The active participant of the Bundela rebellion of 1842 Hirdeshah was Jamindar of which of the following place ?
- (a)Chanwarpatha
- (b)Deori
- (c)Suatala
- (d)Hirapur
Correct — D, Hirapur. Hirde Shah (the paper prints 'Hirdeshah') was the zamindar of Hirapur and one of the active leaders of the Bundela revolt of 1842, an armed uprising in the Sagar–Narmada (Bundelkhand) tracts of present-day Madhya Pradesh against British land-revenue and settlement policies. It is remembered as one of the important pre-1857 anti-British risings of central India.
- (a)Chanwarpatha — A locality in the Sagar–Narmada region, but not the zamindari held by Hirde Shah — the rebel leader named in the question was seated at Hirapur, not here.
- (b)Deori — Another place in the same Bundelkhand belt; it was not Hirde Shah's estate. The question specifically ties Hirde Shah to Hirapur.
- (c)Suatala — A different locality of the region and not Hirde Shah's seat; it does not answer 'zamindar of which place'.
The Bundela revolt of 1842 (Bundela vidroh) was a rebellion of zamindars and peasants in the Sagar–Damoh–Narmada territories of Bundelkhand against newly imposed British revenue demands, land-settlement rules and the erosion of the old chiefs' authority. It was suppressed by the British but is treated as an early expression of anti-colonial resistance in central India, roughly fifteen years before 1857.
MPPSC repeatedly asks 'which leader belonged to which place' for regional freedom struggles. The trap here is that all four options are genuine central-India place names; the discriminator is the specific pairing Hirde Shah ↔ Hirapur.
- 1842 Bundela revolt: an uprising in the Sagar–Narmada (Bundelkhand) territories of present-day MP against British revenue/land policy.
- Hirde Shah, zamindar of Hirapur, was among its active leaders.
- It is counted as a pre-1857 anti-British rising of central India.
- The Bundelas were the Rajput ruling clan of the Bundelkhand region.
The question pairs the rebel leader Hirde Shah with his zamindari, Hirapur.
- Confusing the 1842 Bundela revolt with the wider 1857 revolt in Bundelkhand.
- Mixing up look-alike central-India place names in leader–place matching.
MPPSC phrases this as 'leader X belonged to / was zamindar of which place' for MP's regional revolts; lock the pair Hirde Shah ↔ Hirapur (1842 Bundela revolt).
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Bundela revolt of 1842 broke out mainly in which region of present-day Madhya Pradesh?
- (a)Malwa plateau
- (b)Sagar–Narmada (Bundelkhand) territories
- (c)Baghelkhand
- (d)Nimar
Answer(b) The Sagar–Narmada (Bundelkhand) territories — the core area of the 1842 uprising.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The 1842 Bundela revolt is historically significant chiefly because it was:
- (a)a religious reform movement
- (b)an early anti-British armed uprising preceding the Revolt of 1857
- (c)a trade guild agitation
- (d)a palace coup within a princely state
Answer(b) an early anti-British armed uprising that preceded 1857.