Find out the chronological order of the following British Authorities /…
2024
Find out the chronological order of the following British Authorities / Persons who took an interest in higher education in India.
A. Lord Curzon
B. Lord Ripon
C. Lord Canning
D. Lord Dalhousie
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: C. D, C, B, A — ConceptA chronological ordering of colonial administrators is fixed by the period each man held office, not by how famous the reform attached to his name is.…
- A.
A, B, C, D
- B.
B, D, A, C
- C.
D, C, B, A
- D.
C, D, A, B
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Correct answer: C
Concept
A chronological ordering of colonial administrators is fixed by the period each man held office, not by how famous the reform attached to his name is. Every education measure of the British period falls inside the term of the Governor-General or Viceroy who was in office when it was taken, so settling the four terms of office settles the sequence.
Application
Anchor each name to its term in India and to the higher-education step taken during that term:
Administrator | Term in India | Higher-education step |
|---|---|---|
Lord Dalhousie | Governor-General, 1848–1856 | Wood's Despatch, 1854 — the blueprint for a graded school-to-university system |
Lord Canning | Governor-General and first Viceroy, 1856–1862 | Universities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras founded, 1857 |
Lord Ripon | Viceroy, 1880–1884 | Hunter Education Commission appointed, 1882 |
Lord Curzon | Viceroy, 1899–1905 | Raleigh Commission, 1902 and the Indian Universities Act, 1904 |
Laying those steps on a timeline gives 1854, 1857, 1882, 1904, so the chronological sequence of the four men is Dalhousie, Canning, Ripon, Curzon — written with the labels used in the question, D, C, B, A.
Cross-check
The four terms of office are non-overlapping and run in the same sequence (1848–1856, 1856–1862, 1880–1884, 1899–1905), so ordering by tenure and ordering by education milestone agree, and no two of these names can be interchanged. The question lists the men in almost the reverse of that sequence, beginning with the latest of the four, which is the trap the item is built around.
Result: the chronological order of the four administrators is Dalhousie, Canning, Ripon, Curzon — D, C, B, A.