2018 · Q67
Which of the following statements about town planning in British India in early 19th century is/are correct?
- 1The funds for town improvement were also raised through public lotteries.
- 2The threats of epidemics gave an impetus to town planning in the early decades of 19th century.
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- A1 only
- B2 only
- CBoth 1 and 2
- DNeither 1 nor 2
Explanation
Both statements are true. In early-19th-century Calcutta, town improvement was funded partly through public lotteries — the Lottery Committee of 1817 raised money this way — and recurrent epidemics, notably cholera, pushed the colonial administration toward town planning and sanitation. Hence both 1 and 2 are correct.