Lord Hardinge II (1910-16)
2. Annulment of the partition of Bengal in 1911.
3. A separate state of Bihar and Orissa was created in 1911.
4. A bomb was thrown as he was entering Delhi at Chandini Chowk.
5. Capital shifted to Delhi in 1912 from Calcutta.
6. 1912, The Royal Commission under Islington was appointed to look into the Civil Services reforms. It accepted the demand for simultaneous exams in India and England for ICS. It also suggested 33% reservation for Indians in the ICS. The recommendations of this commission were implemented though the Govt of India Act of 1919. (In order to appease the Indians during the First World War, Lord Montague, the Secretary of State for India, declared the intention to throw open the ICS fully to Indians.)
7. Kamagata Maru incident.
8. Hiindu Mahasabha established by Madan Mohan Malviya in 1915
9. Saddler committee on universities appointed in 1916.
10. BHU was founded.
11. Practice of human sacrifice by Khonds abolished.
12. Tilak founded Home Rule League (1916).
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