Who founded the Mewar Praja Mandal in 1938?

Explanation

The Mewar Praja Mandal is associated with Manikya Lal Verma, who is credited with its establishment in 1938. Verma founded it to fight for the political rights of the people of Mewar against the autocratic rule of the Maharana of Udaipur. Testbook gives the credit for establishing the Mewar Praja Mandal to Manikya Lal Verma and records that, due to his efforts, it was established at Udaipur on 24 April 1938 under the chairmanship of Balwant Singh Mehta. That distinction matters: Balwant Singh Mehta appears in the organisational context, but the founding credit belongs to Verma.

Why the other options are wrong

• (B) Hiralal Shastri is not credited with founding the Mewar Praja Mandal.
• (C) Jai Narain Vyas is not linked to the establishment of the Mewar Praja Mandal.
• (D) Balwant Singh Mehta was chairman when the Mewar Praja Mandal was established at Udaipur, but the founding credit belongs to Manikya Lal Verma.

Concept

This tests the Praja Mandal movements in Rajasthan's freedom struggle, where founders, dates and princely-state contexts are easy to confuse. RAS uses such questions to check whether candidates can distinguish closely related regional political organisations.

Source

• Testbook

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