Identify the factor responsible for the submergence of creative energy in…

Concept

In literal reading comprehension, the answer must follow the passage’s explicit sequence and wording rather than outside assumptions. Track the subject, the event, and the relationship asserted by the author, then distinguish causes from background conditions.

Application

The passage says independence released an upsurge of creative energy. It immediately adds that this energy was soon submerged in the great agony of Partition, marked by slaughter, displacement, and Gandhi’s martyrdom.

Contrast

• Military occupation of India’s own soil belongs to the earlier wartime conflict of loyalties described in the passage.

• Resistance to colonial occupation is represented by Subhas Bose’s army and also belongs to that earlier conflict of loyalties.

• The great agony of Partition is placed directly after the creative upsurge and is named as what submerged it.

• The Allied victory is presented as preceding independence and the collapse of colonialism in neighbouring Southeast Asia.

Cross-check

Substituting each offered factor into the passage’s sequence leaves only the agony of Partition in the sentence that uses the verb “submerged”; the other factors occur in different causal or chronological roles.

Result

Therefore, the factor identified in the passage is the great agony of Partition.