RAS question
The 'Rajputana Madhya Sabha' was established in 1919 at which place?
Correct answer: (D) Delhi.
The Rajputana Madhya Sabha was established in Delhi in 1919 to coordinate political activity across the princely states of Rajputana.
Explanation
Rajputana Madhya Sabha is linked to Delhi because the organisation was established there in 1919, at a moment when political workers from the princely states of Rajputana were trying to coordinate reform activity beyond individual state boundaries. The point of the Sabha was not simply to create another local association; it aimed to bring reform movements from different Rajputana states under one umbrella and press for constitutional reforms. For an RAS history question, that makes the place of establishment important: Delhi marks the inter-state, Congress-session-linked setting in which these activists sought a common political platform for Rajputana, rather than a movement confined to Ajmer, Udaipur, or Jaipur.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Ajmer is wrong because Delhi, not Ajmer, was the place where the Rajputana Madhya Sabha was established in 1919.
- (B) Udaipur is wrong because the Sabha was meant to coordinate political activity across Rajputana, but its establishment was in Delhi, not Udaipur.
- (C) Jaipur is wrong because the question tests the founding location, and the 1919 establishment was at Delhi rather than Jaipur.
Concept
This tests the RAS syllabus theme of political awakening and reform movements in princely Rajasthan. Such facts recur because associations like the Rajputana Madhya Sabha show how local reform currents began to connect through wider political platforms.