GOVERNOR GENERALS AND THEIR ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES

GOVERNOR GENERAL CIVIL SERVICES JUDICIARY EDUCATION MISCELLANEOUS

✓ Created the post of

District Collector
o Revenue ✓ Orientalist
Warren Hasting o Judicial ✓ Calcutta Madrasah
(1773-87)
✓ Pitt’s India Act of 1784
✓ Responsible for ✓ Asiatic Society of Bengal
implementing the (with William Jones)
‘Revenue Farming
System’
✓ Appointment of European
✓ Separation of powers judges
between executive ✓ Creation of a hierarchy of
and Judiciary: district courts-district, munsif etc
Lord Cornwallis collector in charge of ✓ Mal Adalats created later ✓ Sanskrit College ✓ Permanent Settlement
(1787-93) revenue abolished (Jonathan Duncan) ✓ Cornwallis code
✓ Covenanted and ✓ Introduction provincial
uncovenanted civil and circuit courts
services ✓ Abolition of Court fee
✓ Europeanization
Lord Richard Wellesley ✓ Subsidiary Alliance
(1798-1805)
✓ Fort William College ✓ Fort William college Policy
Charter Act of 1813
✓ Corpus of one lakh set
aside for the
Lord Minto I development of
(1807-13) education
✓ Encouraging oriental
arts and learning
GOVERNOR GENERAL CIVIL SERVICES JUDICIARY EDUCATION MISCELLANEOUS

✓ Introduction of Jury trial

✓ Permitting the use of ✓ Abolition of Sati
vernacular languages ✓ Thugee Prohibition Act
Lord Bentinck
(First Governor
along with English and ✓ Orientalist-Anglicist ✓ Annexation of Mysore,
General of India)
✓ Charter Act of 1833 Persian as a court Controversy – Coorg & Central Cachar
language Macaulay's Minute ✓ Treaty of ‘perpetual
(1828-35)
✓ Abolition of Circuit courts friendship’ with Ranjeet
✓ Appointment of Macaulay Singh
as Law member
Lord Metcalfe
✓ New press law
removing restrictions
(1835–36)
on the press in India
✓ Introduction of the
Doctrine of Lapse
✓ Charter Act, 1853 ✓ Bethune’s school ✓ Religious Disabilities
Lord Dalhousie ✓ Opening of Civil (J.F.D.Bethune) Act, 1850
(1848-56) Services (Indian Civil ✓ Appointment of “Wood’s ✓ Railway Minute, 1853
Services Act, 1861) Educational Despatch” ✓ Indian Postal Act, 1854
✓ Second Anglo-Sikh War
& annexation of Punjab
✓ Passed the Widow
Lord Canning ✓ Indian Councils Act of ✓ Establishment of the Remarriage Act, 1856
✓ Introduction of the Penal first set of universities–
(First Viceroy) 1861
Codes Bombay, Madras and
✓ Archaeological Survey
(1856-62) ✓ Imperial civil Services of India
Calcutta
✓ ‘White Mutiny’ in 1859
✓ Financial
Decentralization
Lord Mayo ✓ Enactment of the Sedition ✓ First experimental
(assassinated) law (to crush the Census
(1869-72) Wahabbis) ✓ Establishment of
Statistical Survey of
India
GOVERNOR GENERAL CIVIL SERVICES JUDICIARY EDUCATION MISCELLANEOUS

✓ Delhi Durbar, 1877-

Royal titles Act
✓ Queen Victoria
assuming the title of
‘Kaiser-i-Hind’
Lord Lytton ✓ Statutory Civil
(1876-1880) Services
✓ Vernacular Press Act,
1878
✓ Arms Act, 1878
✓ First Famine
commission under Lord
Strachy
✓ First ever all India
Census
Lord Rippon
✓ Education Commission ✓ First Factories Act, 1881
(1880-84)
✓ Ilbert Bill controversy under chairmanship of ✓ Local Self Govt Act, 1882
Sir William Hunter ✓ Repealing of Vernacular
Press Act and modifying
Arms Act
Lord Dufferin ✓ Appointment of the
(1884-88) Aitchison commission

✓ Calcutta Universities Act

✓ Bengal Partition
✓ Ancient Monuments
Lord Curzon ✓ Frazer Police ✓ Indian Universities Act
Perservation Act
(1898-1905) Commission (Rayeigh Commission)
✓ McDonell commission
✓ Scott-Moncrief
Commission
GOVERNOR GENERAL CIVIL SERVICES JUDICIARY EDUCATION MISCELLANEOUS

Lord Minto II
✓ Indian Councils Act
1909 (Minto Morley
(1905–10)
reforms)
✓ Creation of Bengal
Lord Hardinge II Presidency in (1911)
(1910–16) ✓ Transfer of capital from
Calcutta to Delhi (1911)
✓ Exam to be held both
in India and England
✓ Imperial Services
✓ Government of India Act
Lord Chelmsford
categorised into two: ✓ Saddler Commission
(1919) (Montagu–
• All-India Services (1917) for reforms in
(1916-21) Chelmsford Reforms)
• Central Services educational policy
✓ Rowlatt Act
✓ Establishment of
Public Service
Commission
Lord Reading
✓ Repeal of the Press Act
(1921-26)
✓ Lee Commission of 1910 and the Rowlatt
Act of 1919
✓ Trade Unions Act
✓ Trade Disputes Act
✓ Butler commission to
Lord Irwin inquire into the
(1926-31) relationship between
the Indian Princely
States and the British
Government of India
✓ ‘Deepavali Declaration’
✓ Introduction of ✓ Establishment of the
Lord Willingdon
Provincial Public Federal court
(1931-36)
✓ Service Commission