Governor Generals
Governor Generals
Governors-General of Fort William in Bengal
- Warran Hastings (1773-85)
- Regulating Act of 1773,
- Rohilla war (1774)
- Nanad Kumar incident (1175)
- Chait singh affair (1778)
- First maratha war (1778-82)
- Begams of oudha affair(1782)
- Pitts India Act of 1784
- Second mysore war (1780-84)
- Foundation of Asiatic society of Bengal by Warren Hastings and Sir William Jones.
- Lord Cornwallis 1786
- Third Mysore War (1790-92)
- Treaty of seringapatanam (1792)
- introduction of permanent settlement and reform of judiciary
- Lord Wellesley (1798 – 1805)
- Subsidiary system (1798)
- first treaty with Nizam (1798)
- Fourth Mysore war (1799)
- Second Maratha War (1803-1805)
- formation of Madras presidency (1801)
- Marquess Cornwallis (for the second time) 1805
- Sir George Barlow
- Lord Minto (I) (1807 -13)
- Vellore Mutiny (1806)
- Treaty off Amritsar (1809)
- Charter Act of 1813
- Lord Hastings (1813-23)
- Nepal(Gorkha) war (1814-16)
- treaty of Saguli
- Third Maratha War (1817-18)
- creation of Bombay Presidency
- Pindari war
- Ryotwari settlement in Madras
- Lord Amherst (1823-28)
- First Burmese war capture of Bharatpur (1826)
- Lord William Cavendish-Bentinck (1828-35)
- Prohibition of Sati (1829)
- Charter Act of 1833
- suppression of thuggee (1829-35)
- Maculays minutes
- abolition of provincial court of appeal and circuit
- appointment of commmissioners
- Sir Charles (Lord) Metcalfe
- freed Indian press from restrictions
- Lord Auckland 1836 (March)
- First Afghan War (1836-42)
- Lord Ellenborough
- Termination of First Afghan Wars (1842)
- annexation of Sind (1843)
- abolition of slavery
- Lord Hardinge (1844-48)
- First Sikh war (1845-1846)
- Treaty of Lahore
- prohibition of female infanticide and human sacrifice among Gonds of central India.
- Lord Dalhousie (1848-56)
- Second Sikh War (1845-1846) and annexation of Punjab,
- Second Burmese war (1852)
- Charter act of 1853
- Appication of Doctrine of Lapse
- Woods dispatch
- Introduction of Railways(Bombay to Thana)
- Telegraph(Calcutta to Agra)
- postal system
- Widow remarriage Act (1856)
- Santhal uprising (1855-56)
- Lord Canning
- Queen Victorias proclamation and India Act of 1858
- White Mutiny
- Indian Councils Act of 1861
- Indian Penal Code in 1860
- Lord Elgin (I) (1862)
- suppressed Wahabis movement
- Lord John Lawrence (1864 -69)
- Bhutan War ( 1865)
- Establishment of High Courts at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in 1865
- Lord Mayo (1869-72)
- Establishment of statistical survey of India
- Dept. of Agriculture and commerce
- state railways
- He was assassinated in Andamans in 1872.
- 1872 Sir John Strachey
- 1872 Lord Napier of Merchistoun
- 1872 Lord Northbrook
- Lord Lytton (I) (1876-80)
- Royal Titles Act of 1876
- assumption of title of empress of India by Queen Victoria
- Vernacular Press Act
- Arms Act of 1878
- Second Afghan War (1878-80)
- appointment of first famine commission in 1878.
- Lord Ripon (1880-84)
- First Factory Act and First census
- Local Self Government in 1882
- division finances of the centre in 1882
- Hunter commission on Education
- Ilbert Bill Controversy
- Lord Dufferin (1884-88)
- Burmese War (1885-86)
- Foundation of Indian National Congress
- Lord Landsdowne (1888-94)
- Factory Act of 1891
- Division of Civil services into Imperial, Provincial and Subordinate
- Indian councils Act of 1892
- Appointment of Durand Commission and its definition of Durand line
- Between India (Now Pakistan) and Afghanistan
- Lord Elgin (II)
- Assassination of British By Chapekar
- Lord Curzon (1899-1905)
- Thomas Raleigh commission
- Ancient Monuments Preservation Act of 1904
- Establishment of Agriculture research Institute at Pusa in Bihar
- Partition of Bengal in 1905
- Lord Minto (II) (1905-10)
- Anti Partition and swadeshi movements
- Surat session and Split in the congress
- Minto Morley reforms
- Foundation of Muslim League by Aga Khan
- Nawab of Dacca etc. in 1906
- Lord Hardinge II (1910-16)
- Annulment of partion of Bengal
- Transfer imperial capital to Delhi
- Death of G.K. Gokhale in 1915
- foundation of Hindu Mahasabha in 1915
- Lord Chelmford (1916 -21)
- Return of Ghandhji
- Home Rule leagues
- Luknow Session and reunion of congress in 1916
- Lucknow pact in 1916 by the efforts of B.G.Tilak
- August Declaration of Montague
- Formation of Indian Liberal Federation by S.N.Banerjee
- Jallian Walla Bagh Massacre (13 April 1919)
- Khilafat movement (1919-20)
- Appointment of Sir S.P.Sinha as Lieutenant Governor of Bihar (First Indian)
- Lord Reading (1921-26)
- Chauri Chaura incident ( 5th Feb 1922)
- Formation of Swaraj party by C.R.Das
- Motilal Nehru in Dec 1922
- Foundation of Rastriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) by K.B.Hedgewar (1925)
- Repeal of Rowlatt Act
- Holding of simultaneous examinations in India and England
- Beginning of Indianisation of officers cadre of the Indian Army.
- Lord Irwin (1926-31)
- Simon commission and its Boycott
- Harcourt Butler Indian States commission (1927)
- Nehru report and its rejection by Muslim League
- Hindu Mahasabha etc.
- Deepavali declaration
- Lahore session (1929)
- Poorna swaraj declaration
- launching of Civil Disobedience Movement and Dandi march
- First Round Table Congress
- Gandi Irwin Pact.
- Lord Willingdon (1931-36)
- Second and Third Round Table conferences
- communal award (1932) by Ramsay Mac Donald
- Poona pact between Gandhi and Ambedkar(1932)
- Govt. of India Act 1935
- Foundation of Socialist Party by Acharya Narendra Dev and Jai Prakash Narayan (1934)
- Lord Linlithgow (1936-43)
- Formation of congress ministries
- Resignation of Subash Chandra Bose from the President ship of congress
- formation of Forward Block
- August offer by Linlithgow and its rejection by congress
- Deliverance day by Muslim League (1939)
- Cripps Mission
- Quit India movement
- Lord Wavell (1943-47)
- C.R.Formula by C.Rajagopalchari
- Wavell Plan and Simla Conference
- INA Trials
- Naval Mutiny (1946)
- Cabinet Mission ( Lawrence, Cripps and Alexander)
- Formation of Interim Government and Launching of Direct Action Day.
- Lord Mountbatten (1947)
- Partition of India and Independence
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