Match the following freedom fighters with their areas of revolution.
List-I: 1. Raja Mardan Singh 2. Raja Daulat Singh 3. Raja Bakhatvali 4. Murad Ali
List-II (Area): (i) Nemawar (ii) Bhanpur (iii) Sh

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Match the following freedom fighters with their areas of revolution.
List-I: 1. Raja Mardan Singh 2. Raja Daulat Singh 3. Raja Bakhatvali 4. Murad Ali
List-II (Area): (i) Nemawar (ii) Bhanpur (iii) Shahgarh (iv) Mhow

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Correct — A: (1)-(ii), (2)-(i), (3)-(iii), (4)-(iv). Per MPPSC's official key, Raja Mardan Singh is paired with Bhanpur, Raja Daulat Singh with Nemawar, Raja Bakhatvali with Shahgarh, and Murad Ali with Mhow. The first two pairs align with well-documented history: Raja Mardan Singh of Banpur (the key's 'Bhanpur') was a princely-state ruler in the Sagar-Bundelkhand belt who coordinated 1857 resistance with Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi, and Raja Bakhatvali (Bakht Bali) of Shahgarh fought alongside him — the two rajas jointly held territory before British forces under Sir Hugh Rose drove them back into Bundelkhand. The Daulat Singh–Nemawar and Murad Ali–Mhow pairs follow the same official key.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Swaps items 1 and 2 — puts Mardan Singh at Nemawar and Daulat Singh at Bhanpur, the reverse of the official pairing for those two.  (c) Reassigns all four areas in a different permutation (Mardan Singh–Shahgarh, Daulat Singh–Mhow, Bakhatvali–Nemawar, Murad Ali–Bhanpur) — none of the four pairs matches the official key.  (d) Pairs Mardan Singh with Mhow and Murad Ali with Bhanpur, among other swaps — again none of the four pairs is correct.

Concept: This is a match-the-following on local leaders of the 1857 revolt within present-day Madhya Pradesh. Beyond the nationally famous flashpoints (Jhansi, Gwalior, Indore), the uprising drew in a network of smaller princely rulers across the Sagar-Bundelkhand belt — Banpur (Bhanpur) and Shahgarh among them — plus cantonment-town unrest further south and east, such as at Mhow.

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