Tuesday, March 07, 2017

List of Viceroys and Governor-Generals

Warren Hastings (1773 -1785)

¤Regulating Act of 1773

¤Supreme Council of Bengal

¤Asiatic Society of Bengal

¤ Stopped Mughal pension to Shah
Alam II

¤Stopped Diarchy in Bengal

¤New Sanskrit School by Jonathan Deccan

¤Moved Treasury from Murshidabad to Calcutta

¤Bengal Gazette- First Indian newspaper published

¤First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–82)

¤Second Anglo-Mysore war (1780–84)
¤First Rohilla War of 1773–1774
Second Rohilla War 1779

¤ Experimentation on land settlements. (1772-five years settlement, changed to 1 year in 1776)

¤English Translation of Bhagwat Gita

Sir John Macpherson( 1785- 1786)
(acting)
No special contribution

The Earl Cornwallis (1786-1793)

Established lower courts and appellate courts

II) Permanent Settlement in Bihar and Bengal in 1793

(III) 3rd Mysore war

(IV) Introduction of Cornwallis Code

(V) Introduction of Civil Services in India

Sir John Shore (1993-98)

Policy of Non-intervention

Charter Act of 1793

Battle of Kharda between Nizam and Marathas (1795)

The Earl of Mornington (1798-1805)

Introduction of Subsidiary Alliance

Fourth Anglo Mysore War 1799

Second Anglo-Maratha War ( 1803–05 )

Fort William College at Calcutta

Formation of Madras Presidency in 1801

Sir George Barlow, Bt (1805-1807)

* Sepoy mutiny at Vellore took place during his tenure

The Lord Minto

Charter Act of 1813

The Earl of Moira (1813-1823)

Ended the policy of Non-intervention

Third Anglo-Maratha War (1816-1818)

1816,Treaty of Sagauli

Creation of Bombay Presidency in 1818

Establishment of Ryotwari System in Madras

The Lord Amherst (1823-1828)

First Anglo-Burmese War ( 1824–26 )

Treaty of Yandabo, 1826

Lord William Bentinck (1828-1835)
First Governor General of India

Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829

Charter Act, 1833

Saint Helena Act 1833

English Education Act 1835

Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata

Sir Henry Hardinge (1844-1848)

The First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–46)

The Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–49)

Treaty of Lahore

The Earl of Dalhousie (1848-1856)

Doctrine of Lapse
Charles Wood Dispatch

Second Anglo-Burmese War ( 1852 )

1st Railway line connecting Bombay and Thane

Post Office Act, 1854

Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856

Established Public Works Department
Engineering College was established at Roorkee

The Viscount Canning (1856-1862)

University of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras were set up in 1857

The revolt of 1857

The Government of India Act, 1858

Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856

The Marquess of Ripon(1880-1884)

First Factory Act(1881)

Repeal of the Vernacular Press Act (1882)

Ilbert Bill

The Earl of Dufferin (1884-1888)

Formation of Indian National Congress

Third Anglo-Burmese War

The Lord Curzon of Kedleston (1899-1905)

Partition of Bengal (1905)

2nd Delhi Darbar (1903)

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