Arrange chronologically the following : A. Establishment of Delhi University…

Concept. A chronological arrangement is settled by exactly one rule: anchor every listed item to the year in which it came into being, then read the items in ascending order of those years. The prestige, size, scope or type of an institution has no bearing on where it sits in such a sequence — only its date of establishment does.

Application. Anchor each of the five bodies to its year of establishment (taken here in the order the question lists them):

Now sort those years in ascending order, 1887 to 1985:

1. 1887 — University of Allahabad, one of the oldest modern universities in India.

2. 1922 — University of Delhi, set up by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly.

3. 1953 — University Grants Commission, later made a statutory body by the UGC Act of 1956.

4. 1961 — NCERT, the apex body for school-education research and training.

5. 1985 — IGNOU, India’s national open university.

The chronological sequence is therefore University of Allahabad, University of Delhi, University Grants Commission, NCERT, IGNOU — that is, D, A, B, C, E.

Cross-check. The two datings of the UGC (formed in 1953, statutory from 1956) do not disturb the sequence, because both years fall between 1922 and 1961, so its position is stable either way. The order also matches the broad historical logic of Indian higher education: colonial-era universities first, then the post-independence regulatory body, then the school-education research council, and finally the open university of the 1980s.