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[108]. Passage:

Archives are not dusty godowns; they are the memory of a society. A land record settles a dispute, a school register proves a child's age, and a letter reveals why a decision was taken. When archives rot, burn or are discarded as waste, citizens lose evidence and governments lose accountability. Digitisation helps only if originals are preserved, catalogued and made accessible; a scanned image without context is a picture, not proof. Societies that keep records keep power checkable. In the passage on archives, the word 'accountability' is used most nearly to mean

1.
The opposite of the passage's sense
2.
A purely technical term
3.
A place name
4.
checkable evidence
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 4 : checkable evidence

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Detailed Solution

सही उत्तर checkable evidence है।

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In context, 'accountability' conveys checkable evidence.

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[108]. Passage:

Archives are not dusty godowns; they are the memory of a society. A land record settles a dispute, a school register proves a child's age, and a letter reveals why a decision was taken. When archives rot, burn or are discarded as waste, citizens lose evidence and governments lose accountability. Digitisation helps only if originals are preserved, catalogued and made accessible; a scanned image without context is a picture, not proof. Societies that keep records keep power checkable. In the passage on archives, the word 'accountability' is used most nearly to mean

1.
The opposite of the passage's sense
2.
A purely technical term
3.
A place name
4.
checkable evidence

Correct Answer: checkable evidence

In context, 'accountability' conveys checkable evidence.

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