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Which one of the following places was not within the range of four or five karohs…

History · Administration and Economy UGC NET June 2015 History
Passage
There is an interesting case of the prohibition of drinking wine. The Sultan personally gave up drinking. The royal drinking vessels of glass and porcelain were broken before the Badaun Gate, and wine from the royal jars was poured out, creating mud and mire as in the rainy season. Then officers mounted on elephants proclaimed in the streets and lanes of Delhi that no one was to drink or sell liquor or go near it. The licensed tavern-keepers and distillers were driven out of Delhi and the revenue from them was written off. Persons of self-respect gave up drinking at the first warning, but others distilled liquor from sugar in their houses and sold it at a high price. Sultan Alauddin ordered dry wells to be dug near the Badaun Gate, and persons found disobeying his order were thrown into them. It was possible at the worst of times to go ten or twelve karohs out of Delhi for a good drink, but no drink was available within four or five karohs of Delhi in suburbs like Ghiyaspur, Indrapat and Kailugarhi. Ultimately the Sultan relented and ordered that if a man distilled liquor in his own house for his own use, and was not guilty of selling it or holding a drinking party, he was not to be molested.
Which one of the following places was not within the range of four or five karohs of Delhi?
ABahadurgarh ✓ Correct
BGhiyaspur
CIndrapat
DKailugarhi
Correct answer: (A) Bahadurgarh — Bahadurgarh was not within the range of four or five karohs of Delhi, so the answer is Bahadurgarh.
Explanation
Bahadurgarh was not within the range of four or five karohs of Delhi, so the answer is Bahadurgarh.
The passage names Ghiyaspur, Indrapat and Kailugarhi as suburbs of Delhi.
No drink was available within four or five karohs of these places.
Bahadurgarh, however, is not named among these nearby suburbs.
So it lay outside that range.
The passage shows how strictly Alauddin enforced his order near Delhi.

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