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Question 01
According to biographical accounts, Mallu Swarajyam began her public life at about the age of eleven by
1. Option A: offering rice to bonded labourers
2. Option B: working as a clerk in a revenue office
3. Option C: leading a procession to the Nizam's palace
4. Option D: performing in burra katha troupes
Answer and explanation
Answer: A. offering rice to bonded labourers
**Why A is correct.** She began her public career as a child by **offering rice to bonded labourers**, an early act against the **bonded labour** system. **Why B is incorrect.** Working as a **clerk in a revenue office** does not fit her early public life. **Why C is incorrect.** Leading a **procession to the Nizam's palace** is not recorded as her first public act. **Why D is incorrect.** Performing in **burra katha** troupes is not what accounts record as the start of her public life.
Question 02
At its peak the peasant militia is estimated to have comprised
1. Option A: about 1,000 village squad members and about 200 regular guerrillas
2. Option B: about 2,000 village squad members and about 10,000 regular guerrillas
3. Option C: about 10,000 village squad members and about 2,000 regular guerrillas
4. Option D: about 50,000 village squad members and about 5,000 regular guerrillas
Answer and explanation
Answer: C. about 10,000 village squad members and about 2,000 regular guerrillas
**Why C is correct.** The militia is estimated at about **10,000 village squad members** and about **2,000 regular guerrilla** fighters. **Why A is incorrect.** **1,000** and **200** understate a force that held large tracts of the countryside. **Why B is incorrect.** Reversing the figures makes the **regular guerrillas** five times the village squads, which inverts the structure of a village militia backed by a smaller core. **Why D is incorrect.** **50,000** squad members and **5,000** guerrillas overstate the militia several times over.
Question 03
Visnoor Ramachandra Reddy's domain is described as covering about 40,000 acres and roughly how many villages?
1. Option A: About 6 villages
2. Option B: About 60 villages
3. Option C: About 160 villages
4. Option D: About 600 villages
Answer and explanation
Answer: B. About 60 villages
**Why B is correct.** His domain is described as covering about **60 villages** and **40,000 acres**. **Why A is incorrect.** **Six villages** is far too few for 40,000 acres. **Why C is incorrect.** **160 villages** overstates the extent. **Why D is incorrect.** **600 villages** greatly overstates the extent.
Question 04
The commonly cited estimate of communists and peasant militants killed during the Telangana armed struggle is about
1. Option A: 400
2. Option B: 4,000
3. Option C: 14,000
4. Option D: 40,000
Answer and explanation
Answer: B. 4,000
**Why B is correct.** The standard estimate is about **4,000** killed, though some investigators put the figure nearer 6,000. **Why A is incorrect.** **400** understates the toll by a factor of ten. **Why C is incorrect.** **14,000** overstates the toll more than threefold. **Why D is incorrect.** **40,000** overstates the toll tenfold.
Question 05
Consider the following statements about Anabheri Prabhakar Rao: 1. After the September 1947 call, he led a squad that burnt the records of patels and patwaris in about forty villages in January 1948. 2. He was killed in action in 1951, after the withdrawal of the armed struggle. 3. A statue of him stands in Karimnagar. Which of the statements given above are correct?
1. Option A: 1 and 2 only
2. Option B: 2 and 3 only
3. Option C: 1 and 3 only
4. Option D: 1, 2 and 3
Answer and explanation
Answer: C. 1 and 3 only
**Statement 1 is correct.** In **January 1948** he led a squad that burnt **patel and patwari records** in about **forty villages**. **Statement 2 is incorrect.** He was killed in **March 1948** near **Husnabad**, not in 1951 after the withdrawal. **Statement 3 is correct.** A **statue** was erected in **Karimnagar** on 12 January 1994.

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