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Question
Answer the following:
(i) Name the person in the picture given alongside.
(ii) Which event the person showing in the picture was associated with? What justification he give for that incident.
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Solution
(i) Lord Curzon.
(ii) He was associated with Partition of Bengal. He gave justification that the Bengal province was too large to be administered by a single governor and thus was partitioned for administrative reasons.
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