Read the following excerpt from "the four hundred year old woman" by bharati mukherjee and answer the following question. i was born into a religion that placed me, a brahmin, at the top of its hierarchy while condemning me, as a woman, to a role of subservience. the larger political entity to which i first gave my allegiance—india—was not even a sovereign nation when i was born. which best describes the author's overall perspective in the above paragraph? she did not choose to be brahmin; she was born into it. most women in india led lives of subservience. much of what she was born into made little sense to her, but this foundation gave her a unique perspective. india was not yet a sovereign state, but has a great future ahead. d.