History

Pakistan defeated India in the final of the 1971 Hockey World Cup to win the tournament. This is a well-documented historical fact in field hockey history.

After the failure of the War of Independence in 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled and imprisoned in Rangoon (present-day Yangon, Myanmar) by the British colonial authorities.

The First Anglo-Sikh War was fought between 1845 and 1846, marking the conflict between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company.

The Nehru Report was published in April 1928 as a proposal by the Indian National Congress for constitutional reforms in British India. Therefore, option C is correct.

Emperor Jahangir granted the East India Company permission to establish a factory and reside in Surat, facilitating their trade operations in India. This was a significant early step in the Company's expansion in the region.

The Indian Councils Act, also known as the Minto-Morley Reforms, was enacted in 1909. This act introduced significant changes to the legislative councils in British India, including the introduction of separate electorates for Muslims.

The All India Khilafat Committee was formed on 5 August 1919 to coordinate the Khilafat Movement in India. Therefore, option B is correct, not A.

The Treaty of Amritsar, signed on 16 March 1846, formalized the sale of Kashmir by the British East India Company to Raja Gulab Singh of Jammu. According to multiple historical sources, including the treaty text and scholarly analyses, Gulab Singh purchased Kashmir for 75 lakh (7.5 million) Nanakshahi rupees, not 80 lakh as sometimes mistakenly cited. This amount was to be paid in installments along with symbolic tributes such as a horse, shawl goats, and Kashmir shawls. The treaty marked the beginning of Dogra rule in Kashmir after the First Anglo-Sikh War and the collapse of the Sikh Empire following Maharaja Ranjit Singh's death.

The incident in 1971 that provided India the opportunity to attack Pakistan was the skirmishes on the border, which escalated tensions leading to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The other options are either incorrect or unrelated to that specific historical event.

At the time of the 1947 partition of British India, India agreed to pay Pakistan a financial settlement as part of the division of assets. The agreed amount was approximately 75 crore Indian Rupees. This figure is historically documented as the financial share Pakistan was to receive after partition. The options given include 75 crore as option A, which is the correct amount. Therefore, the correct answer is A: 75 crore. The initial confusion in the explanation about typographical errors is incorrect; 75 crore is the historically accurate figure.