Drawing out what the passage implies but never states — history and anthropology passages

CAT has tested this idea 12 times across 10 papers, from 2017 to 2025. Solve one, and the others are the same method with different numbers or wording, which is why repeated concepts are the most efficient thing to practise.

Question	What it asks	Answer
CAT 2017 Slot 1 · VARC Q4	north-up maps; what can be inferred about columbus and magellan	C
CAT 2017 Slot 1 · VARC Q6	map-making conventions; whose early maps best show natural phenomena at work	A
CAT 2018 Slot 1 · VARC Q14	india's second world war; suggested reason india has not acknowledged its role	B
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q22	colonial modernity in india; restating the 'eminence at the cost of marginality' sentence	C
CAT 2019 Slot 2 · VARC Q24	colonial modernity in india; conclusion from change attacking 'as an external force'	D
CAT 2021 Slot 1 · VARC Q4	review of a history of tea; which modern marketing conflates consumption with virtue	A
CAT 2022 Slot 1 · VARC Q16	the undead as neither alive nor dead; valid conclusion from the quoted opening line	B
CAT 2022 Slot 3 · VARC Q11	orientalist method of studying india; which research style is most similar	D
CAT 2023 Slot 1 · VARC Q9	sahlins's 'original affluent society'; infer his main goal in writing the essay	C
CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC Q10	facts vs interpretation in history; focus of the author's own battle of hastings account	C
CAT 2024 Slot 2 · VARC Q11	legend of snake-guarded pepper trees; conclusion hearers would least likely draw	C
CAT 2025 Slot 1 · VARC Q23	alienists in court; quality connecting the 'middle-class, white, professional men'	C

Part of RC · Society, History & Politics (179 questions since 2017).