Uchehara is a large centre of bronze craft. In which district of Madhya Pradesh is Uchehara located ?

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Correct — B, Satna. Uchehara is a town and tehsil headquarters in Satna district, in the Baghelkhand region of north-eastern Madhya Pradesh, and the commission's key marks (b) as the answer. The question is a pure place-location item: it gives you the craft (bronze casting) and asks only for the district, so the single fact that has to be locked in memory is Uchehara → Satna → Baghelkhand.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Balaghat lies at the other end of the state — the Satpura-Maikal belt of south-eastern MP, on the Maharashtra border. It is best known for manganese mining and dense forest, and it contains no place called Uchehara.  (c) Seoni is a Satpura-plateau district in southern MP (the Pench teak country). It is a different physiographic region altogether from the Baghelkhand plateau where Uchehara sits.  (d) Khandwa is in the Nimar region of south-western MP, on the Narmada. Uchehara is nowhere near it — Nimar and Baghelkhand are at opposite corners of the state.

Concept: Bronze craft means casting an alloy of copper and tin (brass is copper and zinc) into moulds to make idols, lamps, bells and utensils. The classic Indian technique is lost-wax casting (cire perdue): the artisan models the object in wax over a clay core, coats it in clay, heats the mould so the wax runs out, and pours molten metal into the cavity — so every piece is one of a kind because the mould is broken to release it. Uchehara in Satna district is one of the metal-craft clusters where this kind of casting work is carried on.

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