bentinck in A Sentence

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    However, Bentinck's proposals were rejected by London officials.

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    Lord William Bentinck.

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    Bentinck's biographer John Rosselli says that the story arose from Bentinck's fund-raising sale of discarded marble from Agra Fort.

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    In 1835, faced with urgent petitions by editors of English and vernacular newspapers, Governor-General Bentinck agreed to revise press laws.

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    It was Raja Rammohan Roy who urged and pressed Bentinck to take necessary steps and declare the practice of Sati illegal.

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    No evidence exists for claims that Lord William Bentinck, governor-general of India in the 1830s, supposedly planned to demolish the Taj Mahal and auction off the marble.

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    In 1833, Lord William Bentinck implemented a new system called the"Mahalwari" or village system under which landlords as well as ryots entered into a contract with the Government.

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    Although this practice resulted in many Governor-General nominees being chosen from Britain's conservative landed gentry, there were some liberals as well, such as Lord William Bentinck and Lord Dalhousie.

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    Bentinck favoured the replacement of Persian by English as the official language, the use of English as the medium of instruction, and the training of English-speaking Indians as teachers.

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    The very next year Lord Bentinck, at the instance of the court of directors, sent a committee to China, which brought back with it Chinese tea plants, seeds and labour.

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    After the British Governor General in India, William Bentinck, decided against the traditional Indian school system in 1835, a new school system was instituted in the Madras Presidency in 1854.

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    The other great innovation of Bentinck's administration, and one with enormous implications for modern India, was the decision in 1835 that the government would give support only to institutions of higher education that used English as the medium of instruction.

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    There is a letter extant from Lord M. W. Bentinck, then governor general of India, written a day before his departure from India, praising Begum Sumru for her" benevolence of disposition and the extensive charity which have endeared you to thousands.

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    The Governor of Madras, William Bentinck, too was recalled, the Company's Court of Directors regretting that"greater care and caution had not been exercised in examining into the real sentiments and dispositions of the sepoys before measures of severity were adopted to enforce the order respecting the use of the new turban.

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