Governor General and Viceroys of India 2014

1. Warren Hastings (1773-85) 7. Lord Hastings (1813-1823) 14. Lord Dalhousie (1848-56) e. Introduced financial 10. Lord Elgin II (1894-99) b. Repel of Arms Act and Rowlett
a. Regulating Act 1773 a. Anglo-Nepal War (1814-16) & a. 2nd Anglo Sikh War (1848-49) & decentralization. a. 2 British officials assassinated by Act
b. Pitts Act 1784 Treaty of Sagauli. Punjab annexation. f. Only Viceroy to be murdered. Chapekar Brothers. c. Criminal Law Amendment and
c. Rohilla War 1774 b. 3 Marathe War (1817-19) and of b. Annexation of lower Burma or
rd b. Santhal & Mundas uprising. Cotton excise abolished.
d. 1st Maratha war 1775-82 and Maratha Confederacy Pega (1852) 5. Lord Northbrook (1872-76) c. Lyall Commission- Famine d. Simultaneous ICS exams in Delhi
Treaty of Salbai 1782 dissolution, creation of Bombay c. 2 Anglo Brumese War
nd a. Visit of Prince of Wales 1875 d. Plague in Bombay and London from 1923
e. 2nd Mysore War 1780-84 & Presidency. d. Santhal Uprisings b. Trial of Gaewar of Baroda
Treaty of Mangalore c. Strife with Pindaris (1817-18) e. Doctrine of Lapse and c. Kuka Movement of Punjab led 11. Lord Curzon (1899-1905) 16. Lord Irwin (1926-31)
f. Abolished dual system of admin d. Treart with Sindhia (1817) annexation of Satara (1848), by Ram Singh. a. Police Commission - Sir Ander a. Simon Commission
g. Divided Bengal in districts and e. Treaty of Sangli (1816) Jaitpur & Sambhalpur (1849) Frazer b. Harcourt Butler Indian States
appointed collectors & revenue f. Treaty of Poona (1817) Udaipur (1852), Jhansi (1853) 6. Lord Lytton (1876-80) b. University Commission- Thomas Commission
officials g. Ryotwari System - Thomas Nagpur & Awadh (54 & 56) a. Vernacular Press Act (1878) Railey c. Lahore Session- Purna Swaraj
h. Diwani & Faujdari Adalat Munro (Gov. of Madras) (1820) f. Bombay & Thane Railway b. The Arms Act (1878) c. Famine Commission-Macdonell d. Dandi March
i. Asiatic Society of Bengal 1784 g. English schools and college. c. Deccan Agrarian Relief Act 1876 d. Indian University act passed e. Deepavali Declaration-Irwin
j. Wrote introduction to 1st English 8. Lord Amherst (1823-28) h. Telegraph lines from Bombay to passed. e. Paper coinage & Indian f. Sharda act,1929 girls
translation of Gita by Charles a. 1 Burmese War (1824-26) signed
st Calcutta & Madras to Pewshwar. d. 2nd Afghan War (1878-80) Currency Act & put Indian marriageable age 18 & boys 18.
Wilkins. Treaty of Gandaboo i. Ganga Canal declared open. e. Famine Commission- Richard currency on gold standard.
k. Deprived Jamindars of judicial b. Capture of Malala Peninsula & j. Widow Remarriage Act 1856 Strachey (1878) f. Dept of Commerce & Industry 17. Lord Willingdon (1931-36)
power & records mandatory. Bharatpur (1826) k. Public Works Dept in every f. Royal Titles Act (1876), Queen g. Calcutta Corporation Act a. 2nd RTC
province. Victoria assumes Kaiser I Hind. h. Ancient Monuments b. Communal Awards (1932)
2. Cornwallis 1786-93 9. William Bentick (1828-35) l. Abolished titles & pensions. g. Delhi Durbar in 1877. Preservations Act (1904) c. 3rd RTC
a. 1st to codify laws. Separated a. 1st GG of India. m. Engineering College at Roorkee i. Partition of Bengal d. Govt of India Act 1935
revenue from justice b. Abolition of Sati & others 7. Lord Ripon (1880-84) j. Curzon-Kitchener controversy e. Burma Separated from India
b. 3 Mysore War 1790-92 and c. Suppression of thugi (1830)
rd 15. Lord Canning (1856-57) a. 1st Factory Act to improve labour k. Younghusband’s Mission to
Treaty of Seringapatam 1792 d. Charter Act 1833 a. 3 Universities at Calcutta, conditions. Tibet. 18. Lord Linlithgow (1936-44)
c. Cornwallis Code (1793) e. Edu. Reforms and English as Madras and Bombay 1857 b. Vernacular Press act repealed a. 1st General election
separation of revenue admin & official language VICEROY c. Financial decentralization 12. Lord Minto II (1905-10) b. Formation of Forward Block
Civil Jurisdiction. f. Annexation of :- 1. Canning (1858-62) d. Resolution on LSG(Father) a. Newspaper act c. Lahore resolution by Muslim
d. Permanent Settlement of Bengal Mysore (1831) a. Control from Company to e. Education Commission- William b. Muslim League by Aga Khan. League
e. Introduction of Civil Services Coorg (1834) Crown Hunter (1882) c. Morley Minto reforms d. August Offer by the viceroy
Central Cachar (1834) b. White Mutiny f. Illbert Bill e. Winston Churchill PM of
3. Sir John Shore (1793-98) g. Perputual friendship with c. Indian Councils Act 1861 g. 1st official census in India 13. Lord Hardinge (1910-16) England
a. Planned permanent settlement Ranjeet Singh. d. Doctrine of Lapse withdrawn h. Famine Code adopted. a. Creation of Bengal Presidency f. Organisation of Indian National
b. Charter Act of 1793 h. Abolition of provincial courts of e. Income tax introduced i. Punjab University founded. b. Capital transferred from Army
c. Battle of Kharda between Nizam appeal and circuit of 2. f. Indigo riots in Bengal j. Rendition of Mysore Calcutta to Delhi (1911) g. Cripps Mission Plan rejected
and Marathas (1795) i. 1 Medical College of India.
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g. Bombay & Madras founded c. Hindu Mahasabha by Madan h. Ouit India Resolution passed by
8. Lord Dufferin (1884-88) Mohan Malaviya Congress
4. Lord Wellesley (1798-1805) 10. Lord Metcalfe (1835-36) 2. Lord Elgin I (1862-63) a. Bengal Tenancy Act d. Coronation Durbar of King
a. Subsidiary alliance system with a. Press Laws liberated a. Wahabi Movement suppressed. b. 3rd Burmese War (1885-86) & George V held at Delhi 19. Lord Wavell (1944-47)
Hyderabad Nizam annexation of Burma. e. Bihar and Orissa separated from a. CR Formula
b. 4 Mysore War (1799)
th 11. Lord Auckland (1836-42) c. INC established Bengal(1911) b. Wavell Plan and Shimla
3. John Lawrence (1864-69)
c. 2nd Maratha War (1803-05) a. 1st Afghan War (1838-42) Conference
a. Punjab Tenency Act.
d. Took over Tanjore (1799), Surat b. Death of Ranjit Singh (1839) b. Bhutan War (1865) 9. Lord Lansdowne (1888-94) 14. Lord Chelmsford (1916-21) c. End of 2nd World War
(1800), and Carnatic (1801) c. High Courts at Calcutta, Bombay a. Factory Act 1891 a. Home Rule League formed. d. Direct Action Day observed by
e. Treaty of Bassein (1802) 12. Ellenborough (1842-44) b. Indian Councils Act, 1892 b. Montagu’s August Declaration Muslim
and Madras.
f. Fort William College in Calcutta a. Annexation of Sindh (1843) c. Civil services categorized as c. Govt of India Act 1919 e. Clement Attlee announced end
g. Famous as Bengal Tiger b. War with Gwalior (1843) Imperial, provincial & d. Rowlatt Act 1919 of British Rule in India
4. Lord Mayo (1869-72)
a. Political Training of Indian subordinate. e. Womens University at Poona 20. Lord Mountbatten(1947-48)
5. Sir George Barlow (1805-07) 13. Hardinge I (1844-1848) d. Age of Consent act- girls f. Saddler’s Commission- a. June Third Plan
Prince established at :-
a. Vellore Mutiny (1806) a. 1 st Anglo Sikh War (1845-46) &
marriage age at 12 Educational reforms b. Indian Independence Bill
Rajkot College-Kathiawar
Treaty of Lahore (1846) e. Durand Commission- India g. SP Sinha as Governor as Bihar. introduced in House
Mayo College- Ajmer
6. Lord Minto I (1807-1813) b. Social reforms like abolition of Afghanistan Line. c. Boundary commissions under
b. Statistical Survey of India
a. Treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit female infanticide and sacrifice. 15. Lord Reading (1921-26) Sir Cyril Radcliff for partition of
c. Dept Agri. & Commerce
Singh (1809) d. State railways introduced a. Mophal rebellion in Kerala Bengal and Punjab.
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