What was the purpose with which Sir William Wedderburn and W. S. Caine had set up the Indian Parliamentary Committee in 1893?

The correct answer is A. Wedderburn and Caine, both sympathetic British MPs, founded the Indian Parliamentary Committee in 1893 to put Indian grievances before the House of Commons and to press for political reforms, such as wider representation in the legislative councils and the Indian Civil Service examination reforms that the Indian National Congress had been demanding. It was a lobbying body inside Parliament, backing the moderate phase of Congress politics of petitions, debates and persuasion.

• B is wrong. Entry into the Imperial Judiciary was a service-access issue, not the committee's central aim.
• C is wrong. Independence was not on the agenda of the moderate Congress leadership in 1893. The demands were for reform within the British framework.
• D is wrong. Getting eminent Indians into Parliament was the goal of Dadabhai Naoroji's candidature at Central Finsbury in 1892. It is related but was a separate campaign, not the committee's stated purpose.

Mains angle: this shows the early Congress method of building support in Britain, which later shaped the debate on constitutional reforms such as the Indian Councils Acts.

Trap: Aspirants see D and pick it because Naoroji's parliamentary bid is the more famous episode. Keep the 1892 election and the 1893 committee separate in your notes.