List of Governors and Governor General (History Notes)

IMPORTANT GOVERNORS & GOVERNOR-GENERALS 

GOVERNOR OF BENGAL

Clive (1757-60, 1765-67)
-First governor of Bengal become after Battle of Plasi (1757).

GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF BENGAL
(Regulating Act of 1773)

Warren Hastings (1774-1785)
-Founded the Asiatic society of Bengal with William Jones in 1784 in Calcutta.
-1st  Anglo – Maratha war (1775 – 80)
-2nd Anglo – Mysore war (1780 – 84)

Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793)
-Introduced of permanent settlement in Bengal called the father of civil services in India.
-Third Anglo – Mysore war (1790 – 92)

Richard Wellesley/Lord Wellesley (1798-1805)
- Established Fort Willian College at Calcutta. For civil servants training in 1800.
-4th Anglo – Mysore war (1799)
-2nd Anglo – Maratha war (1803 – 04)

Marquess Cornwallis (Second time Governor General) (1805)

Marquess of Hastings (Earl of Moira) (1813-1823)

Lord William Bentinck (1828-1833)

GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF INDIA
(Charter Act of 1833)

Lord William Bentinck (1833-1835)
-Abolished sati system

Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856)
-Merge Punjab in 1852, 2nd Anglo – Sikh war (1848 – 49)
-2nd Anglo – Burmese war in 1852
-Woods dispatch (1854) (Education related)
-Telegraph & Postal reforms. (Post office act – 1854)

Lord Canning (1856-1858)
- Establishment of three universities at Calcutta, madras & Bombay in 1857.
-Revolt 1857.

GOVERNORS-GENERAL AND VICEROYS
(Act of 1858)

Lord Canning (1858-1862)
-The last Governor General and the first Viceroy.

Lord Lawrence (1864 − 1869)
-Telegraphic communication was opened with Europe.
-High Courts were established at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in 1865.
-Expanded canal works and railways.
-Created the Indian Forest department. 

Lord Mayo (1869 − 1872) 
-Started the process of financial decentralization in India.
-For the first time in Indian history, a census was held in 1871.
-Was the only Viceroy to be murdered in office by a Pathan convict in the Andamans in 1872.

Lord Lytton (1876 − 1880) 
-Organised the Grand ‘Delhi Durbar’ in 1877
-Decorate Queen Victoria with the title of ‘Kaiser-I-Hind’
-Arms Act (1878) made it mandatory for Indians to acquire license for arms.
-Passed the infamous Vernacular Press Act (1878). 

Lord Ripon (1880 − 1884) 
-Passed the local self-government Act (1882)
-Passed the libert Bill (1883) which enabled Indian district magistrates to try European criminals. But this was withdrawn later. 

Lord Dufferin (1884 − 1888) 
-Indian National Congress was formed during his tenure. 

Lord Elgin II (1894 − 1899) 
-Great famine of 1896 − 1897.
-Lyall Commission was appointed. 

Lord Curzon (1899-1904)
-Passed the Indian Universities Act (1904)
-Partitioned Bengal (October 16, 1905) into two provinces 1, Bengal (proper), 2. East Bengal & Assam.

Lord Minto (1905 − 1910) 
-The Indian Council Act of 1909 or the Morley-Minto Reforms was passed. 

Lord Hardinge (1910 − 1916) 
-Held a durbar in dec, 1911 to celebrate the coronation of King George V.
-Capital shifted from Calcutta to Delhi (1911).

Lord Chelmsford (1916 − 1921) 
-August Declaration of 1917
- The government of India Act in 1919 (Montague-Chelmsford reforms) was passed. 

Lord Irwin (1926-1931)
-Simon Commission visited India in 1928.
-Dandi March (Mar 12, 1930)/Civil Disobedience Movement (1930)
-First Round Table Conference held in England in 1930.
-Gandhi-Irwin Pact (Mar 5, 1931)

Lord Willington (1931 − 1936) 
-Second Round Table conference in London in 1931.
-Communal Awards (Aug 16, 1932) assigned seats to different religious communities.
-Third Round Table conference in 1932.
-Poona Pact was signed.
-Government of India Act (1935) was passed. 

Lord Linlithgow (1936 − 1944)
-Cripps Mission in 1942.
-Quit India Movement (August 8, 1942).

Lord Wavell (1944 − 1947) 
-Shimla Conference on June 25, 1945
-Cabinet Mission Plan (May 16, 1946).

Mountbatten (24 March 1947 - 15 August 1947)
-Introduced Indian independence bill in house of common

AFTER INDEPENDENCE

Mountbatten (1947-1948)

Rajagopalachari (1948-1950)