Capital shift to Delhi MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

Lord Hardinge was the Viceroy when the transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi was announced at the Delhi Durbar of 1911. The administrative shift was part of the British attempt to place the imperial capital in a more central and symbolically important location. Lord Ripon belonged to the earlier liberal phase of the 1880s. Lord Dalhousie served before the 1857 revolt and is associated with annexations and railways. Lord Dufferin was Viceroy in the late nineteenth century, well before the 1911 capital shift.