MPSC Subordinate Services Group B (Non-Gazetted) Combined Pre 2019 — Question Paper with Answer Key & Explanations

Correct answer: B

Working through it, option B is the one. The official answer key credits V. V. Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) with starting the 'Granthottejak Mandali' at Nashik — a literary circle tied to Nashik's reading culture. Savarkar belongs to revolutionary politics, Ranade to broader reform societies, and Kanhere to the Muzaffarpur conspiracy — not this Nashik association named in the answer key.

Correct answer: C

Straight to the answer — option C. The paper marks Dadabhai Naoroji as the 'uncoronated king of Bombay' for 1885–1915 — his Parsi leadership, economic drain thesis, and Bombay presidency influence in that window. Pherozeshah Mehta often gets the same nickname in textbooks; here the key follows Naoroji.

Correct answer: A

The verified answer here is option A. Groups (a) Atmaram Pandurang and Bhandarkar, (b) Modak and Chandavarkar, and (d) Kunte and Mandlik are counted as Prarthana Samaj reform workers in the list in the answer key. Group (c) bundling Shinde with Ranade is left out — match the paper's grouping, not a wider reform roll-call.

Correct answer: C

The right pick is option C. The official answer key places the first farmers' revolt of 12 May 1875 at Ahmednagar — the opening of the Deccan agrarian unrest MPSC maps to that district. Pune and Supe appear in textbook accounts of the ryots' movement; here Ahmednagar is the locality given in the answer key.

Correct answer: C

On this one, option C. Lock the 1857 regional map: Peth — Bhagwantrao Koli (IV); Nargund — Vaikappa Naik Balwant Behari (I); Jamkhandi — Ramchandra Patwardhan (II); Shorapur — Babasaheb Bhave (III). Swapping Nargund–Shorapur leaders breaks the Maharashtra locality pairings the key expects.

Correct answer: D

The examiner has marked option D. Lord Morley, as Secretary of State for India, dismissed colonial freedom demands as 'like asking for the moon' in Home Rule–era rhetoric. Dalhousie framed annexation policy; Ripon pursued modest liberal reforms; William Jones was an Orientalist — not the author of this imperial put-down.