of the body, and the body of this town had been left lifeless ... there was no street or market and house which did not wail out the cry of agony in separation of Jan-i-Alam? One folk song bemoaned that ?the honourable English came and took the country?.

(Angrez Bahadur ain, mulk lai linho).

Questions:

(a) Why did people bemoan show an emotional upheaval at? Explain.

(b) What human values are revealed in the above passage?

 

Answer:

(a) Wajid Ali shah was a loved ruler of Awadh but Lord Dalhaus.ie annexed Awadh on the pretext of mis-governance. Wajid Ali shah was sent to Calcutta and the court was dissolved. Therefore people of Awadh bemoaned his exile. The people had seen Wajid Ali as an able and loved ruler but when British sent him away then people had a feeling of betrayal and therefore they were empathetic to Wajid Ali. During monarchies, people used to think of ruler as their ?mai - baap? and had loyalty to the king. Thus they thought of it as if British have seized an aspect of their own-selves and body from them.

(b) The above passage reveals that human beings are social beings and they get connected to their environment. They have feelings for fellow people, which can be of affection, loyalty, and love to some while hatred and animosity for others. For example People of Awadh treated Wajid Ali as of their own whereas British as others.

This also shows that humans become happy if the things happen according to expectations whereas they become sad when they happen contrary to their wishes. In this passage, when Wajid Ali who was loved by people was sent to Calcutta then some people accompanied him till Kanpur and sang songs of separation and love.