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India · 1899Curzon assumes office as Viceroy amid the Calcutta municipal rollback and the Great Famine

Lord Curzon's viceroyalty opened in January 1899, beginning a phase of administrative centralisation that curbed elected representation in Calcutta. A failed monsoon set off the 1899-1900 famine, while the gold-exchange standard fixed the rupee and the Lucknow Congress sharpened economic nationalism.

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Key figures

Lord Curzon — Viceroy from 6 January 1899; began a centralising viceroyalty (1899-1905)Romesh Chunder Dutt — President of the 1899 INC Lucknow session; economic historian and economic nationalistSurendranath Banerjee — led the resignation protest against the Calcutta Corporation Act, 1899Birsa Munda — leader of the Ulgulan in ChotanagpurSwami Vivekananda — associated with the establishment of Belur Math as the Ramakrishna Math headquarters in 1899 and begM.K. Gandhi — organised the Indian Ambulance Corps in the Second Boer War in South Africa

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