Governor-General of India & Viceroys

Governor-General of India & Viceroy's

• The East India Company controlled Bengal through a Governor
• Robert Clive was the first Governor of Bengal
• After the Regulating Act of 1773, Madras and Bombay had their own Governors
• Warren Hastings was the first Governor-General
• The Governor-General of India (1833-1858) was established by the Charter Act of 1833
• William Bentick was the first Governor-General of India

Significant Events Related to Governor-General & Viceroy

• Warren Hastings (1773-1785): Regulating Act of 1773, Pitt's Act of 1784, First Anglo-Maratha War and Treaty of Salbai (1782), Second Mysore War (1780-1784), Asiatic Society of Bengal (1784), William Jones.
• Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793): Second Mysore War and Treaty of Seringapatam (1792), Permanent Settlement of Bengal (1793), Cornwallis code (1793), Father of civil services
• Lord Wellesley (1798-1805): Second Maratha War (1803-1805), Fourth Mysore War (1799), Treaty of Bassein (1802), Third Anglo Maratha War (1817-1819), Treaty of Sagauli (1816)
• Lord Minto I (1807-1813): Treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit Singh (1809)
• Lord Hastings (1813-1823): Establishing Ryotwari System (1820) etc...
• Lord Bentick (1828-1835): Abolition of Sati System (1829), Charter Act of 1833, Provincial/circuit court abolished
• Lord Metcalfe (1835-1836): Liberation of Indian Press
• Lord Auckland (1836-1842): First Afghan War (1838-42), Ranjit Singh died
• Lord Hardings I (1844-1848): First Anglo Sikh War and Treaty of Lahore etc...
• Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856): Second Anglo Sikh War, first train service (1853), Doctrine of lapse (1848) etc...
• Lord Canning (1856-1862): Revolt of 1857, Establishment of Universities (Calcutta, Madras, Bombay), Government of India Act 1861.
• Lord Lawrence (1864-1869): Establishment of High Courts (Calcutta, Bombay, Madras)
• Lord Mayo (1869-1872): Statistical Survey of India, first incomplete census
• Lord Lytton (1876-1880): Vernacular Press Act (1878), Arms Act (1878), Second Afghan War, Delhi Darbar
• Lord Ripon (1880-1884): Vernacular Press Act repeal (1882), Arms Act repeal, First Factory Act (1881), Hunter Commission on education, Ilbert Bill Controversy (1883).
• Lord Dufferin (1884-1888): Establishment of Indian National Congress (1885)
• Lord Curzon (1899-1905): Partition of Bengal (1905), Calcutta Corporation Act, Younghusband Mission to Tibet, Appointment of Police Commission (1902)
• Lord Minto II (1905-1910): Swadeshi Movement, Surat Split of Congress, Establishment of Muslim League etc.
• Lord Hardinge II (1910-1916): Third Delhi Darbar (1911), Transfer of Capital Calcutta to Delhi, Establishment of Hindu Mahasabha (1915) etc.
• Lord Chelmsford (1916-1921): Lucknow Pact (1916), Champaran Satyagraha (1917), Montague's August Declaration (1917), Government of India Act (1919), Rowlatt Act/Jallianwala Bagh massacre etc...
• Lord Reading (1921-1926): Launch of Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movement, Chauri Chaura incident, withdrawal of Non-Cooperation Movement, establishment of Swaraj Party, Kakori train robbery
• Lord Irwin (1926-1931): Simon Commission to India, Civil Disobedience Movement, Harcourt Butler Indian States Commission, Nehru Report (1928), Lahore Session (1929), Dandi March etc…
• Lord Willingdon (1931-1936): Communal Award, Second and Third Round Table Conferences, Poona Pact etc…
• Lord Linlithgow (1936-1944): First general elections, Forward Block etc
• Lord Wavell (1944-1947): Cabinet Mission Plan, Shimla Conference, Direct Action Day, INA Trials
• Lord Mountbatten (1947-1948): Last Governor-General of India, C. Rajagopalachari (first and last Governor-General of India), Redcliffe Commission, June-Third plan etc…

Other important information

• Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1948-1950) - Lase Governor General, He held office before the office was abolished in 1950.

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