Reporter Grade II Malayalam 2026 — Kerala PSC PYQ Practice with Answers

Correct answer (Option A):\nDinabandhu Mitra wrote the famous Bengali play 'Neel Darpan' (The Mirror of Indigo) in 1860. The play vividly portrayed the severe exploitation and oppression suffered by indigo cultivators at the hands of British planters in Bengal. It played a major historical role in awakening public consciousness during the Indigo Revolt. Option A is correct.\n\nWhy others are wrong:\nOption B is incorrect because Jawaharlal Nehru was a modern nationalist leader and India's first Prime Minister, who wrote books like 'The Discovery of India'. Options C and D name completely unrelated historical figures who had no connection to 19th-century Bengali protest literature.\n\nRemember:\n'Neel Darpan' was translated into English by Michael Madhusudan Dutt and published by Reverend James Long, who was fined and jailed by the British for his involvement.

Correct answer (Option D):\nThe British Government appointed the Indian Statutory Commission, popularly known as the Simon Commission, in November 1927. The commission was established to study constitutional reforms and evaluate the working of the Government of India Act 1919. Option D is correct.\n\nWhy others are wrong:\nOption A is incorrect as no major constitutional reform body was formed in 1926. Option B is incorrect because 1935 marks the enactment of the Government of India Act itself, which followed years after the commission's report. Option C is incorrect because the commission arrived in India and conducted its main assessments in 1928 and 1929, but the formal appointment was in 1927.\n\nRemember:\nThe Simon Commission was composed entirely of British members, which led to widespread outrage and an absolute boycott by Indian political groups under the slogan 'Simon Go Back'.

Correct answer (Option B):\nLord Mountbatten was not a member of the Cabinet Mission. The Cabinet Mission, sent to India in 1946 by the British government to discuss the transfer of power, consisted of three British cabinet ministers: Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps, and A.V. Alexander. Option B is correct.\n\nWhy others are wrong:\nOption A is wrong because Pethick-Lawrence was the Secretary of State for India and headed the mission. Option C and Option D are wrong because A.V. Alexander (First Lord of the Admiralty) and Sir Stafford Cripps (President of the Board of Trade) were official active members of the three-man mission.\n\nRemember:\nLord Mountbatten came to India later, serving as the last Viceroy of British India appointed in 1947 to execute the final partition and independence plans.

Correct answer (Option B):\nThe historic Revolt of 1857 formally broke out at the military cantonment in Meerut (Mirat) on 10th May 1857. Indian sepoys mutinied against their British officers, broke open jail gates, liberated imprisoned comrades, and marched towards Delhi. Option B is correct.\n\nWhy others are wrong:\nOption A is incorrect because on 11th May, the mutinous soldiers reached Delhi to appeal to Bahadur Shah Zafar. Option C is incorrect because on 12th May, Delhi was captured by the rebels. Option D is incorrect as it represents dates after the revolution had already flared up in Meerut and Delhi.\n\nRemember:\nThe immediate trigger for the uprising was the introduction of the greased Enfield rifle cartridges, which sepoys believed contained grease made from beef and pork fat.

Correct answer (Option C):\nAl Qazwini, the renowned medieval Arab geographer and scholar, explicitly described Kollam (Quilon) as a prominent, beautiful, and highly significant trade city in India in his historical accounts. Option C is correct.\n\nWhy others are wrong:\nOption A is incorrect because Al-Biruni primarily focused on northern and central India in his works like 'Kitab-ul-Hind'. Option B is incorrect because Abdur Razzaq was a Persian scholar who visited and left extensive travel notes focusing mainly on the Vijayanagara Empire and Calicut. Option D is incorrect because although Ibn Battuta visited Kollam and described its trade, the specific citation matches the geographer Al Qazwini's descriptions.\n\nRemember:\nKollam was one of the oldest international trading ports on the Malabar Coast, maintaining extensive mercantile links with China, Rome, and Persia.