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Lord William Cavendish Bentinck , 1774-1839, British administrator in India. He served in the Napoleonic Wars and was (1803-7) governor of Madras. He was appointed governor-general of Bengal in 1827, assuming the title governor-general of India in 1833. Bentinck was strongly influenced by British utilitarianism and introduced many reforms in the interest of the people. He admitted Indians to important office, fostered communication and education, and revised the system of landholding. He also abolished suttee and began suppression of the Thugs .

Bibliography: See biography by J. Rosselli (1974).

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Bentinck, Lord William Cavendish (1774–1839) British statesman. After serving in Flanders and Italy, he was posted to India as governor of Madras (1803–07). He was recalled to Britain after a mutiny at Velore for which, by his prohibition of sepoy beards and turbans, he was held responsible. After serving in the PENINSULAR WAR he returned to India as governor-general of Bengal (1827–33) and effectively was the first governor-general of all India (1833–35). His administration substituted English for Persian and Sanskrit in the courts, brought about educational reforms, suppressed the practice of ritual strangling (see THUG), and abolished suttee, in which a widow was burned on her dead husband's pyre.

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