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AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.

Q1. [1] deep thorough-understanding
Assertion (A): Raising gender inequality as a political issue has benefited women, but raising caste identity as a political issue has produced both benefits and harms. Reason (R): When a disadvantaged group uses political mobilisation to claim rights, it strengthens democracy; when mobilisation is used to establish the dominance of one group over another, it weakens it.
  1. A Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
  2. B Both A and R are true, but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
  3. C A is true but R is false.
  4. D A is false but R is true.
Generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 · 2026-06-26 13:18 · grounding rag
Model Answer

Answer: (A)

Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A. Gender mobilisation aimed at removing inequality (benefiting women), while caste politics has both helped disadvantaged castes gain power and harmed democracy through divisive dominance — exactly as R explains.

Source: Caste and politics; Gender and politics, Chapter 3

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Explanation

The textbook explicitly states that caste politics "has both positive and negative aspects" — helping Dalits/OBCs gain decision-making access (democratic benefit) but also causing tensions and violence (harm). Gender mobilisation is described as largely positive. Reason R from the textbook's broader theme directly explains this contrast: mobilisation for rights strengthens democracy; mobilisation for dominance weakens it. So R correctly explains A, making option A correct.

Previous-year CBSE Grade 10 board exam questions, organised by subject and chapter, each with a model answer — free to read and print.