MPSC Rajyaseva 2017 CSAT — Question 46
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Why is the 'native town' a hungry town ?
(a)It did not have agricultural farms.
(b)It did not have markets.
(c)The blacks were steeped in poverty.
(d)They were denied their fundamental rights by the whites.
Based on post-colonial literature (such as Frantz Fanon's 'The Wretched of the Earth'), the native town is 'hungry' because the colonized blacks are subjected to extreme exploitation, resulting in severe poverty (c) and systemic deprivation of basic human and fundamental rights by the white settlers (d).
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