MPPSC 2021 Prelims Paper-I · Question 68 of 100

Correct — C and D (both accepted). The question asks which statement is INCORRECT, and MPPSC's final key accepted two: (d) is verifiably wrong — the rebel-sepoy government 'Sipahi Bahadur Sarkar' of 1857 was proclaimed at Sehore (about 40 km from Bhopal) by mutineers of the Bhopal Contingent under leaders such as Wali Shah and Havildar Mahavir, not at Indore. (c) was also accepted as incorrect — the genealogy it asserts ('son of Jhujar Singh, Devnath Singh of Ramgarh') does not match the documented history of Ramgarh state near Mandla, whose known 1857 leader was Rani Avantibai Lodhi, widow of Raja Vikramaditya Singh; no reliable source corroborates a Ramgarh ruler named Jhujar Singh or a son Devnath Singh (the name 'Jhujhar Singh' instead belongs to an unrelated 17th-century Bundela king of Orchha, over two centuries earlier).

• (a)Khaja and Bhima Nayak were the Bhil leaders who fought against the British rule. — This statement is TRUE, so it is not the answer — Bhima Naik and his associate Khaja (Khajya) Naik were real Bhil leaders of the Nimar region (around Barwani) who led tribal resistance against the British during and after 1857.
• (b)Shankar Shah was the freedom fighter from the Garha Mandla State. — This statement is TRUE, so it is not the answer — Raja Shankar Shah, the last ruler of the Garha-Mandla (Gondwana) kingdom, and his son Raghunath Shah were executed by being blown from a cannon at Jabalpur on 18 September 1857 for inciting rebellion through patriotic verse.

MPPSC prelims frequently tests region-specific facts about the 1857 revolt and the wider freedom movement within Madhya Pradesh — Bhil tribal resistance in Nimar, the Gond royal house of Garha-Mandla, and the rebel sepoy government at Sehore are recurring names. These are drawn from MP-specific local history rather than the national NCERT narrative, so precise names and places matter.

This is a 'find the false statement' question bundling four independent MP freedom-movement facts — a student must verify each name-place-role combination rather than pattern-match on general 1857 knowledge. Two statements (c, d) turned out to be wrong/unverifiable on scrutiny, which is why the commission's final key granted marks for either choice.

• Khaja Naik and Bhima Naik: Bhil leaders of the Nimar/Barwani region who resisted British rule around 1857-58
• Raja Shankar Shah of Garha-Mandla and his son Raghunath Shah: executed by cannon at Jabalpur, 18 September 1857
• 'Sipahi Bahadur Sarkar': a short-lived rebel government proclaimed at Sehore (not Indore) in August 1857 by mutineers of the Bhopal Contingent
• Ramgarh state's documented 1857 leader is Rani Avantibai Lodhi, not a 'Devnath Singh son of Jhujar Singh' as statement (c) claims

• Assuming every 1857-linked place name in the options is accurate without checking it against a real source
• Confusing the Bhopal Contingent's Sehore uprising with Indore, which also saw 1857 unrest but is not where 'Sipahi Bahadur Sarkar' was proclaimed

MPPSC likes 'which statement is incorrect' questions bundling 3-4 independent MP-specific freedom-movement facts — expect at least one deliberately wrong place/name pairing (as with Sehore vs Indore here).

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The rebel sepoy government 'Sipahi Bahadur Sarkar' was proclaimed in 1857 at:

  • (a)Indore
  • (b)Sehore
  • (c)Gwalior
  • (d)Jabalpur

  Answer(b) Sehore — proclaimed by mutineers of the Bhopal Contingent in August 1857.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Raja Shankar Shah and his son Raghunath Shah, rulers associated with Garha-Mandla, were executed by the British in 1857 at:

  • (a)Mandla
  • (b)Jabalpur
  • (c)Sehore
  • (d)Indore

  Answer(b) Jabalpur — blown from a cannon on 18 September 1857.