XAT 2018 Question 1

In the passage the author reiterates the fact that studying history widens our vision and the penultimate sentence of the passage states that by studying the accidental chain of events that led us here, we realise how our thoughts and dreams took shape and we begin to think and dream differently. Hence, if every street in India were to display a plague that lists all its previous names, it would help us realise how our very own thoughts and dreams took shape and thereby, help us begin to think and dream differently. Therefore, only option B would be the most appropriate for the citizens to learn history. Options A and C restrict themselves only to British names of streets and do not speak about the history of India prior to British rule and hence they can be eliminated. Options D and E fail to explain why it would be appropriate for citizens to learn history so they can be eliminated to.