Lord Curzon used the report of Indian Universities Commission of 1902 to:

The Indian Universities Commission of 1902, under Sir Thomas Raleigh, led to the Indian Universities Act of 1904, which brought universities and their affiliated colleges under much closer government control. This was part of Lord Curzon's wider policy of centralising control over education, for which he also created the post of Director-General of Education in the Government of India. Curzon did not decentralise education or give Indians a larger voice in policy, and he enacted the 1904 Act rather than withdrawing it.