Arrange the following events associated with Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya in chronological order, starting with the earliest : 1. Founding of the Banaras Hindu University 2. Formation of the Congress Nationalist Party 3. Founding of the English newspaper ‘The Leader’ 4. Founding of the Hindu Boarding House at Allahabad Select the correct answer using the code given below :
- (a)3-4-1-2
- (b)4-3-1-2
- (c)4-3-2-1
- (d)3-4-2-1
Correct — B, (b) 4-3-1-2. The four events in date order are: 4. Hindu Boarding House at Allahabad — 1901. A hostel for Hindu students in the city where Malaviya practised law; it grew into what is today the largest hostel of the University of Allahabad. 3. 'The Leader' — 1909. Malaviya started this English daily at Allahabad and edited it in its first years, giving the moderate nationalism of the United Provinces a paper of its own. 1. Banaras Hindu University — 1916. Established under the Banaras Hindu University Act of 1915, with Malaviya as its founder and moving spirit; he raised its endowment by public subscription across princely India. 2. Congress Nationalist Party — 1934. Formed by Malaviya with M.S. Aney in protest at the Congress position on the Communal Award; it contested the elections to the central legislature that year. The efficient way through the code is to notice that the four options are not four different orderings but two binary choices. Every option ends either 1-2 or 2-1, and every option begins either 3-4 or 4-3. BHU (1916) plainly precedes the Congress Nationalist Party (1934), so the tail must be 1-2, which eliminates options (c) and (d) at a stroke. That leaves only the head: the Allahabad hostel of 1901 came before the newspaper of 1909, so the sequence opens 4-3, and option (b) is the only survivor.
- (a)3-4-1-2 — Gets the tail right — BHU before the Congress Nationalist Party — but opens with the newspaper before the hostel. 'The Leader' was started in 1909, eight years after the Hindu Boarding House of 1901, so 3 cannot precede 4. This is the trap option: it fails on the single earliest date in the list, the one least likely to be remembered.
- (c)4-3-2-1 — Opens correctly with the hostel and the newspaper, then inverts the last two by placing the Congress Nationalist Party (1934) before the founding of BHU (1916). Malaviya's party belongs to the constitutional politics of the 1930s, after the Communal Award; the university belongs to the pre-war and war years. An eighteen-year gap is being reversed here.
- (d)3-4-2-1 — Wrong at both ends — newspaper before hostel, and party before university. It is the exact reverse of the correct code in both of the two binary choices the option set offers, so a candidate who guesses this one has, in effect, got both decisions wrong rather than one.
Malaviya's public life runs along one continuous line — institutions for education and for opinion — and the four items in this list are four points on it, spread over three decades. He was a lawyer at Allahabad who built a students' hostel there in 1901, gave the province an English daily in 1909, founded Banaras Hindu University in 1916 after a nationwide fund-raising effort, and, late in life, broke with the Congress leadership over the Communal Award to form the Congress Nationalist Party in 1934. He was also four times a figure of the Congress presidency, taking the chair for the first time at the Lahore session of 1909 — the same session this paper asks about separately in its Match List item.
Chronological-sequence items are a fixed feature of the EPFO EO/AO history block. They look harder than single-fact recall and usually are not, because the four printed codes never cover all twenty-four possible orderings — typically only two positions actually vary. The habit rewarded is to compare the codes first, work out which decisions the paper is really asking you to make, and then spend your recall only on those.
- 1901 — Malaviya founded the Hindu Boarding House (Hindu Hostel) at Allahabad.
- 1909 — he started the English daily 'The Leader' at Allahabad and was its editor in the early years.
- 1909 — he also presided over the Indian National Congress for the first time, at the Lahore session.
- 1915 — the Banaras Hindu University Act was passed; the university was established in 1916.
- 1934 — the Congress Nationalist Party was formed by Malaviya with M.S. Aney and contested the central legislature elections of that year.
- The Communal Award of 1932 is the background to the 1934 split; Malaviya's objection was to the Congress handling of it.
- Malaviya presided over the Congress more than once, including the Delhi session of 1918.
- Assuming the newspaper came first because journalism 'sounds' earlier in a public career. Here the hostel (1901) predates the paper (1909).
- Placing BHU after the Congress Nationalist Party. The university is 1916; the party is 1934.
- Confusing the Banaras Hindu University Act of 1915 with the establishment of the university in 1916 — a sequence item can be decided by either, but do not report one date as the other.
- Trying to order all four events from scratch when only two positions vary across the four printed codes.
EPFO EO/AO puts one or two chronology items in each history block, usually built on a single personality or a single movement. The events chosen are rarely the most famous ones, which is deliberate: the paper is testing whether a candidate can date the second-tier facts of a life he already knows in outline.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Banaras Hindu University was established in the year :
- (a)1905
- (b)1909
- (c)1916
- (d)1934
Answer(c) 1916
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Congress Nationalist Party, formed in 1934, was founded by Madan Mohan Malaviya along with :
- (a)M.S. Aney
- (b)N.C. Kelkar
- (c)C.Y. Chintamani
- (d)Bhupendra Nath Bose
Answer(a) M.S. Aney