Governor General & Viceroy

Warren Hastings (1772-1785 AD)

Collection of revenue was taken over by the Company, Zamindars were given judicial powers; establishment of civil and criminal courts in each district.

Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793 AD)

Permanent settlement of Bengal, Reorganisation of the revenue courts and the criminal courts.

Lord Wellesley, (1798-1805 AD)

Introduced Subsidiary Alliance system, opened colleges to train the Company's servants in Calcutta, was titled the Father of the Civil Services in India.

Lord Minto I (1807-1813 AD)

Signed the treaty with Shah of Persia and Treaty of Amritsar (1809) with Ranjit Singh.

Lord William Bentinck (1828-1833 AD)

Abolition of sati in 1829, abolition of provincial courts of appeal and circuit, power of the magistrate increased, appointment of Indians as judges, banning of female infanticide, banning of human sacrifice, reform in the Hindu Law of Inheritance.

Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856 AD)

The Doctrine of Lapse, the second Burwese war, 1852, the second Anglo Sikh War, first railway line was laid from Bombay to Thana, 1853, set up of universities in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, competitive examination for the Indian Civil Services began in 1853.

Lord Canning (1858-1862 AD)

The first Viceroy of India, High courts were set up at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.

Lord Lytton (1876-1880 AD)

The Delhi Durbar was held to decorate Queen Victoria with the title Kaiser-i-Hind in 1877, foundation of the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh in 1877, famine in 1876-1878, the Vernacular Press Act and Indian Arms act,1878.

Lord Ripon (1880-1884 AD)

Repeal of Vernacular Press act, 1882, Constitution of the Hunter commission on education (1882) and Resolution in 1882 for institution of local selfgovernment in India.

Lord Curzon (1899-1905 AD)

Set up a Famine Commision, partition of Bengal in 1905, establishment of agricultural banks and the department of agriculture.

Lord Irwin (1926-31AD)

Appointment of Simon commission in 1928, the civil Disobedience movement. Gandhi-Irwin Pact, 1931 and first Round Table Conference (1930).

Lord Linlithgow (1936-44 AD)

Longest reign as viceroy of India, arrival of the Cripps Mission, the Quit India Movement, the Great Famine of Bengal (1943).

Lord Wavell (1944-1947 AD)

Arrival of the Cabinet Mission, 1946, the Interim Government under Pt. Jawajarlal Nehru's leadership and Attlee's Declaration.

Lord Mountabatten, (1947 - 1948 AD)

Declaration of third June, 1947, Indian Independence Act, Partition of the country