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What was the primary administrative objective cited for the transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi by Lord Hardinge in 1911?
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- 1The administrative convenience of managing the entire Indian subcontinent from a central location.✓
- 2The necessity to improve maritime trade routes by establishing a central port-linked capital.
- 3The need to distance the central administration from the intense revolutionary activities in Bengal.
- 4The extreme geographic distance of Calcutta from the growing industrial hubs of the Punjab.
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The administrative convenience of managing the entire Indian subcontinent from a central location.
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