Who among the following founded the Imperial Library, which he wanted to see as a future Bodleian Library or a British Museum of the East?
ALord Curzon ✓ Correct
BLord Canning
CCharles Wood
DLord Mountbatten
Correct answer: (A) Lord Curzon
Explanation
Lord Curzon founded the Imperial Library and hoped it would grow into an eastern Bodleian or British Museum.
Lord Canning, an earlier Viceroy, was not the founder of this library.
Charles Wood is remembered for the education despatch of 1854, not for this library.
Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy and had no part in founding it.
The Imperial Library later became the National Library of India at Kolkata.
Curzon also gave the Archaeological Survey its modern shape during his tenure.
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