Change the sentence from direct speech to indirect speech.
He said, "Subhas Chandra Bose was born into wealth and privilage in a large Bengali family in Orissa."
He said that Subhas Chandra Bose had been born into wealth and privilege in a large Bengali family in Orissa.
No handwritten mark was visible on this question in the scanned booklet, so the answer is determined by grammar rules. Reported speech requires the simple past 'was born' to shift back to the past perfect 'had been born,' making option B the grammatically correct choice; the other options either keep the tense unchanged or drop the auxiliary verb.
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