UPSC History Expansion Company and Bengal Nawabs Question Bank British Rule and Its Impacts and Regional Powers

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    Lord Curzon is best known for which of the following?

    A)  Universities Act 1904

    B)  Partition of Bengal in 1905

    C)  Indian Council Act 1892

    D)  Government of India Act 1909

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

     Lord Curzon is best known for partition of Bengal in 1905. The partition of Bengal into two provinces was effected on 4 July 1905. The new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam included the whole of Assam and the Dacca, Rajshahi and Chittagong divisions of Bengal with headquarters at Dacca. Though Curzon justified his action on administrative lines, partition divided the Hindus and Muslims in Bengal.


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