MPSC Group-C Combined Pre 2025 — Question Paper with Answer Key & Explanations

Correct answer: A

Gandhi's first three mass struggles after returning to India were all local, non-violent satyagrahas: Champaran indigo (1917), Kheda revenue (1918), and the Ahmedabad textile mill strike (1918). Separate Muslim electorates came from constitutional reform politics (Montagu–Chelmsford, 1919)—Gandhi did not 'handle' that as a successful campaign. Options mixing in 'd' trap students who lump every pre-Independence issue under Gandhi.

Correct answer: D

The answer is option D: the Tasgaon Mamledar Court march (3 September 1942) is a documented Quit India episode in western Maharashtra. Krishna Rama Kurhade, V. S. Page, Govind Khot, and Dr. Y. K. Sovani are all named in regional histories as leaders of that action. Partial combinations (only two or three names) undercount a collective leadership the paper treats as fully correct. You can eliminate A (Only a and b), B (Only b and c), C (Only b, c and d) — each one conflicts with the principle or calculation that leads to option D. MPSC papers often recycle this type of detail, so read the question carefully before you commit to an option.

Correct answer: D

Option D matches the question because Scan each clue against standard Maharashtra reformer profiles: Baba Padmanji (conversion/widow-remarriage press), Gopal Hari Deshmukh/Lokhitwadi (widow remarriage, social essays—not Dnyan Prakash editor with Rao Bahadur music patronage), Vishnushastri Pandit (orthodox polemicist). None fits all three bullets cleanly, so 'None of the above' is the correct stand rather than forcing a familiar name. Distractors A (Baba Padmanji), B (Gopal Hari Deshmukh), C (Vishnushastri Pandit) look plausible but do not follow from the facts stated in the question. If the question asks what is incorrect, identify the false statement first and then match it to the answer choice.

Correct answer: C

Ramabai Ranade's biography matches every clause: work with Shardasadan and Arya Mahila Samaj, Kaisar-i-Hind medal (1913), founding the Hindu Ladies Social Club (1894), and Thakursy/Tata financial backing. Pandita Ramabai (Mukti Mission), Rakhmabai (age-of-consent case), and Anandibai Joshi (medicine) each miss at least one marker.

Correct answer: B

Option B is the right choice since in Maharashtra's 1857 aftermath, Nargunda (Karnataka border theatre linked to Maharashtra papers) saw Bhave's adopted son rebel after disinheritance (May 1858), and Bhil forces were crushed at Amba Pani (11 April 1858). Statements on Rangrao Page/Satara restoration and Kolhapur regiment mutiny dates are the weaker limbs—hence only c and d survive. You can eliminate A (Only a and b), C (Only a, b and c), D (Only b, c and d) — each one conflicts with the principle or calculation that leads to option B. Keep the name, formula, and unit together in your notes — that helps you spot incomplete distractors quickly.

Correct answer: A

Lock the anchor presidents first: 1886 Calcutta → Dadabhai Naoroji; 1887 Madras → Badruddin Tyabji (first Muslim Congress president). George Yule chaired Allahabad (1888) as the first English president; William Wedderburn presided at Bombay (1889). That yields a-III, b-I, c-IV, d-II—any swap of Tyabji/Yule/Wedderburn breaks the chronology.