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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2018 — General Studies · Question 64 of 200

Q64
Indian National MovementBritish Policy, Acts & Constitutional Reforms
Which Governor General of India advocated rapid railway construction in India?
  1. a.Lord Cornwallis
  2. b.Lord Dalhousie
  3. c.Lord Hardinge
  4. d.Lord Hastings

Answer: (B) Lord Dalhousie

Lord Dalhousie (1848-56) set out the plan of trunk railway lines in his Railway Minute of 1853; the first train ran from Bombay to Thane on 16 April 1853. He also introduced the electric telegraph, the Post Office Act of 1854 and the Public Works Department, and applied the Doctrine of Lapse. Cornwallis is known for the Permanent Settlement (1793), Lord Hastings for the Third Anglo-Maratha War, and Lord Hardinge II for the transfer of the capital to Delhi (1911).

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