Governors-General and Viceroys Flashcards

Governors-General and Viceroys of British India and the events of their tenure.

First Governor-General of Bengal

Warren Hastings (under the Regulating Act, 1773).

Lord Cornwallis

Permanent Settlement of Bengal, 1793.

Lord Wellesley

Subsidiary Alliance system (1798).

First Governor-General of India

Lord William Bentinck (Charter Act, 1833).
Abolished Sati in 1829.

Lord Dalhousie

Doctrine of Lapse; first railway line (1853) and telegraph in India.

Last Governor-General and first Viceroy

Lord Canning (1858, after the Government of India Act).

Lord Lytton

Vernacular Press Act, 1878; Delhi Durbar, 1877.

Lord Ripon

Resolution on Local Self-Government (1882) – 'Father of Local Self-Government'; Ilbert Bill.

Lord Curzon

Partition of Bengal, 1905.

Lord Hardinge II

Capital shifted from Calcutta to Delhi (announced 1911); partition of Bengal annulled.

Lord Chelmsford

Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh massacre (1919).

Lord Irwin

Simon Commission (1928) and Gandhi–Irwin Pact (1931).

Last Viceroy of India

Lord Mountbatten – announced the 3 June Plan, 1947.

Only Indian Governor-General

C. Rajagopalachari (1948–1950).