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Modern history miscellaneous
  1. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
    1. Lord Dalhousie – Doctrine of Lapse
    2. Lord Minto – Indian Councils Act, 1909
    3. Lord Wellesley – Subsidiary Alliance
    4. Lord Curzon – Vernacular Press Act, 1878
Correct Option: D

The Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878 under the Governor Generalship and Viceroyalty of Lord Lytton, for ‘better control” of Indian language newspapers. The purpose of the Act was to control the printing and circulation of seditious material, calculated to produce disaffection, which was already present, against the British Government in India in the minds of the masses.


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