Viceroy of India (SSC CHSL)

Lord Canning (1858 – 62)

• Rule of company replaced by rule of crown in 1858.
• White mutiny by Indian troops in (1859).
• Indian council act 1861.
• Queen victoria proclamation was read by Lord canning at Allahabad.
• IPC – 1860

Lord Elgin – I (1862-63)

• Death – 1863, Punjab

Sir John Lawrence (1864 – 69)

• Bhutan war 1865
• Introduced First marine telegraph service between India & Europe (1865)
• Constituted a Famine Commission in chairmanship of Campbell.

Lord Mayo (1869 – 72)

• Opening of the Rajkot college at Kathiawar & the Mayo College at Ajmer for political training of Indian Princes.
• Establishment of statistical survey of India.
• Establishment of department of agriculture & commerce. (1872)
• Introduced census in India (1872)
• Kuka movement (1872)
• He was executed at portblair.

Lord Northbrook (1872 – 76)

• Visit of Prince of wales in 1875.
• Trial of Gayakwar of Baroda (1875)
• Famine in Bihar 1874
• Donate 10,000 Rs. to Mohammadan  Anglo-Oriental College Aligarh (1875).

Lord Litten (1876 – 80)

• Known as oven Meredith.
• Famine of 1876-78, affecting Madras, Bombay, Mysore, Hyderabad, parts of central India & Punjab.
• Appointment of Famine commission under the presidency of Richard strachey (1878).
• Royal titles Act – 1876 – Queen Victoria assuming the title of ‘Kaiser-i-hind’.
• The vernacular press act (1878)
• 2nd Afgan war (1878-80) 
• 1st Delhi Darbar (1877)
• Indian Arms Act 1878.
• Reduce Age of civil services 21 to 19 year.

Lord Ripon (1880 – 84)

• Repeal of vernacular press act 1882.
• The First Factory Act – 1881. To improve Labour conditions.
• Continuation of financial Decentralization (Ripon resolution)
• Government Resolution on local self government (RIPON RESOLUTION) – 1882.
• Appointment of Education commission under chairmanship of William Hunter. 1882 Hunter Commission.
• Ilbert bill controversy (1883 – 84) 
• First continuous Census – 1881
• Rendition of Mysore.
• saviour of India

Lord Dufferin (1884 – 88)

• Passed Bengal tenancy Act 1885 & Punjab tenancy Act 1887.
• Third Burmese war (1885 – 86)
• 1885 – Indian National congress established.
• 1887 – Allahabad university established.

Lord Lancedown (1888-94)

• Factory Act – 1891 
• Catagorized civil services into imperial provincial & council Act 1892.
• Indian council Act 1892.
• Setting up of Durand line between India & Afganistan. (Now between Pakistan & Afganistan)
• Prince of wales came India second time.

Lord Elgin – II (1894 – 99)

• Two British officials assassinated by chapekar brothers (1897).
• Swami vivekanand established math at Vellur & Remkrishna mission.

Lord Curzon (1899 – 1905)

• Appointment of police commission (1902) under sir Andrew Frazer to review police Administration.
• Appointment of universities commission (1902) & passing of Indian universities Act 1904.
• Establishment of department of commerce & Industries.
• Calcutta corporation act (1899) 
• Ancient monuments preservation Act (1904)
• Partition of Bengal (1905)
• Curzon kitchner controversy.
• Young husbands mission to tibbet (1904)
• Irrigation commission; chairmanship of Mancreef.
• Established C.I.D in police.
• Cooperative committee act 1904.