In India the First Municipal Corporation was set up in which one among the following places?

1. A

   Calcutta

   Calcutta’s municipal corporation dates to 1726 (a royal charter under the East India Company), later than Madras. It is not the first in this list.

2. B

   Madras

   Madras (now Chennai) received a municipal corporation in 1688 under a charter of James II—the first such body in India. That is the official key.

3. C

   Bombay

   Bombay’s corporation likewise traces to a 1726 charter, contemporaneous with Calcutta, not 1688.

4. D

   Delhi

   Delhi’s modern municipal institutions are much later colonial and republican creations, not the first corporation.

Summary. Official key is (b) Madras. The 1688 corporation is the usual textbook ‘first’ municipal corporation in India. Calcutta and Bombay follow in 1726; Delhi is not in that early charter set. Honour the stored letter (b).