When did the Thona-Luhari firing incident of Niwari district take place in the Freedom Movement?
- (a)1922
- (b)1931
- (c)1939
- (d)1942
Correct — C, 1939. The Thona-Luhari firing took place on 8 February 1939 in present-day Niwari district (then part of Orchha State), when the state's police opened fire on freedom fighters — organised under the Bundelkhand State Congress Committee — who had gathered to hoist the national flag.
- (a)1922 — 1922 is the year of the Chauri Chaura incident and the withdrawal of the Non-Cooperation Movement — a different episode, not Thona-Luhari.
- (b)1931 — 1931 is the year of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact and the Karachi Congress session — not the year of the Thona-Luhari firing.
- (d)1942 — 1942 is the year of the Quit India Movement, a nationally prominent date that test-takers often default to — but it is not when Thona-Luhari occurred.
Princely states like Orchha (whose later capital was Tikamgarh) stood outside direct British administration but still saw local agitation for responsible government, organised through State Congress committees. The Thona-Luhari firing was one such episode: the Bundelkhand State Congress Committee (formed 1938) organised a march to hoist the national flag at Thona-Luhari, and the Orchha state's police opened fire on the unarmed gathering.
MPPSC likes to test the freedom movement's local, princely-state chapter — the exact year of a district-specific incident — separately from the mainstream British-India timeline (Non-Cooperation 1920-22, Civil Disobedience 1930s, Quit India 1942). The trap is defaulting to a well-known national year like 1942 instead of the actual local date.
- Thona-Luhari firing: 8 February 1939, in present-day Niwari district (then part of Orchha State)
- Organised under the Bundelkhand State Congress Committee, formed in 1938
- Firing occurred during a march to hoist the national flag
- Niwari district itself was carved out of Tikamgarh district only in 2018
The Thona-Luhari firing (8 February 1939) was the flashpoint that forced the Orchha princely state to concede reforms within months.
- Defaulting to a major national year (1942, Quit India) instead of the specific local incident year
- Confusing Niwari district's modern (2018) creation with the historical (1939) freedom-movement event that occurred in that area
MPPSC frequently asks the exact year of a district-specific freedom-movement incident in MP's princely states — memorise year, district and princely state together.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Niwari, formed in 2018, was carved out of which parent district of Madhya Pradesh?
- (a)Chhatarpur
- (b)Tikamgarh
- (c)Datia
- (d)Damoh
Answer(b) Tikamgarh — Niwari became a separate district by splitting off from Tikamgarh in 2018.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Bundelkhand State Congress Committee, which organised resistance against princely-state rule in the Bundelkhand region, was formed in which year?
- (a)1930
- (b)1935
- (c)1938
- (d)1942
Answer(c) 1938 — it was formed the year before the Thona-Luhari firing it helped organise.