Direction: Choose the sentence that most logically completes the paragraph.
Indian poetry in English began in Bengal, the province where the British first gained a stronghold. This poetry was a largely urban phenomenon, centered in Calcutta. ____________. Then, gradually, it moved to other urban centres. Even today, Indian poetry in English remains largely urban.
- AThe rulers encouraged the natives to write poetry about India only if their mother tongue was English
- BEnglish was seen as an elite language and so the British felt that only they could use it for poetry
- CThe British had decided that poetry about India could reach a larger audience if written in Calcutta
- DIn fact, poetry writing for the first fifty years was confined to a few families who were residents of Calcutta