Direction: In the following question, sentences of a paragraph have been jumbled and labelled as A, B, C and D. You are required to rearrange the jumbled sentences of the paragraph and mark your response accordingly by selecting the correct option.
 

A. The effort was to know the topography, the soil quality, the flora, the fauna, the local histories, and the cropping pattern – all the facts seen as necessary to know about to administer the region.
B. From the end of the nineteenth century, Census operations were held every ten years.
C. By the early nineteenth century, detailed surveys were being carried out to map the entire country.
D. These prepared detailed records of the number of people in all the provinces of India, noting information on castes, religions and occupation.