RAS question
Which Rajasthan place is identified with Bundi palaces in tourism accounts and with Barad-Gurjar farmer movements in the cited history?
Correct answer: (A) Bundi.
Bundi is the Rajasthan place identified both with palace tourism and with the Barad-Gurjar peasant movement in RajRAS.
Explanation
Bundi fits both halves of the clue. The Rajasthan Tourism page for Bundi presents Garh Palace Bundi as a major palace attraction and describes it as a large complex of palaces associated with Rajput architecture, including Chhatra Mahal, Phool Mahal, Badal Mahal and Chitrashala. RajRAS separately lists a Bundi/Barad Peasant Movement, locating it in the Barad region of Bundi state and noting that farmers of Lambakhoh began the movement in Nimna around 1922-23. The same account records a large protest by Gurjar farmers in the Barad region on 5 October 1936. That shared Bundi link makes option A the only place that satisfies both the tourism and peasant-history references.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) Bikaner does not match the clue because it belongs to a separate account of later jagir-area farmer movements, not to the Bundi/Barad-Gurjar reference.
- (C) Alwar is wrong because it is linked with the Nimuchana and Mev movements rather than the Barad region of Bundi state.
- (D) Jaipur is wrong because it is connected through Shekhawati activity, which is a different regional peasant-movement context from Bundi/Barad.
Concept
This tests the RAS habit of linking Rajasthan places across cultural tourism and regional peasant movements. It recurs because one district name can anchor both monument identification and socio-economic history.