Multiple choice general knowledge culture

Who choose Kolkata as the capital of India?

  1. Lord Korn Waliis

  2. Lord Curjon

  3. Lord Mount Batten

  4. Job Charnok
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Explanation

Job Charnock, an East India Company administrator, founded Kolkata in 1690 by merging three villages: Sutanuti, Gobindapur, and Kalikata. While Kolkata served as British India's capital until 1911, the question's language is simplified. The other options use misspelled names of British viceroys.

AI explanation

Job Charnock, an agent of the British East India Company, is traditionally credited with founding the settlement in 1690 by leasing the villages that became Calcutta (Kolkata), which later served as the capital of British India until 1911. The other names listed were governors-general/viceroys associated with later events (Wellesley's reforms, Curzon's partition of Bengal, Mountbatten's independence transfer), not the founding of the city.

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