* List of Governor-General and Viceroys of British India *
* 1.Warran Hastings (1774 - 1785) *
(1) Governor of the first Bengal Governor,
(2) The Regulating Act of 1773 was introduced during his tenure. This ended the two-way government in Bengal.
(3) was dismissed due to bad governance and personal corruption of the administration. But finally it was decided to be innocent.
(4) The revenue board and the structure of the business board.
(5) Creation of Deputy Commissioner.
* 2.Lord Korn Wallis (1786 - 1793) *
(1) The implementation of permanent Zamindari system in Bengal (1793)
(2) Establishment of police stations. Police reforms were implemented.
(3) Participate in British Third Anglo-Mysore War to defeat Mysore king Tipu Sultan.
* 3.Lord Wellesley (1798 - 1805) *
(1) introduced the Policy of Subsidiary Alliance to control Indian kings.
(2) The first province of Hyderabad was the province of Hyderabad.
* 4.Lord Minto I (1807 - 1813) *
(1) Amritsar's agreement with Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
* Marquest of Hasting (1813-1823) *
(1) the first to appoint Indians to higher positions.
(2) Tenancy Act (1828)
* 6.Lord William Bentinck (1828 - 1835) *
(1) appointed the first governor general of India. (Formerly the governor general of Bengal).
(2) Prohibition of Sati.
(3) The appointment of the Indians as subordinate judges,
(4) became the language of higher education in English.
(5) Thieves were suppressed in Central India.
(6) Medical college started in Calcutta in 1835.
* 7.Sar Charles Metacaf (1835 - 1836) *
(1) Independence for domestic newspapers for the first time. Cancel all restrictions. (India Circular Protector)
* 8.Lord Auckland (1836 - 1842) *
(1) First Afghan War.
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* 9.Lord Dalhousie (1848 - 1856) *
(1) The first Indian Railway Line to be constructed from Bombay to Thane. (1853)
(2) Construction of telegraph wire from Kolkata to Agra. (1853)
(3) 'adoptive children have no right' system implemented. Thus the states of Satara (1848), Jaipur and Sambalpur (1849), Udaypur (1852), Jhansi (1853) and Nagpur (1854) were conquered.
(4) made Shimla summer capital.
(5) Public Works Department
(6) The remedies of widows were legalized with the implementation of the Widow Reversion Act (1856).
(7) Competitive Examination of Indian Civil Services Initiative (1853)
* 10.Lard Canning (1856 - 1862) *
(1) The Governor General during the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 (India's First War of Independence). After the uprising, India became the first Viceroy.
(2) 'adoptive children have no right' system.
(3) The Indian Council Act was enacted in 1861.
(4) The beginning of the Calcutta, Bombay and Madras Universities, according to the 1854 'Woods Dishes Patch'.
(5) The Great Queen of Victoria of 1858 published "Magnakarta of India".
(6) The Indian Penal Code Enforcement (1860) made by McClee in 1837
(7) Civil Procedure Code Enforcement (1861)
* 11.Lord Lawrence (1864 - 1869) *
(1) After the Second Sikh War, he became a member of the Punjab Administrative Department. And brought in several responsible reforms in Punjab and became known as "the savior of Punjab".
(2) High courts were established in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in 1865.
* 12.Lard Mayo (1869 - 1872) *
(1) First Census in India (1871)
(2) Viceroy was the only one killed in India during the visit of the Andaman Islands in 1872 (by prisoner Sher Ali).
(3) Establishment of Agriculture Department.
* 13.Lord Litton (1876-1880) *
(1) organized by the Delhi Darbar in 1877 and Queen Victoria is the title of 'Kaiser-i-Hind'.
(2) enforced by the 'Domestic Press Act' (1878)
(3) Arms Act - (1878).
(4) Established Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College in Aligarh by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. (1877)
(5) Civil Service Examination Entrance Age was reduced from 21 to 19.
* 14.Lord Rippon (1880 - 1884) *
(1) Cancellation of the 'Domestic Press Act' which restricts the contents of India. (1882)
(2) The entrance age of Civil Service Examination was again increased from 19 to 21. (3) Approval of the First Factory Act to ban child labor (1881)
(4) 'Father of Indian Local Governments' - Urban Meetings, District and Local Councils in the country. (1882)
(5) enforced by the Ilbert Bill Act (1883)
* 15.
Lord Dufferin (1884 - 1894) *
(1) was formed by the Indian National Congress
* 16.Lord Lansdowne (1888 - 1894) *
(1) The Indian Council Act (1892)
(2) appointed Durand Commission to identify the cross border between British India and Afghanistan.
* 17.Lord Curzon (1899 - 1905) *
(1) Partition of Bengal (1905)
(2) the start of the domestic movement.
(3) Establishment of Agricultural Banks. Establishment of Agriculture Research Institute in Pusa, Bengal (1904)
(4) Enforcement of the Protection of Ancient Monuments Act, Archeology Department Structure (1901)
(5) Sir. Thomas Raleigh. Appointed by the university commission at the presidency, 'Enforcement of Indian Universities Act. (1904)
(6) Formation of Police Commission.
(7) Creation of the Criminal Investigation Department.
* 18.Lord Minto (1905 - 1910) *
(1) The Indian Board of Act-1909 or Marley-Minto reforms has been passed.
(2) Separate constituency representation for Muslims.
* 19.Lord Harding (1910 - 1916) *
(1) Coronation of V. George of England Governor - Delhi Durbar (1911)
(2) settled in Delhi from Calcutta, the capital of India
