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Consider the following statements regarding the tenures of Governors-General and Viceroys of India and the policies, acts, or major historical events implemented by them:
- 1. During the tenure of Lord William Bentinck, the Charter Act of 1833 was passed, through which the Governor-General of Bengal was made the 'Governor-General of India', and under the same act, the abolition of the Sati system and the English education system on Macaulay's recommendation were given legal validity.
- 2. Lord Dalhousie annexed the Satara princely state into the British Empire for the first time under the 'Doctrine of Lapse' during his tenure, and along with this, the Public Works Department (PWD) was established for the first time in India and the first railway line between Bombay and Thane was started.
- 3. During the tenure of Lord Lytton, the 'Vernacular Press Act' was passed in the year 1878, the main objective of which was to restrict the freedom of Indian language newspapers, and parallelly, keeping arms by Indians was made a punishable offense through the 'Arms Act'.
- 4. Lord Curzon passed the 'Indian Universities Act' in 1904 as part of a series of administrative reforms, through which government control over universities was tightened, and immediately following this, the official partition of Bengal was announced in
- 5.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are completely true?
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Detailed Explanation
All statements (2, 3 and 4) in this question are factually completely true, while statement 1 is partially incorrect because the abolition of the Sati system was done by Lord William Bentinck under Regulation XVII of 1829, not through the Charter Act of 1833 (though he was made the Governor-General of India by the 1833 Charter). Thus, the correct option is b.
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