In each question, one sentence is given in which certain words are in bold and numbered from A to E. Below the sentence are given five options with possible pairs of interchange of those bold words. Choose the pair(s) of words which are needed to be interchanged to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

 

With the fall of Bijapur and Golconda to Aurangzeb’s (A)forces less than a decade after the (B)inscription was issued, the Dakhni tradition was almost entirely (C)relevance, as its (D)elites no longer held any (E)extinguished.