Which viceroy of India, serving from 1899 to 1905, ordered the controversial partition of Bengal in 1905 that triggered widespread nationalist protests and the Swadeshi boycott movement?

• A Lord Ripon
• B Lord Minto
• C Lord Curzon ✓
• D Lord Hardinge

Lord Curzon partitioned Bengal in 1905 on administrative grounds, but it was widely seen as a divide-and-rule tactic; the ensuing Swadeshi movement called for boycotting British goods.