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 Lord Ripon Index

Lord Ripon (1827-1909) Governor

General and Viceroy of India (1880-
1884). Rippon tried to heal the
wounds of India and adopted
several positive and constructive
measures in order to do some good
to the Indians. India was in a state
of revolution-political, social and
religious, when Lord Rippon came
to India.

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 Lord Ripon- Policies Index

Repeated the Vernacular Press Act

Passed The local self government Act
Took steps to improve primary and secondary education
The I Factory act, 1881, aimed at prohibiting the child
labour
Passed the Iilbert bill (1883) which enan=bled Indian
district magistrates to try European criminals.But this was
withdrawn Later

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 Vernacular Press Act Index

Act III of 1882 repealed the horrible Vernacular Press Act of 1878.
Through this act the newspaper was given the equal freedom with the
rest of the Indian Press. his wise action of Rippon tried to undo the
wrong done by Lytton and went a long way in conciliating the public
opinion.

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 The Vernacular Press Act Index

The Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878 under the

Governor Generalship and Viceroyalty of Lord Lytton, for ‘better control”
of Indian language newspapers. The purpose of the Act was to control
the printing and circulation of seditious material, calculated to produce
disaffection against the British Government in India in the minds of the
ignorant, uneducated and largely illiterate masses.

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 Policy of Free Trade Index

Lord Lytton faced with a famine in south which he

overcame by drastic administrative changes, and
anticipated future trouble systems of railway and
irrigation.

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 OTHER POLICIES Index

During his reign, the Parliament passed the Royal Titles

Act conferring upon Queen Victoria the title of 'Empress of
India';
He was the founder of the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental
College, Aligarh was laid in 1877
 Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880)
wered the age of candidates giving the I.C.S. examination
to 19 years
 Famine Committee under Gen. Richard Stratchey was
appointed (1878).
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