Question

The younghushand Mission to Tibet was sent by which Viceroy?
1. Ripon
2. Lytton
3. Mayo
4. Curzon

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Curzon

The correct answer is Curzon.

• Lord Curzon sent Younghusband mission (A military expedition) to Tibet to resist the Russian infiltration to Tibet and solve the boundary dispute over the border between Tibet and Sikkim.
  •  Lord Curzon was a British Statesman, a supporter of the Conservative Party, served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.
  • With his appointment as the Viceroy, he Immediately introduced reform and pressed Calcutta Corporation Act, 1899.
  • He reduced the number of elected members in Calcutta Municipal Corporation and increased the strength of British members, thereby giving British members a majority.
  • By the implementation of this Act, Calcutta Corporation became merely an Anglo-Indian House.
• Indian members were not happy with this Act, so the whole of 28 members resigned from the Corporation to show their discontent.

 

Ripon	Lord Ripon remained India’s Viceroy from 1880-84. The most important events during this time were as follows: The Vernacular Press Act was repealed in 1882. A Resolution in 1882 set off the institution of local self-government in India. Hunter Commission came in 1882 for education reforms. Introduction of Ilbert Bill is a severely compromised state. His best-known work is “The Imperial Gazetteer of India” on which he started working in 1869.
Lytton	Lord Lytton passed the Vernacular Press Act in 1878. By this act, the magistrates of the districts were empowered, without the prior permission of the Government, to call upon a printer and publisher of any kind to enter into a Bond, undertaking not to publish anything which might “rouse” feelings of disaffection against the government.
Mayo	Lord Mayo or Lord Naas served as 4th Viceroy of India from 12 January 1869 to 8 February 1872. He started the process of decentralization of finance. In foreign affairs, he followed the policy of non-intervention. He setting up of Department of Revenue, Agriculture and Commerce. He stabilised the northwestern frontier of India by cultivating closer relationships with Sher Ali, the emir of Afghanistan.