Governor general of India

Governor-general & viceroy of India list

Years of rule

Important events in their rule

• Enactment of Regulating Act 1773
• Ended the dual system of administration in 1772 set up by Robert Clive
• Enactment Pitt’s India Act 1784
• The Rohilla War between Rohillas and Nawab of Awadh in 1774
• First Anglo-Maratha War in 1775-82 and the Treaty of Salbai in 1782
• 2^nd Mysore War in 1780-84

• Third Anglo-Mysore War (1790-92) and Treaty of Seringapatam (1792)
• Enactment of Cornwallis Code in 1793
• Permanent Settlement of Bengal, 1793

• Introduction of the Subsidiary Alliance System in 1798, first alliance with Nizam of Hyderabad.
• Fourth (4^th) Anglo-Mysore War (1799)
• The second (2^nd) Anglo-Maratha War (1803-05) and the treaty of Bassien. between Baji Rao II and English in 1802
• Formation of Madras presidency in 1801

• Ended the policy of non-intervention
• Gurkha war or Anglo-Nepal War (1814-16) and the Treaty of Sagauli, 1816
• Third (3^rd) Maratha War (1817-19) and dissolution of Maratha Confederacy
• Establishment of Ryotwari System in 1820
• Creation of Bombay Presidency in 1818

• Governor-General of Bengal from 1828 to 1833
• Abolition of Sati System in 1829
• Suspension of Thugi
• Enactment Charter Act of 1833

• First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-46) and the Treaty of Lahore in 1846
• Social reforms like abolition of female infanticide

• The second (2^nd) Anglo-Sikh War (1848-49)
• The annexation of Lower Burma in 1852
• Introduction of the Doctrine of Lapse
• Enactment Wood’s Despatch in 1854
• The first railway line connecting Bombay with Thane in 1853
• Establishment of Public work department (PWD)

• First Viceroy of India
• Revolt of 1857
• Establishment of 3 universities at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay in 1857
• He was appointed as the secretary of India
• The East India Company was abolished and control was transferred to the British Crown by the enactment of the Government of India Act, 1858
• Indian Councils Act of 1861

• Bhutan War in 1865
• High Courts were established at Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras in 1865

• Enactment of the Vernacular Press Act (1878)
• Enactment the Arms Act (1878)
• The Second (2^nd) Afghan War (1878-80)
• ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ or Queen Empress of India title to Queen Victoria

• Repeal of the Vernacular Press Act (1882)
• The first Factory Act (1881)
• Government resolution on local self-government (1882)
• The Ilbert Bill controversy (1883-84)
• Hunter Commission on education (1882)

• The Third Burmese War (1885-86).
• Establishment of the Indian National Congress (1885)

• Factory Act (1891).
• Indian Councils Act (1892).
• Setting up of Durand Commission (1893)

• Appointment of Police Commission (1902)
• Appointment of Universities Commission (1902)
• Indian Universities Act (1904).
• Partition of Bengal (1905)

• Swadeshi Movements. (1905-11)
• Surat Split of Congress (1907)
• Establishment of Muslim League (1906)
• Morley-Minto Reforms (1909)

• Annulment of Partition of Bengal (1911)
• Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi (1911).
• Establishment of the Hindu Mahasabha (1915)

• Lucknow pact (1916)
• Champaran Satyagraha (1917)
• Montagu’s August Declaration (1917)
• Government of India Act (1919)
• The Rowlatt Act (1919)
• Jallianwalla Bagh massacre (1919)
• Launch of Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movements

• Chauri Chaura incident (1922)
• Withdrawal of Non-Cooperation Movement (1922)
• Establishment of Swaraj Party (1922)
• Kakori train robbery (1925)

• Simon Commission to India (1927)
• Harcourt Butler Indian States Commission (1927)
• Nehru Report (1928)
• Deepavali Declaration (1929)
• Purna Swaraj Resolution at Lahore session of the Congress in 1929
• Dandi March and the Civil Disobedience Movement (1930)
• First Round Table Conference (1930)
• Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931)

• Communal Award (1932)
• Second & Third Round Table Conference (1932)
• Poona Pact (1932)
• Government of India Act of 1935

• Resignation of the Congress ministries after the outbreak of the Second World War (1939)
• Tripuri Crisis & formation of Forward Bloc (1939)
• The demand for a separate state for Muslims by the “Lahore Resolution” of the Muslim League in 1940
• ‘August Offer’ (1940)
• Formation of the Indian National Army (1941)
• Cripps Mission (1942)
• “Divide and Quit” slogan at Karachi session of Muslim League in 1944
• Quit India Movement (1942)

• C. Rajagopalachari’s CR Formula (1944)
• Wavell Plan and the Shimla Conference (1942)
• Cabinet Mission (1946)
• Direct Action Day (1946)
• Announcement for end of the British rule in India

• June Third Plan (1947)
• Redcliff commission (1947)
• India’s Independence (15 August 1947)