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Who appointed a Board of Revenue for the North-Western province at Allahabad?
1. Lord Ripon
2. Lord Canning
3. William Bentinck
4. Lord Lytton

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Correct Answer - Option 3 : William Bentinck

The correct answer is William Bentinck.

  • William Bentinck :
    • Lord Bentinck, was a British soldier and statesman.
    • He served as Governor-General of India from 1828 to 1835.
    • He has been credited for significant social and educational reforms in India including abolishing sati, suppressing female infanticide and human sacrifice.
    • Bentinck said that "the dreadful responsibility hanging over his head in this world and the next, if… he was to consent to the continuance of this practice (sati) one moment longer."
    • Bentinck after consultation with the army and officials passed the Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829 there was little opposition.
    • Lord William Bentinck was the first governor general of British-occupied India.

  • Contribution :
    • Bentinck engaged in an extensive range of cost-cutting measures, earning the lasting enmity of many military men whose wages were cut.
    • Although historians emphasise his more efficient financial management, his modernising projects also included a policy of westernisation, influenced by the Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and James Mill, which was more controversial.
    • He reformed the court system.
    • Educational reforms :
      • Bentinck made English the medium of instruction after passing the English Education Act 1835.
      • English replaced Persian as the language of the higher courts.
      • He founded the Calcutta Medical college.
    • Abolition of Sati.
    • Ban on female infanticide and human sacrifice.
    • The Saint Helena Act 1833, also called the Charter Act of 1833, was passed during Bentinck's tenure and, accordingly, the monopoly of the East India Company was abolished.

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