वह वायसराय जिसे भारत में 'स्थानीय स्वशासन का जनक' कहा जाता है ?
Channel: BLESSING STUDY POINT
Date: 2022-09-11

वह वायसराय जिसे भारत में 'स्थानीय स्वशासन का जनक' कहा जाता है ?
जवाबःः- लॉर्ड रिपन
The Viceroy who is called the 'Father of Local Self-Government' in India?
 Answer :- Lord Ripon

The correct option is Lord Ripon. Explanation: Lord Ripon initiated many reforms to ease the plight of the local Indians during his tenure as the Viceroy. Chief among these reforms was the introduction of local self-government, the first of its kind in British India.

Born on 24 October 1827, Lord Ripon was the second son of Prime Minister F.J. Robinson and Lady Sarah Hobart. His education was done privately attending neither school nor college. He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University.

Lord Ripon entered the House of Commons in 1852 as a member of the Liberal party.

In 1863 he was made a Privy Counsellor and Secretary of State for War under Palmerston, with a seat in the cabinet. He retained this office when Lord Russell became prime minister on Palmerston’s death in 1865 and then served under Russell as Secretary of State for India between February and June 1866. 

In William Gladstone’s first administration he was Lord President of the Council (1868–1873). During this period he acted as chairman of the joint commission for drawing up the Treaty of Washington with the United States over the Alabama Claims. For this, in 1871 he was made Marquess of Ripon, in the County of York.

What is Lord Ripon famous for?

Above all Lord Ripon is known for the Resolution of 1882, which would give Indians the right to local self-government. The scheme of local self-government would develop the municipal institutions which had been under the direct control of the British Crown.

Why was Lord Ripon known as Ripon the good in India?

Lord Ripon is known to have granted the Indians first taste of freedom by introducing the Local Self Government in 1882. His scheme of local self government developed the Municipal institutions which had been growing up in the country ever since India was occupied by the British Crown.

What were the major reforms of Lord Ripon?


Reforms brought by Lord Ripon in India

The First Factory Act, 1881.

Financial Decentralization, 1882.

Repeal of Vernacular Press Act.

Local Self Government (Resolution of 1882)

Hunter Education Commission 1882-83.

Ilbert Bill, 1884.

Lord Ripon was the second son of Prime Minister F.J.Robinson, born on October 24, 1827, and died on July 9, 1909. He has taken many measures towards liberalizing the Indian administration. He was aimed at providing popular and political education to the Indians.