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WBCS Main Examination 2023 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 75 of 200

Q75
Indian National MovementRise of Nationalism & the Congress
Who among the following Viceroys ridiculed the Indian National Congress as ‘representing only a microscopic minority of people’?
  1. a.Lord Canning
  2. b.Lord Elgin
  3. c.Lord Lawrence
  4. d.Lord Dufferin

Answer: (D) Lord Dufferin

Lord Dufferin, Viceroy when the Congress was founded, dismissed it in 1888 as representing only a ‘microscopic minority’ of the people. Canning, Elgin and Lawrence were Viceroys before the Congress existed.

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