GOVERNOR -GENERAL & VICEROY OF INDIA

                 IMPORTANT POINTS RELATED TO THE  

            GOVERNOR GENERALS AND VICEROY

FIRST GOVERNOR OF BENGAL: ROBERT CLIVE

FIRST GOVERNOR GENERAL OF BENGAL: WARREN HASTING

FIRST GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA: WILLIAM BENTICK

FIRST  VICEROY AND LAST GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA: LORD CANNING

LAST VICEROY OF  BRITISH INDIA: LORD MOUNTBATTEN

FIRST VICEROY OF INDEPENDENT INDIA: LORD MOUNTBATTEN

FIRST INDIAN VICEROY & LAST VICEROY OF INDEPENDENT INDIA: RAJGOPALACHRI

SOME IMPORTANT POINTS :

LORD CURZON
1899-1905 : PARTATION OF BENGAL

LORD MINTO :
 INDIA COUNCIL ACT OF 1919 0R THE MORLEY MINTO REFORM

LORD CHEMSFORD :
ROWLATT ACT OF 1919 , JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE 13 APRIL 1919

LORD CORNILLIS : WAS THE FATHER OF POLICE IN BRITISH PERIOD.

LORD READING: ONLY JEWISH VICEROY OF INDIA

LORD MAYO : ONLY VICEROY TO BE ASSASSINATED IN INDIA.

IMPORTANT GOVERNOR GENERALS:

1)WARREN HASTING:  

• BROUGHT DUAL GOVT. OF BENGAL TO END BY THE REGULATING ACT 1773
• FOUNDED ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL ( 1784)
• INTRODUCED FIRST ENGISH TRANSLATION OF THE GITA WRITTEN BT CHARLES WIKINS
• WARS: THE FIRST ANGLO MARATHA WAR (1776 - 1782)

  2 ) LORD  CORNWALLIS:

•  DID THE PERMANENT SETTLEMENT OF BENGAL( CALLED ZIMIDARY  SYSTEM)
• FATHER OF CIVIL SERVICES
• FATHER OF POLICE IN BRITISH INDIA

 3) SIR JOHN SHORE   

4)LORD  WILLESLEY :

• ADOPTED POLICY OF SUBSIDARY ALLIANCE SYSTEM
• HE DEFEATED THE MYSORE UNDER TIPU SULTAN IN FOURTH ANGLO MYSORE WAR 1799

5) GEORGE BARLOW :

6)LORD MINTO - I : (1807- 1813)

• TREATY OF  AMRITSAR WITH MAHARAJA  RANJIT SINGH(1809
• CHARTER ACT OF 1813 WAS PASSED

7)LORD HASTINGS : (1813-1823)

ANGLO- NEPAL WAR(1814-16) WAS FOUGHT DURING HIS REIGN WHICH ENDED WITH THE TREATY OF SAGAULI 1816

8)LORD WILLIAM BENTICK (1828-1835)

• PROHIBITED THE SATI 1829
• ELIMINATION OF THUGS 1830
• MADE ENGLISH HAS A MEDIA OF HIGHER EDUCATION
• SUPPRESSED FEMALE INFANTICIDE & CHILD  SACRIFICE.

9)SIR CHARLES METCALFE (1835-1836)

• ABOLISHED RESTRICTION ON VENACULAR PRESS CALLED LIBERATOR OF THE PRESS

10)   LORD AUCKLAND 1836-1842 

• FIRST AFGHAN WAR  ( IN HIS  REIGN)

11) LORD DALHOUSE: (1848 -1856)
OPEN FIRST RAILWAY IN 1853 FROM BOMBAY TO THANE)
FIRST TELEPHONE LINE 1853 CALCUTTA TO AGRA.
INTRODUCED POSTAL SYSTEM
WORK ON GRAND TRUNK ROAD
MADE SHIMALA THE SUMMER CAPITAL
STARTED ENGINEERING COLLEGE IN ROORKE.
1854- WOODS DISPATCH ( PROPERLY ARTICULATED SYSTEM OF EDUCATION PRIMARY TO UNIVERSITY