Read the given passage and answer the question that follows: Your answer to this item should be based on the passage only. Though I have discarded much of past tradition and custom, and am anxious that India should rid herself of all shackles that bind and contain her and divide her people, and suppress vast numbers of them, and prevent the free development of the body and the spirit; though I seek all this, yet I do not wish to cut myself off from that past completely. I am proud of that great inheritance that has been and is, ours and I am conscious that I too, like all of us, am a link in that unbroken chain which goes back to the dawn of history in the immemorial past of India.The author wants India to rid herself of certain past bonds because

• A. he is not able to see the relevance of the past
• B. there is not much to be proud of
• C. he is not interested in the history of India
• D. they obstruct her physical and spiritual growth