UPSC Prelims 2020 Question:

Wellesley established the Fort William College at Calcutta because

Explanation:

• Fort William College is an orientalist training centre set up by Governor General Lord Richard Wellesley in 1800 within the Fort William complex. Its objective was to foster Indian languages and effect the moral and intellectual improvement of the newly recruited European civil servants and military officers.
  
  
• Wellesley felt that both academic and moral training were necessary to make the new bureaucrats to become capable at facing the challenge of governing an alien people.
  
  
• Its expenses were designed to have been met by contributions from civilians in India and an uncertain allocation that was to come from the operation of the Government Printing Press.
  
  

Therefore, option (4) is the correct answer.

Subject: History | The British Administrative reforms