Viceroys & Acts
Indian History · वायसराय और अधिनियम · 28 facts
FIRST Governor General of Bengal → Warren Hastings (1773)
FIRST Governor General of India → Lord William Bentinck (1833)
LAST Governor General of EIC → Lord Canning
FIRST Viceroy → Lord Canning (1858)
LAST Viceroy → Lord Mountbatten (1947)
FIRST GG of free India → Lord Mountbatten; LAST GG of free India → C. Rajagopalachari
Viceroy who introduced Permanent Settlement → Lord Cornwallis
Viceroy who partitioned Bengal → Lord Curzon (1905)
Regulating Act 1773: First step to control EIC; Supreme Court at Calcutta
Pitt's India Act 1784: Dual government (Board of Control + Court of Directors)
Charter Act 1833: GG of Bengal became GG of India (Bentinck was first)
Warren Hastings = first GG of Bengal; founded Asiatic Society
Cornwallis = Permanent Settlement (1793) in Bengal
Bentinck = abolished Sati (1829); English education (Macaulay)
Dalhousie = Doctrine of Lapse; Railways 1853; Telegraph
Lord Canning = last GG of EIC + first Viceroy (1858)
Lord Curzon = Bengal Partition (1905)
Morley-Minto 1909: Separate electorate for Muslims
GoI Act 1919: Dyarchy in provinces (Montagu-Chelmsford)
GoI Act 1935: Provincial autonomy; Federal Court; RBI; basis of Indian Constitution
Lord Mountbatten = last Viceroy + first GG of free India
C. Rajagopalachari = last GG of free India (Indian)
Indian Independence Act 1947: Created India & Pakistan on 15 Aug 1947
Lord Wellesley — 1798–1805 — Subsidiary Alliance system; conquered Mysore (Tipu Sultan killed 1799)
1773: Regulating Act — First parliamentary control over EIC
1784: Pitt's India Act — Dual government system
1833: Charter Act — GG of Bengal → GG of India
1858: GoI Act — Crown takes over; Viceroy system begins