Multiple choice

Sir William Herschel used fingerprints by recording them on contracts with natives in India

  1. True

  2. False
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Explanation

In the late 1850s, British administrator Sir William Herschel began requiring handprints and fingerprints on contracts in Bengal, India, to ensure high-binding agreements and prevent fraud. This practice was one of the earliest modern systematic uses of fingerprinting for identification purposes.

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