Governors & Viceroys Of India

1.Warren Hastings (1773-1785)

Events During Regime :

Regulating Act of 1773
Pitt’s India Act of 1784
The Rohilla War of 1774
The First Maratha War in 1775-82 and the Treaty of Salbai in 1782
Second Mysore War in 1780-84

2. Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793)

Events During Regime:

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

3. Lord Wellesley (1798-1805)

Events During Regime:

Introduction of the Subsidiary Alliance System (1798)
Fourth Mysore War (1799)
Second Maratha War (1803-05)

4. Lord Minto I (1807-1813)

Events During Regime:

Treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit Singh (1809)

5. Lord Hastings (1813-1823)

Events During Regime:

Anglo-Nepal War (1814-16) and the Treaty of Sagauli, 1816
Third Maratha War (1817-19) and dissolution of Maratha Confederacy
Establishment of Ryotwari System (1820)

6.Lord Amherst (1823-1828)

Events During Regime:

First Burmese War (1824-1826)

7. Lord William Bentinck (1828-1835)

Events During Regime:

Abolition of Sati System (1829)
Charter Act of 1833

8.Lord Auckland (1836-1842)

Events During Regime:

First Afghan War (1838-42)

9.Lord Hardinge I (1844-1848)

Events During Regime:

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

10. Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856)

Events During Regime:

Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-49)
The annexation of Lower Burma (1852)
Introduction of the Doctrine of Lapse
Wood’s Despatch 1854
Laying down of first railway line connecting Bombay and Thane in 1853
Laying down of first railway line connecting Bombay and Thane in 1853
Establishment of PWD

11. Lord Canning (1856-1862)

Events During Regime:

Revolt of 1857
Establishment of three universities at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay in 1857
Abolition of East India Company and transfer of control to the Crown by the Government of India Act, 1858
Indian Councils Act of 1861

12.Lord John Lawrence (1864-1869)

Events During Regime:

Bhutan War (1865)
Establishment of the High Courts at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras (1865)

13. Lord Lytton (1876-1880)

Events During Regime:

The Vernacular Press Act (1878)
The Arms Act (1878)
The Second Afghan War (1878-80)
Queen Victoria assumed the title of ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ or Queen Empress of India

14.Lord Ripon (1880-1884)

Events During Regime:

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)

15. Lord Dufferin (1884-1888)

Events During Regime:

The Third Burmese War (1885-86).
Establishment of indian national congress

16. Lord Lansdowne (1888-1894)

Events During Regime:

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

17. Lord Curzon (1899-1905)

Events During Regime:

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

18. Lord Minto II (1905-1910)

Events During Regime:

Swadeshi Movements. (1905-11)
Surat split of congress
Establishment of Muslim League (1906)
Morley-Minto Reforms(1909)

19.Lord Hardinge II (1910-1916)

Events During Regime:

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

20. Lord Chelmsford (1916-1921)

Events During Regime:

Lucknow pact (1916)
Champaran Satyagraha (1917)
Montagu’s August Declaration (1917)
Government of India Act (1919)
Rowlatt act 1919
Jallianwala bagh tragedy 1919
Launch of Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movements

21.Lord Reading (1921-1926)

Events During Regime:

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

22. Lord Irwin (1926-1931)

Events During Regime:

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

23.Lord Willingdon (1931-1936)

Events During Regime:

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

24.Lord Linlithgow (1936-1944)

Events During Regime:

Resignation of the Congress ministries after the outbreak of the Second World War (1939)
Tripuri Crisis & formation of Forward Bloc (1939)
Lahore Resolution of the Muslim League (demand for a separate state for Muslims) 1940
‘August Offer’ (1940)
Formation of the Indian National Army (1941)
Cripps Mission (1942)
Quit India Movement (1942)

25. Lord Wavell (1944-1947)

Events During Regime:

C. Rajagopalachari’s CR Formula (1944)
Wavell Plan and the Simla Conference (1942)
Cabinet Mission (1946)
Direct Action Day (1946)
Announcement of end of British rule in India by Clement Attlee (1947)

26. Lord Mountbatten (1947-1948)

Events During Regime:

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

27.Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1948-1950)

Events During Regime:

Last Governor-General of India, before the office, was permanently abolished in 1950

Governors & Viceroys Of India