Bheema Nayak was associated with which princely state?

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Correct — B, Barwani. Bhima Nayak was a Bhil tribal leader of the Barwani region (Western Nimar) who took up arms against British rule around the time of the 1857 revolt. He and his followers raided colonial treasuries and disrupted British supply lines between Barwani and Khandesh, earning him the popular title 'Robin Hood of Nimar' for redistributing looted wealth among the poor. He was eventually captured and hanged at the Port Blair penal settlement (Andaman Islands) on 29 December 1876.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Mandla was the seat of a different set of MP freedom fighters — the Gond ruler Raja Shankar Shah and his son Kunwar Raghunath Shah, executed by the British in 1858 for conspiring against colonial rule. It was not Bhima Nayak's base.  (c) Kishangarh was a Rajasthan princely state near Ajmer, known for its distinctive miniature-painting school — it has no historical connection to Bhima Nayak or the Bhil resistance of the Nimar region.  (d) No established historical record ties Bhima Nayak's uprising to a place called Mudiyado; his documented base of activity was Barwani in the Nimar tract.

Concept: Bhima Nayak's story belongs to the wider pattern of tribal (Bhil, Gond, Korku) resistance to British rule in the forested Nimar–Satpura belt of present-day Madhya Pradesh — distinct from, but contemporaneous with, the sepoy-led revolt of 1857. These tribal leaders fought using guerrilla tactics from forest bases rather than pitched battles, and several, including Bhima Nayak, were eventually hunted down and executed or transported by the British.

State PCS 2023 Q91 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2023 Q91 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer