Which of the following activists led the March to the Mamledar Court of Tasgaon on 3rd September 1942? a. Krishna Rama Kurhade b. V. S. Page c. Govind Khot d. Dr. Y. K. Sovani
This MPSC previous-year question is drawn from MPSC Group-C Combined Pre 2025 (English). It belongs to the History section under the topic Maharashtra in Freedom Struggle and is reproduced here in English exactly as it appeared in the official Maharashtra Public Service Commission paper, along with the four options, the official Set A answer key and a compact explanation of why the correct option is correct.
Correct answer: D
Explanation
The right answer is All of the above are correct (option D). The Krishna river rises at Mahabaleshwar in the Sahyadri and flows east across Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh before draining into the Bay of Bengal. Options like this one recur in MPSC papers with only the option-order shuffled, so recognising the anchor phrase in the stem is what carries the mark.
Why this question matters
Questions of this type recur almost every year across MPSC Group B, Group C, PSI and Gazetted Civil Services prelims because history carries a high, stable weightage in the syllabus. Practising the original paper wording — rather than paraphrased mock questions — is the fastest way to internalise MPSC's option-framing style and the specific way its examiners plant trick choices.
How to attempt this in the exam
Approach this in three passes. First pass: eliminate any option that contains a factual howler you can spot in five seconds. Second pass: match the remaining options against the anchor in the question stem — the year, the article number, the place name, the scientist. Third pass: commit. On MPSC maharashtra in freedom struggle items, the wrong option that survives to the final two usually flips one attribute of the correct one.
Subject-specific tip
Tip for History: anchor the answer to a date, a king or leader and a primary source. MPSC History options usually contain one option with the wrong date and one with the wrong dynasty — eliminate those first.
Marathas, Peshwas and the freedom struggle
The Maratha half of MPSC History is anchored on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's coronation at Raigad (1674), the ashta-pradhan council, the guerrilla warfare doctrine, the Treaty of Purandar (1665) with the Mughals, the sack of Surat (1664), and the succession through Sambhaji, Rajaram, Shahu and Tarabai to the Peshwa era. Under Bajirao I (1720–1740) the Maratha confederacy reached its northern peak; under Nana Sahib and Madhav Rao I it consolidated; under Bajirao II it fell to the British in the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818) after the defeat at Kirkee.
The freedom-movement paragraph most MPSC papers ask about is the Maharashtra contribution: Bal Gangadhar Tilak's Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav (from 1893) and Shivaji Utsav (from 1895) as public-mobilisation tools; his newspapers Kesari and The Mahratta; his six years of imprisonment in Mandalay after the 1908 sedition trial; Gopal Krishna Gokhale as Congress moderate and mentor to Gandhi; Dadabhai Naoroji and the drain theory; Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and the 1857 History; the Chapekar brothers; Bhagat Singh at HSRA (linked via Maharashtra activists); and later Ambedkar's Poona Pact (1932) with Gandhi.
The 1960 formation of Maharashtra state, following the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti's decade-long agitation, the martyrdom of 106 activists at Flora Fountain (later renamed Hutatma Chowk) in 1956, and the eventual reorganisation of the erstwhile Bombay state into Gujarat and Maharashtra on 1 May 1960 is the single most-asked modern-history question in the MPSC set.
Source and editorial process
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