“A more eclectic history might have included the conquistadors, Vasco da Gama and the East India Company. But Lehr sticks to the disorganised small fry . . .” From this statement we can infer that the author believes that:
Explanation:
The author by giving the example of Vasco da Gama and the east India company to suggest that they both were not very different from piracy. Options 2 brings out that suggestion appropriately. 1 goes out because the author does consider them as pirates. 3 might look like a good choice but the phrase “laid the ground for modern piracy” brings something that is not implied or stated in the passage. 4 could have been another close choice, but the author’s intention is not to compare the disorganized piracy of today with the organized piracy of the past. His intention is to compare the disorganized small piracy of the past with the renegades of today. It is small Vs small, and not small Vs big. 2 is the right answer.
Hence, option (b) is correct.
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