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Lord Curzon, 1898-1905
- Early years
- Educated at Eton and Balliol
College, Oxford
- Typical of his
class
- Typical of his
class
- Bullied for being
superior
- Educated at Eton and Balliol
College, Oxford
- Ambition
- Wanted to be Viceroy
of India since he was
young
- Worked in
Whitehall as
under-secretary of
state for India
(1891-92) and in the
foreign office
(1892-95
- Wanted to be Viceroy
of India since he was
young
- Ambition
achieved
- Imperialist
- Traditional British
view of India- 'Jewel
in the imperial
crown'
- Imperialist
- While Viceroy
he:
- Appointed a special
commission to study
administrative
procedures and, as a
result of this, proposed
office and procedural
reforms that helped the
administrative machine
run smoothly
- created a new
province, the
North West
Frontier, in
1901, carving it
out of the
Punjab and
bringing it
directly under
the control of
the Viceroy
- Moved control of the
Indian railway from the
department of public
works and brought it
under the control of its
own board, enabling
some 6,000 more miles
of track to be laid by
1905
- Appointed a
director- general of
archaeology
responsible for the
un-earthing,
preserving and
conserving India's
cultural past. he
took a personal
interest in restoring
the Taj Mahal.
- Appointed a special
commission to study
administrative
procedures and, as a
result of this, proposed
office and procedural
reforms that helped the
administrative machine
run smoothly
- Administrative failures
- Tried to administer every
department and local
government from his office
- Wanted the Governors of
Bombay and Madras to send
their weekly reports to him
instead of to the Secretary
of State for India in London
- Tried to administer every
department and local
government from his office
- Foreign Policy
- He was afraid of Russian
expansion into this wild and
uncharted area
- created a buffer zone along
the Afghan Frontier that was
patrolled by local militias
under British command and
funded by British subsidides
and in 1901 transferred
responsibility for this zone to
the new North West Frontier
- Directed British troop commanders,
operating under the support of the
Maharajah of Jammu, to push the
frontier up to that of the Chinese
Sinkiang, thus almost doubling the
size of Kashmir
- Claimed that the Dalai Lama was seeking Russian aid and
convinced Whitehall of the necessity of taking over Tibet. This
final 'tidying up' of India's land frontier in 1904 added Tibet to
Britain's sphere of influence
- created a buffer zone along
the Afghan Frontier that was
patrolled by local militias
under British command and
funded by British subsidides
and in 1901 transferred
responsibility for this zone to
the new North West Frontier
- He was afraid of Russian
expansion into this wild and
uncharted area
- British cabinet began to feel a sense of alarm at Curzon's actions and reactions to threats, real and imagined.
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