Directions (set of 5 questions):
A set of seven statements is given out of which the 1st and the 4th statements are fixed (A and D), and the rest are jumbled in any random order. Rearrange the remaining statements in the right order and answer the questions.
A. Mumbai, which began as a port city, found further sustenance with the proliferation of textile units in the 1900s.
B. Ram B Bhagat from the Department of Migration and Urban Studies of International Institute of Population Sciences points out that the share of migrants from Maharashtra to Mumbai had declined from 41.6 per cent in 1961 to 37.4 per cent in 2001.
C. The city’s growth was fuelled by migrants, who in 1921 made up nearly 84 per cent of the city’s population.
D. Migrants from such varied areas helped Mumbai become a commercial and industrial centre of note.
E. Most of the migrants hailed from the rest while Bombay Presidency and came from areas like Konkan, Western Maharashtra, parts of Gujarat and adjoining states like Goa.
F. In the last 40 years, the shutting down of its textile mills, and the transformation of Mumbai from a manufacturing hub to a services hub changed the migration pattern.
G. Earlier, migrants into Mumbai were largely from other parts of Maharashtra, but the non-mill jobs did not attract them, and cheap labour from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar flowed in.
If A and D are the first and the fourth sentence respectively after rearrangement, which is the last sentence (after rearrangement)?
Solution
The passage talks about the migration pattern in Mumbai over the years.
The passage starts with A which provides a starting point of the 1900s in the history of Mumbai.
In C, ‘the city’ refers to Mumbai. Also, C provides the next step in the history (1921) of Mumbai. Thus, C follows A.
In D, ‘such varied areas’ is a reference to the areas from which migrants came to Mumbai.
Only E provides the names of these areas and therefore, E precedes D.
The sentences following D (B, F and G) talk about the change in migration pattern over the last 40 years. F introduces the sub-topic (change in migration pattern) and also, ‘its’ in F refers to ‘Mumbai’ in D. Thus, F follows D.
G follows F as it states what has been the change in migration pattern.
Finally, B follows G as it provides proof for the claim made in G. Therefore, the sequence is A-CE-D-FGB.