Passage 4

In English

The monarchs who ruled over India fall into three categories: the supporters, the denigrators and the middlings. The monarchs who favoured Indian culture, contributed substantially to her beauty and glory; the denigrators made tremendous efforts to destroy Indian culture and found themselves defeated in their endeavours, the middlings who adopted an attitude of complacence and indifference disappeared in the womb of time. These three categories of men existed then; they exist now; they will exist in the future as well. But thanks to the patience and forbearance of its people, India made tryst with history, met the challenges of time and emerged grand and victorious.