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BPSC – Combined Competitive Examination · Question 74

Name the Principal of M.A.O. College, Aligarh, who encouraged Muslim communalism in the last decades of the 19th century.

  1. Dunlop Smith
  2. Minto
  3. William Morris
  4. Theodore Beck
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Answer: (D) Theodore Beck

Explanation

Theodore Beck, Principal of MAO College (1883–99), encouraged Muslim separatism and opposed the Congress.

  • (A) Incorrect

    Wrong: he was Minto's private secretary, not MAO principal.

  • (B) Incorrect

    Wrong: Minto was Viceroy (1905–10).

  • (C) Incorrect

    Wrong: not associated with MAO College.

  • (D) Correct

    Correct: Beck, principal from 1883, pushed separatist, anti-Congress politics.