Question

Lord Lytton was the Viceroy of India from
A.1868 to 1872
B.1876 to 1880
C.1878 to 1884
D.1885 to 1890

Answer 1

Hint:We will discuss lord lytton.Lord Lytton's repressive measures the Vernacular Press Act and the Indian Ans Act-bear testimony to the practice racial discrimination. The Ilbert Bill controversy also left an annoying sense of humiliation in the minds of educated Indians.

Complete answer:
Europeans managed to get off or got nominal punishment even for grave offences, the Indians were severely punished even for minor crimes.English Officers took pride in telling each other they liked to be a black fellow - Frederick John Shore in his work Notes on Indian Affair.
.Lord Lytton was the Viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880 to , His policy and deeds intensified discontentment in the country. Age-limit for the Civil Service Examination: the maximum age limit for the Civil Service Examination was reduced from twenty-one to nineteen This was a calculated move to ruin the prospects of Indian candidates for the Indian Civil Service,The Imperial Durbar: The Imperial Durbar in Delhi in added insult to injury. Vernacular papers reacted sharply against this act of callous irresponsibility.The Press Regulations: The government tried to silence opposition by enacting the Vernacular Press Act and the Arms Act in 1878.The Vernacular Press Act crushed the freedom of the Vernacular papers. The Act required the editors to publish nothing that would excite disaffection against the Government. any editors who opposed the Act were sentenced to jail.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note:"Ranade was one of the brains working behind the Indian National Congress. He had been one of the seventy-two members who joined the first session of the Indian National Congress at Bombay. Even SO. Hume regarded him as his political guru The Indian Arms Act: The Indian Arms Act made it a criminal offence for Indians to keep or bear arms without licence.