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Qn #1205

Anthropologists have placed together the little they known about the history of left handedness and right hand handedness from indirect evidence. Though early men and women did not leave written record, they did leave tool bones and picture. Stone Age hand axes and hatches made from stone that were carefully chipped away made to from sharp cutting edges. In some , the pattern of chipping shows that these tools and weapons were made by right handed people,designed to fit comfortably into a right hand. Other Stone Age implement were made by or for left hander, Prehistoric pictures, painted on walls of caves, provider further clues to the handedness of ancient people. A righthander finds it easier to draw faces of people and animals facing towards the left whereas s a lefthander finds it easier to draw faces towards the right. Both kind of face have been found in ancient painting. On the whole, the evidence seems to indicate that prehistoric people were either ambidextrous or about equally likely to be left or right handed. But in the Bronze Age. The picture changed The tool and weapon found from that Period are mostly made for right handed use .The predominance of right handednes among humans today and apparently already been established.

According to the passage, a person who is right handed is more likely to draw people and animals that are facing?

Qn #342

Corruption is not a new phenomenon in India. It has been prevalent in society since ancient times. History reveals that it was present even in the Mauryan period. Great scholar, Kautilya, mentions the pressure of forty types of corruption in his contemporary society. It was practiced even in the Mughal and Sultanate period. When the East India Company took control of the country, corruption reached a new height. Corruption in India has become so common that people now are averse to thinking of public life with it. Corruption has been defined variously by scholars. But the simple meaning of it is that corruption implies perversion of morality, integrity, character or duty out of mercenary motives, ie. bribery, without any regard to honor, right, and justice. In other words, undue favor for anyone for some monetary or other gains Simultaneously, is corruption. depriving the genuinely deserving of their right or privilege is also a corrupt practice. Shrinking from one's duty or dereliction of duty are also forms of corruption. Besides, thefts, wastage of public property constitute varieties of corruption. Dishonesty, exploitation, malpractices, scams and scandals are various manifestations of corruption.

Kautilya mentions the pressure of how many types of corruption in his contemporary society?

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