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India · 1904Curzon's centralising Acts and the gathering storm over Bengal's partition

Lord Curzon's interventionist laws defined 1904 — the Indian Universities Act, the Indian Official Secrets Act, the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act and the Co-operative Credit Societies Act — even as opposition to the proposed partition of Bengal mounted. Abroad, the Younghusband expedition reached Lhasa and led to the Convention of Lhasa.

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Key figures

Lord Curzon — Viceroy of India; associated with the Universities Act, Official Secrets Act, Ancient Monuments PreservatiSir Henry Cotton — President of the Indian National Congress, 20th session, Bombay, 1904.Gopal Krishna Gokhale — leading Moderate and prominent critic of the Indian Universities Act.Francis Younghusband — led the British expedition to Lhasa and signed the Convention of Lhasa, 1904.V.D. Savarkar — reorganised the Mitra Mela into the Abhinav Bharat Society at Nashik in 1904.Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata — pioneer of modern Indian industry; died on 19 May 1904.

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