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Which among the following Viceroys was associated with the ‘Ilbert Bill Controversy’?

Lord Curzon

Lord Lytton

Lord Ripon

Lord Hardinge

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Ilbert Bill is named after Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, who was appointed as legal adviser to the Council of India.The bill was introduced in 1883 by Viceroy Ripon, who actually desired to abolish the racial prejudice from the Indian Penal Code.Ripon had proposed an amendment for existing laws in the country and to allow Indian judges and magistrates the jurisdiction to try British offenders in criminal cases at the District level.

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