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India · 1901Victoria dies and Curzon centralises the Raj: the new NWFP and the 1901 Census

Lord Curzon's centralising administration defined the year: the North-West Frontier Province was carved from Punjab and the decennial Census of 1901 was taken under H.H. Risley. Queen Victoria died on 22 January and Edward VII succeeded her; the Moderate Congress met at Calcutta under D.E. Wacha.

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Key figures

Lord Curzon — Viceroy of India (1899–1905); created the NWFP and the Imperial Cadet Corps and appointed major commissionDinshaw Edulji Wacha — Moderate leader who presided over the 1901 Calcutta session of the Congress.M.K. Gandhi — attended the 1901 Calcutta Congress on his return from South Africa, raising the cause of South African InDadabhai Naoroji — published 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India' (1901), formalising the Drain theory.H.H. Risley — Census Commissioner for the 1901 Census, whose caste classification shaped colonial ethnography.Rabindranath Tagore — founded the Santiniketan school in 1901.

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