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List of Governor General and Viceroy of British India:
Governor General / Viceroy | Warren Hastings |
Period | 1774 - 1785 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) First Governor General of India, |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Cornwallis |
Period | 1786 - 1793 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) Introduced Permanent Settlement of Bengal (or Zamindary System).
It was an agreement between the East India Company and Bengali landlords to fix revenues to be raised from land. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Wellesley |
Period | 1798 - 1805 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events He introduced the policy of Subsidiary Alliance to keep the Indian rulers under control by keeping British forces in their territory. Hyderabad was the first state to accept Subsidiary Alliance. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Minto I |
Period | 1807 - 1813 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events Concluded the treaty of Amritsar with Maharaja Ranjit Singh. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord William Bentinck |
Period | 1828 - 1835 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) He was made the first Governor General of India (earlier the designation was Governor General of Bengal). |
Governor General / Viceroy | Sir Charles Metcaffe |
Period | 1835 - 1836 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events He abolished all restrictions on vernacular press (He was also called Liberator of the press). |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Auckland |
Period | 1836 - 1842 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events First Afghan war. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Dalhousie |
Period | 1848 - 1856 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) He opened the first Indian Railway from Bombay to Thane in 1853. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Canning |
Period | 1856 - 1862 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) He was the Governor General during the mutiny of 1857
(India's First War of Independence). After war he was made first Viceroy of India. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Lawrence |
Period | 1864 - 1869 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) After second Sikh war, he became member of the Punjab Board of Administration and was responsible
for numerous reforms which earned him the sobriquet "the Saviour of the Punjab". |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Mayo |
Period | 1869 - 1872 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) Census was held in 1871. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Lytton |
Period | 1876 - 1880 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events In 1877, he organised the Delhi Durbar in which Queen Victoria was proclaimed with the title of 'Kaiser-i-Hind'. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Rippon |
Period | 1880 - 1884 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) He repealed the Vernacular Press Act in 1882. He was also known as Father of Local Self Government in India. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Dufferin |
Period | 1884 - 1894 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events Indian National Congress was formed. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Lansdowne |
Period | 1888 - 1894 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) Indian Council Act was passed in 1892. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Curzon |
Period | 1899 - 1905 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) Partition of Bengal in 1905. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Minto |
Period | 1905 - 1910 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events Indian Council Act, 1909 or the Morley-Minto Reforms was passed. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Hardinge |
Period | 1910 - 1916 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1)King George V of England attended Delhi Durbar in 1911. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Chelmsford |
Period | 1916 - 1921 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) The Government of India Act, 1919 (Montague - Chelmsford reforms) was passed. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Reading |
Period | 1921 - 1926 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) Rowlatt Act was repealed. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Irwin |
Period | 1926 - 1931 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) Simon Commission visited India in 1928. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Willingdon |
Period | 1931 - 1936 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) Second and Third Round Table Conference in 1931. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Linlithgow |
Period | 1936 - 1944 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) Government of India Act, 1935 enforced in the provinces. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Wavell |
Period | 1944 - 1947 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) Cabinet Mission Plan. |
Governor General / Viceroy | Lord Mountbatten |
Period | Mar 1947 - Aug 1947 |
Important Achievements/Contributions/Events (1) Last Viceroy of British India and first Governor General of free India. |
Objective Questions on Governor Generals and Viceroys of British India frequently asked in SSC, CDS, NDA, PSC, Railways and other competitive examinations-
Answers - 1(d), 2(a), 3(d), 4(c), 5(a), 6(b), 7(c), 8(b), 9(a), 10(a), 11(d), 12(a), 13(c), 14(d), 15(a), 16(c), 17(b), 18(a), 19(d) and 20(c).