In 1904, who was the moving force behind the enactment of the Indian Universities Act, which intended to introduce radical changes into some of the existing universities in colonial India?

Lord Curzon was the moving force behind the Indian Universities Act of 1904, which reshaped colonial universities.

Lord Canning was Viceroy in 1857 when the first three universities were founded, not in 1904.

Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy at Independence and had no role in the 1904 Act.

Lord Linlithgow served as Viceroy in the late 1930s and 1940s, well after 1904.

Curzon first convened the 1902 Indian Universities Commission whose report led to the Act.

The Act tightened government control over universities and their senates.