Lokmanya Tilak sent _________ to Nepal to learn how to make rifles and cartridges.

MPSC History leans heavily towards Maharashtra's own story — the Satavahanas of the 2nd century BCE, the Vakatakas, the Chalukyas and Rashtrakutas, the Yadavas of Devagiri (Daulatabad), the Bahmani sultanate and its five successor Deccan sultanates, the rise of the Maratha state under Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the 17th century, the Peshwa era (1713–1818), the British / Bombay Presidency period and the freedom movement's Marathi voices from Bal Shastri Jambhekar and Tilak to Savarkar, Ambedkar and the Samyukta Maharashtra movement of the 1950s.

Threaded through this Maharashtra timeline is pan-India history: the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal empire, colonial land settlements (Permanent Settlement 1793, Ryotwari, Mahalwari), the Revolt of 1857, the Congress moderates and extremists, the Home Rule leagues, the four Gandhian movements (Non-Cooperation 1920, Civil Disobedience 1930, Individual Satyagraha 1940, Quit India 1942) and the post-1947 integration of princely states — including Hyderabad's Operation Polo (1948) which added parts of Marathwada.

MPSC History questions almost always pin a name to a date and a place. For every named leader, memorise the year of their most famous event and the geographic location; that three-tuple lets you eliminate three of four options in nearly every historical PYQ. Our Maharashtra History study guide arranges every ruler and every movement in exactly this three-column form.