The Ilbert Bill disputes occurred in the time of which of the following British Viceroy in India?

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Lord Ripon. Ilbert Bill was named after Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, who was appointed as legal adviser to the Council of India. The bill was introduced in 1883 by the then Viceroy Lord Ripon, who actually desired to abolish the racial prejudice from the Indian Penal Code. Ripon had proposed an amendment for existing laws in the country and to allow Indian judges and magistrates to the jurisdiction to trial British offenders in criminal cases at the District level. It was never allowed before. So naturally, the Europeans living in India looked it as a humiliation and the introduction of the bill led to intense opposition in Britain as well as India (by the British residents). So it was withdrawn but was reintroduced and enacted in 1884 in a severely compromised state.

The Ilbert Bill disputes occurred in the time of which of the following British Viceroy in India?

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