Lord William Cavendish Bentinck Portrait Print Sale Purchase

Lord William Cavendish Bentinck NPG 848

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Atkinson

William Cavendish Bentinck is noted for the social reforms he implemented during his term as Governor-General of India (1827-35). In an unprecedented move, he encouraged Indians to assume greater responsibility in their government, allowing them access to administrative positions and ignoring caste barriers when making appointments. In 1829 he challenged Indian custom by outlawing infanticide and the suicide of widows on their husbands’ funeral pyres. He also suppressed the ‘Thuggee’ cult, whose members murdered travellers as a sacrifice to the goddess Kali. While most of… more

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Extra small 102mm x 153mm £6.00

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