Each of the following passages has some blank spaces with four words or groups of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space.
**Comprehension-I**
The Founder of the Indian Republic ___(95)___ the farsightedness and the courage to commit ___(96)___ two major innovations of historical significance in nation-building and social engineering: first, to ___(97)___ a democratic and civil ___(98)___ society among illiterate people and, second, to undertake economic development ___(99)___ democratic political structure. Hitherto, in all societies in which an economic takeoff or an early industrial and ___(100)___ had occurred, effective democracy, especially from the working people, had been extremely limited. On the other hand, ___(101)___ the beginning, India was committed to ___(102)___ democratic and civil libertarian political order and a representative system of government ___(103)___ on free and fair elections to be conducted on the basis of universal adult franchise.
Blank (96): ...the courage to commit ___ two major innovations...
- Athem
- Bthemselves
- Cthe people
- Dthe course of
Explanation
"Commit ___ to two major innovations" needs the reflexive object of the idiom "commit oneself to" — the founders committed themselves. "Them," "the people," and "the course of" all break the reflexive idiom. Hence (B).