Concept:Arrange jumbled sentences into a logical sequence connecting S1 and S6.
Explanation:S1 introduces the ruin of towns and cities famous for handicrafts.
Sentence P names specific cities (Dacca, Surat, Murshidabad) that were rising industrial centres.
Sentence S completes the idea: “Cities which had withstood the…”
Sentence Q explains what they withstood: “ravages of war and plunder, failed to…”
Sentence R finishes the action: “survive British conquest.”
S6 concludes that these centres were developed and then laid to waste.
Thus the correct order is P → S → Q → R.
Answer:Option B: P S Q R