The shrewd manager left Samarth (1) / with no choice however to resign from (2) / the post by transferring him to (3) / an entirely remote and hostile location. (4) / No error (5)

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1. Identify the faulty part: part (2) reads "with no choice however to resign from" and contains a misplaced word.

2. Rule/idiom: The correct idiom is "no choice but to <verb>". The conjunction "but" is required to connect "no choice" with the action that follows.

3. Why it's wrong: "However" is an adverb and cannot replace the conjunction "but" in this construction; here it is ungrammatical and breaks the idiom. To use "however" correctly would require different punctuation and sentence structure (e.g., ", however, ...").

4. Correction: Replace "however" with "but" so the phrase becomes "with no choice but to resign from the post", which is grammatically and idiomatically correct.

Therefore the error is in part (2), so option b is correct.
FINAL_ANSWER: b

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