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Direction: In the following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blank out of the four alternatives.

Passage - 3

In 1893, Lokmanya Tilak converted the Ganpati festival into a public ceremony. He campaigned (48) the wide circulation of this public celebration throughout Maharashtra. It was (49) this festival that he could advise public places to the nationalist movement. The desired publicity of this festival was further (50) by Shivaji festival. It was inaugurated in honour of Chhatrapati Shivaji, the greatest Maratha king, in the (51) of several thousand people. In the activity the Marathas were (52) and this helped a lot in mounting an attack on the British rule.

A) protest              

B) honour

C) service              

D) presence