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Download Solution PDFFor maintaining law and order, police organisation in India was established for the first time by
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Option 4 : Cornwallis
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Cornwallis.
Key Points
- Lord Cornwallis was Governor-General from 1786 to 1793.
- He organised a regular police force to maintain peace, law and order by modernizing the old Indian system of thanas (circles) in each district, each led by a daroga (an Indian) and a superintendent of police (SP).
- The zamindars were relieved of their responsibility for police administration in the villages.
- Cornwallis was the first to bring into existence and organise the civil services.
- He is known as the 'father of civil services'.
Additional Information
| Warren Hastings (1773-1785) | Foundation of Asiatic Society of Bengal(1784) |
| Wellesley (1798-1805) | Introduction of Subsidiary Alliance (1798) |
| Dalhousie (1848-1856) | Introduction of Railways, Telegraph and Postal system |
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