Consider the following Peshwas and arrange them in ascending chronological order:1.Raghunath Rao (Raghoba)2.Balaji Baji Rao3.Narayan Rao4.Balaji VishwanathSelect the correct answer from the codes given below:

1. A

   4, 2, 3, 1

   4, 2, 3, 1. Balaji Vishwanath (1713, Shahu’s first Peshwa) → Balaji Baji Rao / Nana Saheb (1740–61) → Narayan Rao (1772–73) → Raghunath Rao / Raghoba (Peshwa after Narayan Rao’s murder, 1773). That is earliest-to-latest among the four names.

2. B

   3, 4, 1, 2

   3, 4, 1, 2. Starts with Narayan Rao (1772). He comes after both Balaji Vishwanath and Balaji Baji Rao, so this cannot be ascending order.

3. C

   1, 2, 3, 4

   1, 2, 3, 4. Starts with Raghunath Rao (Raghoba), who is the last of these four, not the first.

4. D

   1, 3, 2, 4

   1, 3, 2, 4. Again opens with Raghoba, and also parks Balaji Baji Rao after Narayan Rao. Both are the wrong way round.

Summary. Official key is (a) 4, 2, 3, 1. Ascending means earliest first. Balaji Vishwanath (item 4) was appointed Peshwa in 1713. Balaji Baji Rao (item 2) is Nana Saheb, Peshwa from 1740 until Panipat (1761) — not to be mixed with his father Baji Rao I (1720–40), who is not in this list. Narayan Rao (item 3) held the office briefly in 1772–73 and was assassinated. Raghunath Rao / Raghoba (item 1) then claimed the Peshwaship in 1773, which opened the First Anglo-Maratha War. So the only rising sequence is 4, 2, 3, 1.