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Rohan came across a shop that sold artefacts and vintage products. He found an old railway ticket there. The shopkeeper told him that the ticket was of the first railway passenger train in India. In that case, what should be the year mentioned on the ticket?

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1823
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1833
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1843
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1853
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Solution

The correct option is D 1853
The first passenger train of India flagged off its maiden journey on April 16, 1853 between Mumbai and Thane. Just over a decade from then, the Madras Railway Company opened Karnataka’s first railway line between Bengaluru and Madras in 1864.

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