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Correct Option: (b) Explanation:  Statement 1 is incorrect: The Haileybury College in Oxford, a rival of Fort William, to train the Company’s servants to be worthy bureaucrats. Supplementary notes: Education during British India  College of Fort William, the ‘Oxford of the East’ evolved into an institution not only for training civil servants, but also for patronizing literary and linguistic research and Orientalist scholarship in general.  The Haileybury College in Oxford, a rival of Fort William, aims to train the Company’s servants to be worthy bureaucrats.  This College was to ensure that the ‘boys’, the future servants of the Company, were indoctrinated ‘well’ by the Cambridge clergymen before they were sent off to India and placed under the in fl uence of Orientalist scholars at Fort William. The Thuggee Act XXX of 1836  The passing of The Thuggee Act XXX of 1836 and the relentless pursuit not only of thugs but of all groups of religious mendicants by Sleeman, the superintendent of thugee operations, eventually ‘purged India of this great pollution’ (Kaye 1853: 376).  Sleeman, who had ‘discovered’ the notorious thugs, wrote a long self-congratulatory account of his successful operation (Sleeman 1839 in Harlow and Carter 1999: 81–87).  The provision of the 1836 Act of legally trying ‘criminal communities’ and the knowledge compiled by the criminal department would, after the Revolt of 1857, provide the basis for the demarcation of ‘criminal castes’ and ‘criminal tribes