KSLU Solved Question Papers
General English
Previous Year Question Paper with Solution
B.A. LL.B. (Five Years) · Sem 1
2023 Mar Examination
munotes.in
Mumbai
B.A. LL.B. (Five Years) Sem 1 General English 2023 Mar Question Paper with Solutions
First published on munotes.in on 21 October 2026.
Published by munotes.in, Mumbai.
Model answers written and edited by the munotes.in editorial desk.
Passages from this volume may be quoted, in print, online or by an AI system, with credit: name munotes.in and link to this volume's page. The volume may not be reproduced as a whole. Full terms at munotes.in/content-license.
munotes.in is an independent study resource for students of Karnataka State Law University. It is not affiliated with Karnataka State Law University, and is not endorsed by it.
The University does not publish an official answer key for this paper. The answers in this volume are model answers, written to show how a full-mark answer is built. They are a study aid, not an authority on what an examiner marked.
The question paper reproduced here is the paper as set by Karnataka State Law University at the 2023 Mar examination.
Contents
The questions below are the paper as Karnataka State Law University set it at the 2023 Mar examination, in the order it was set.
MarksPage
MarksPage
The Paper as Set
The questions in this volume are the questions asked at the 2023 Mar examination, reproduced as Karnataka State Law University set them, in the order it set them. Long reading passages are shortened to their first and last lines and our summary; the original paper prints them in full. Only the answers are ours. See the original question paper.
Duration 3 hours · Total marks 80 · 15 questions answered
How to use this volume
Solve the paper first, under exam conditions and against the clock. Then read the answers here and mark your own. Reading a solution before attempting the question feels productive and teaches very little, because recognising an answer is not the same as being able to write one.
SECTION I
Section A
Answer any four · 40 Marks
Q1What were the various factors that shaped the character of Dr. Radhakrishnan ?[10]
Answer
For full marks, cover: birth and family; the pilgrim towns of his childhood; his inborn faith in an unseen world; his shy, bookish and meditative nature; his sense of guidance; his Christian missionary education; the hurt to his Hindu pride and the influence of Vivekananda; the Hindu tradition of tolerance; and the thesis on the ethics of the Vedanta.
Introduction
Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was a philosopher, a teacher and later the second President of India. In his autobiographical essay, My Search for Truth (1937), he looks back at the forces that made him. Some came from his birth and nature. Others came from his schools, his religion and his teachers. Together they explain the man he became.
1. Birth and family
Radhakrishnan was born on 5 September 1888 at Tirutani, a small place about forty miles north-west of Madras. He was the second child of Hindu parents. He describes them as conventional in their religious outlook. He says plainly that he had no advantages of birth or of wealth. Whatever he achieved, he had to earn.
2. A childhood in pilgrim towns
He spent the first twelve years of his life in Tirutani and Tirupati. Both are famous pilgrim centres. He grew up among temples, festivals and pilgrims. This early religious setting stayed with him. Throughout his life, religion was for him a living experience, not a subject of study alone.
3. An inborn faith in an unseen world
From his earliest memory he had firm faith in an unseen world. He believed in a reality behind the changing things we see. He says we know that world through the mind, not the senses. He cannot explain where this faith came from. Even in grave difficulties it never left him. This faith later became the centre of his philosophy.
4. A meditative and bookish nature
He had a meditative frame of mind and loved being alone. Behind his busy outward life, he kept an inner life of growing solitude. Books were his constant companions from the beginning. He did not enjoy formal social functions. He was shy, sensitive and highly strung. He felt deep emotions but usually hid them. People thought him cold and strong-willed. He says the truth was the opposite.
5. A sense of guidance
Radhakrishnan believed that luck, or a kind of guidance, had protected him. He compares it to a great pilot steering his ship past rocks where others were wrecked. He planned and prepared, but felt an invisible hand behind his major choices. Yet he was honest about his faults. He gave credit for his success to this guidance. He took the blame for his failures himself.
6. Christian missionary education
He studied entirely in Christian missionary institutions. These were the mission high school at Tirupati (1896 to 1900), Voorhees College at Vellore (1901 to 1904) and Madras Christian College (1905 to 1909). There he came to know the New Testament well. He also heard the missionaries criticise Hindu beliefs and practices. This exposure, at an impressionable age, shaped his mind more than anything else.
7. Hurt pride and the influence of Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda had stirred his pride as a Hindu. So the missionaries' treatment of Hinduism hurt him deeply. He could not accept that Hindu saints and teachers were not truly religious. He felt that even poor village pilgrims understood the spiritual mystery of life. He respected their faith that man does not live by bread alone.
8. The Hindu tradition of tolerance
His religious sense never allowed him to mock anything that others held sacred. He says this respect for all creeds is bred into the bone by the Hindu tradition. He believed that different religions are fellow workers in the same task, not rivals. So it annoyed him that sincere Christian missionaries could mock what others revered.
9. The challenge that made him a scholar
The criticism of the missionaries became a challenge. It made him study Hinduism to find out what was living and what was dead in it. For his M.A. he wrote a thesis on the Ethics of the Vedanta. It answered the charge that the Vedanta had no room for ethics. It was published in 1908, when he was only twenty. His teacher, Professor A. G. Hogg, praised it in a testimonial that Radhakrishnan always treasured. This study set the direction of his whole life's work.
Conclusion. Radhakrishnan's character was formed by two forces working together. One was inward: an inborn faith in the unseen, a lonely and meditative nature, and a love of books. The other was outward: a missionary education that challenged his religion, and a Hindu tradition that taught respect for every faith. The challenge turned a shy student into a defender and interpreter of Indian thought. That is why the man who began without wealth or position became one of India's leading philosophers.
The rest of the answers
The first answer is free. The rest come with the KSLU B.A. LL.B. Semester 1 solved papers.
You have read the question paper and its first answer in full. Buy the solved papers once and you can read every answer of every solved paper in this semester.
Solved papers: ₹499 Already bought it? Sign in
The question paper itself stays free.
Found an error in this volume? Report it and we will check it against the paper.