Important Governor General & Viceroys
| Name | Year | Contribution |
| Warren Hastings | 1773-1785 | First Governor General of Bengal
Pitt’s India Act First Maratha War (1775-82) Second Mysore War (1780-84)
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| Lord Cornwallis | 1786-1793 | Cornwallis Code
Third Anglo Mysore War |
| Lord Wellesley | 1798-1805 | Introduction of Subsidiary Alliance(1798)
Fourth Mysore War (1799) Second Anglo Maratha War (1803-05) |
| Lord Hastings | 1813-1823 | Anglo Nepal War (1814-16)
Third Maratha War (1817-19) Establishment of Ryotwari Settlement by Thomas Munro |
| Lord William Bentick | 1828-35 | First Governor General of India
Abolition of Sati (1829) Charter Act of 1833 |
| Lord Metcalf | 1835-1836 | Known as “Father of free press in India” |
| Lord Hardinge I | 1844-1848 | First Anglo Sikh War (1845-46)
Abolition of Female Infanticide |
| Lord Dalhousie | 1848-1856 | Introduction of Doctrine of Lapse
Second Anglo Sikh War (1848-49) Annexation of Lower Burma (1852) Wood’s Despatch Laying of Railway line between Bombay and Thane Post Office Act,1954 |
| Lord Canning | 1856-1857 | Revolt of 1857 |
| Lord Lytton | 1876-1880 | Famine of 1876-80
Royal Titles Act (1876) The Vernacular Press Act (1878) The Arms Act (1878) |
| Lord Rippon | 1880-1884 | Repeal of Vernacular Press Act (1882)
Government resolution on local Self Government Illbert Bill controversy (1883-84) |
| Lord Curzon | 1899-1905 | Appointment of Police Commission (1902)
Appointment of Universities Commission (1902) Partition of Bengal (1905) |
| Lord Hardinge II | 1910-1916 | Creation of Bengal Presidency in 1911
Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911 Coronation of King George V |
| Lord Chelmsford | 1916-1921 | Formation of Home Rule Leagues by Annie Besant and Tilak (1916)
Lucknow Pact between Congress and Muslim League (1916) Montagu’s Chelmsford Declaration(1917) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (1919) Launch of Non Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Movement Appointment of SP Sinha as Governor of Bihar (First Indian) |
| Lord Reading | 1921-1926 | Kakori Train Robbery (1925)
Establishment of Swaraj Party by C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru (1922) |
| Lord Irwin | 1926-1931 | Simon Commission (1928)
Purna Swaraj Resolution (1929) First Round Table Conference (1930) Civil Disobedience Movement |
| Lord Willingdon | 1931-1936 | Second Round table Conference (1931)
Communal Award (1932) Third Round Table Conference (1932) The Government of India Act of 1935 Separation of Burma from India (1935) |
| Lord Linlithgow | 1936-1944 | First General Elections (1936-37)
Formation of Forward Bloc by Subash Chandra Bose (1939) Winston Churchill elected as Prime Minister of England (1940) Cripps Mission (1942) Quit India Movement (1942) |
| Lord Wavell | 1944-1947 | CR Formula (1944)
Wavell Plan (1945) End of Second World War (1945) Cabinet Mission (1946) |
| Lord Mountbatten | 1947-1948 | Introduction of Indian Independence Bill
Appointment of two boundary commissions for the partition of Bengal and Punjab |
