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‘The tragedy of Curzon lay in that, with such abundance of trained talent; he was denied the crowning qualities. He was never an administrator of the first rank.’ Comment

  • UPSC 1991
  • Indian Response to British Rule

Lord Curzon arrived in India in 1899 as the most intellectually equipped Viceroy of the era, yet his tenure ended in 1905 in resignation and political failure — the very definition of unrealised promise.

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