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WBCS Prelims · questions per subject, 2018 to 2024
Subject2018201920202021202220232024AvgTrend
Indian National Movement3139333127273331.6Falling
Current Affairs & General Knowledge3324222927263027.3Steady
English2525252625252525.1Steady
Geography (incl. West Bengal)2325302324232224.3Steady
General Science2320202225252422.7Rising
History of India2112161823231518.3Rising
Reasoning1622181314141015.3Falling
Indian Polity721121620151114.6Rising
Arithmetic118111411111611.7Rising
Indian Economy104138411149.1Steady
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#1Indian National Movement1857 to 1947: reform movements, the Congress, Gandhi, revolutionaries221questions · about 32 a paper#2Current Affairs & General KnowledgeEvents, awards, sport, books, schemes and West Bengal191questions · about 27 a paper#3EnglishVocabulary, idioms, grammar and sentence use176questions · about 25 a paper#4Geography (incl. West Bengal)India and West Bengal: rivers, climate, resources, people170questions · about 24 a paper#5General SciencePhysics, chemistry, biology and environment159questions · about 23 a paper#6History of IndiaAncient and medieval India, the Mughals and the coming of the British128questions · about 18 a paper#7ReasoningSeries, coding, analogies, blood relations, directions107questions · about 15 a paper#8Indian PolityConstitution, Parliament, courts and local government102questions · about 15 a paper#9ArithmeticPercentages, ratio, time and work, averages82questions · about 12 a paper#10Indian EconomyPlanning, banking, the RBI and the budget64questions · about 9 a paper

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Prelims 2024 · Q103Indian National MovementBritish Policy, Acts & Constitutional Reforms

Who was the first Indian ruler to join the Subsidiary Alliance?

  1. aPeshwa Bajirao II
  2. bThe King of Travancore
  3. cThe Nawab of Oudh
  4. dThe Nizam of Hyderabad Correct
Explanation

The Subsidiary Alliance was the system used by Lord Wellesley (1798-1805) under which an Indian ruler kept a British force in his territory and paid for it (in cash or by ceding land), accepted a British Resident, employed no other Europeans and gave up independent foreign relations. The Nizam of Hyderabad was the first to accept it, in 1798. Others followed: Mysore and Tanjore (1799), Awadh (1801), Peshwa Baji Rao II by the Treaty of Bassein (1802), then the Bhonsle and Scindia (1803). So options A and C are later entrants. Do not confuse it with Dalhousie's Doctrine of Lapse (Satara, 1848).

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Indian National Movement gave 221 questions across the last 7 Prelims papers, between 27 and 39 a year. Its two biggest chapters alone supply 70 of them.

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Indian National Movement · chaptersQuestions
Rise of Nationalism & the CongressEvery year41
Gandhian Era: Khilafat, NCM, CDMEvery year29
Socio-Religious & Educational ReformEvery year23
Quit India, INA & Towards Independence6 of 7 years22
Revolutionary MovementEvery year22
British Policy, Acts & Constitutional Reforms6 of 7 years21
Peasant, Tribal & Labour Movements5 of 7 years13

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