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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2021 — General Studies · Question 124 of 200

Q124
Indian National MovementBritish Policy, Acts & Constitutional Reforms
New Delhi, the new Capital of India was inaugurated by Lord Irwin in the year
  1. a.1905
  2. b.1911
  3. c.1931
  4. d.1947

Answer: (C) 1931

The transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi was announced by George V at the Delhi Durbar of December 1911 (option B is the trap), and Lord Hardinge moved there in 1912; but the new city designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker took two decades to build and was formally inaugurated by Lord Irwin on 13 February 1931. 1905 is the year of the Partition of Bengal and 1947 that of independence. Lutyens designed the Viceroy's House (Rashtrapati Bhavan) and India Gate; Baker designed the Secretariat blocks and Parliament House.

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