During British rule, who among the following said, 'our system of higher education in India is a failure; that it has sacrificed the formation of character upon the altar of cram'?

Lord Curzon voiced the sharp criticism that higher education in India had sacrificed character-building to rote learning.

Annie Besant championed Indian education and founded the Central Hindu College but is not the source of this remark.

Dalhousie is linked to the Wood's Dispatch era rather than this observation.

Macaulay is remembered for the 1835 Minute favouring English education, a different statement.

Curzon's concern led to the Indian Universities Commission and the Act of 1904.

His reforms sought tighter standards and government oversight of universities.