CAT 2017 Slot 1 VARC · Question 25
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four 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.
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