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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2016 — General Studies · Question 72 of 200

Q72
Indian National MovementRevolutionary Movement
Who committed the murder of Sir Curzon Wyllie in 1907?
  1. a.B. N. Dutta
  2. b.M. L. Dhingra
  3. c.Sardar Ajit Singh
  4. d.S. C. Chatterjee

Answer: (B) M. L. Dhingra

Madan Lal Dhingra shot and killed Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a British political aide-de-camp, at the Imperial Institute in London on July 1, 1909 (not 1907 as printed — the question has a year error). Dhingra was inspired by Veer Savarkar and was hanged on August 17, 1909.

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