AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
Conservatives believed that traditional institutions like the monarchy, the Church, social hierarchies, property, and the family should be preserved, not abolished.
Source: A New Conservatism after 1815, Chapter 1
The key term examiners look for is "preserved." Students often write "restored," but the passage clarifies that most conservatives did not want to return to the pre-revolutionary order — they wanted to preserve existing institutions while accepting some modernisation. One clear word makes the difference in a 1-mark answer.