What demands did the British Indian Association make to the British Parliament in 1853 AD on the occasion of the renewal of the Charter Act? (a) The Legislature, Executive and Judiciary should have separate jurisdictions. (b) The salaries of high-ranking officials should be reduced. (c) A new legislature should be formed and Indians should be represented in it. (d) Salt, excise and stamp duty should be abolished.

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.