The Universities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were set up in ______.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. 1857.
The Universities of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras were all established in the year 1857 by the British under the influence of Lord Macaulay’s educational reforms and the recommendations of Wood’s Despatch of 1854. These were the first modern universities in India, modeled after the University of London, and marked the beginning of formal Western higher education in the country.