UPSC Prelims 2024 · CSAT (Paper 2) · Q31
Hard · Passage: what the author emphatically conveys
Read the following passage and answer the item that follows. Your answer to this item should be based on the passage only.
A map is often taken for a small copy of the world, differing from it only in size. It is nothing of the kind. Every map leaves out almost everything, and the interest lies in what it chooses to keep. A road atlas erases rivers that a boatman would have called the only real routes; a revenue map records boundaries and forgets the grazing grounds that crossed them. What survives on the sheet is what the people who commissioned it needed to see, and what vanishes is not thereby unimportant. To read a map well is to keep asking what is not on it.
Which of the following is/are emphatically conveyed by the author of the passage?
1. Without maps, no society could have organised itself over a territory.
2. It is the mapmaker rather than the traveller who ultimately determines how a territory is understood.
Select the correct answer using the code given below.