Consider the following and arrange the following battles in chronological order:  I. Battle of Sarnal II. Battle of Bilgram III. Battle of Dharmat IV. Battle of Jajau Select the correct answer from the codes given below:  Codes

The correct sequence is Bilgram (1540), Sarnal (1540), Dharmat (1657), Jajau (1707), which is option A. Bilgram was fought on 17 May 1540, when Sher Shah Suri defeated Humayun. It is also called the Battle of Kannauj. Sarnal, a later engagement in the same Humayun-Sher Shah contest, came in the same year, after Bilgram, and that is why it follows II in the sequence.

• Option B is wrong because Sarnal belongs to 1540, not to the later period. Placing it last is a dating error.
• Option C is wrong because Dharmat (15 April 1657) is a war of succession between Aurangzeb and Dara Shikoh. It cannot come before the 1540 battles.
• Option D is malformed and cannot be the intended order, since it places Sarnal before Bilgram.

The core concept is the Mughal-Sur contest of the 1540s, which ended Humayun's first reign and led to Suri rule. For Mains, it links to the question of why Mughal succession wars were so frequent. Dharmat (1657) and Jajau (1707) mark the later succession struggles, where Aurangzeb and Bahadur Shah I each won by defeating rival princes.

Trap: candidates often treat Sarnal as a later battle or confuse it with the 1540 Kannauj campaign. Keep the 1540 events together and anchor the Mughal succession wars in 1657 and 1707.