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Significant Events Related with Important Governors-General & Viceroys of India
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Governors-General & Viceroys
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Events during the reign
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Warren Hastings (1773-1785)
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Ø Regulating Act of 1773
Ø The Rohilla War of 1774
Ø The First Maratha War in 1775-82 and the Treaty of Salbai in 1782
Ø Pitt’s India Act of 1784
Ø Second Mysore War in 1780-84
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Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793)
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Ø Third Mysore War (1790-92) and Treaty of Seringapatam (1792)
Ø Cornwallis Code (1793)
Ø Permanent Settlement of Bengal, 1793
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Lord Wellesley (1798-1805)
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Ø Introduction of the Subsidiary Alliance System (1798)
Ø Fourth Mysore War (1799)
Ø Second Maratha War (1803-05)
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Lord Minto I (1807-1813)
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Ø Treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit Singh (1809)
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Lord Hastings (1813-1823)
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Ø Anglo-Nepal War (1814-16) and the Treaty of Sagauli, 1816
Ø Third Maratha War (1817-19) and dissolution of Maratha Confederacy
Ø Establishment of Ryotwari System (1820)
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Lord Amherst (1823-1828)
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Ø First Burmese War (1824-1826)
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Lord William Bentinck (1828-1835)
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Ø Abolition of Sati System (1829)
Ø Charter Act of 1833
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Lord Auckland (1836-1842)
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Ø First Afghan War (1838-42)
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Lord Hardinge I (1844-1848)
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Ø First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-46) and the Treaty of Lahore (1846).
Ø Social reforms like the abolition of female infanticide
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Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856)
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Ø Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-49)
Ø The annexation of Lower Burma (1852)
Ø Introduction of the Doctrine of Lapse
Ø Wood’s Despatch 1854
Ø Laying down of first railway line connecting Bombay and Thane in 1853
Ø Laying down of first railway line connecting Bombay and Thane in 1853
Ø Establishment of PWD
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Lord Canning (1856-1862)
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Ø Revolt of 1857
Ø Establishment of three universities at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay in 1857
Ø Abolition of East India Company and transfer of control to the Crown by the Government of India Act, 1858
Ø Indian Councils Act of 1861
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Lord John Lawrence (1864-1869)
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Ø Bhutan War (1865)
Ø Establishment of the High Courts at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras (1865)
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Lord Lytton (1876-1880)
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Ø The Vernacular Press Act (1878)
Ø The Arms Act (1878)
Ø The Second Afghan War (1878-80)
Ø Queen Victoria assumed the title of ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ or Queen Empress of India
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Lord Ripon (1880-1884)
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Ø The first Factory Act (1881)
Ø Repeal of the Vernacular Press Act (1882)
Ø Government resolution on local self-government (1882)
Ø Hunter Commission on education (1882)
Ø The Ilbert Bill controversy (1883-84)
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Lord Dufferin (1884-1888)
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Ø The Third Burmese War (1885-86).
Ø Establishment of the Indian National Congress (1885)
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Lord Lansdowne (1888-1894)
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Ø Factory Act (1891).
Ø Indian Councils Act (1892).
Ø Setting up of Durand Commission (1893)
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Lord Curzon (1899-1905)
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Ø Appointment of Police Commission (1902)
Ø Appointment of Universities Commission (1902)
Ø Indian Universities Act (1904).
Ø Partition of Bengal (1905)
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Lord Minto II (1905-1910)
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Ø Swadeshi Movements. (1905-11)
Ø Establishment of Muslim League (1906)
Ø Surat Split of Congress (1907)
Ø Morley-Minto Reforms(1909)
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Lord Hardinge II (1910-1916)
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Ø Annulment of Partition of Bengal (1911)
Ø Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi (1911).
Ø Establishment of the Hindu Mahasabha (1915)
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Lord Chelmsford (1916-1921)
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Ø Lucknow pact (1916)
Ø Champaran Satyagraha (1917)
Ø Montagu’s August Declaration (1917)
Ø Government of India Act (1919)
Ø The Rowlatt Act (1919)
Ø Jallianwalla Bagh massacre (1919)
Ø Launch of Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movements
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Lord Reading (1921-1926)
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Ø Chauri Chaura incident (1922)
Ø Withdrawal of Non-Cooperation Movement (1922)
Ø Establishment of Swaraj Party(1922)
Ø Kakori train robbery (1925)
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Lord Irwin (1926-1931)
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Ø Simon Commission to India (1927)
Ø Harcourt Butler Indian States Commission (1927)
Ø Nehru Report (1928)
Ø Deepavali Declaration (1929)
Ø Lahore session of the Congress (Purna Swaraj Resolution) 1929
Ø Dandi March and the Civil Disobedience Movement (1930)
Ø First Round Table Conference (1930)
Ø Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931)
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Lord Willingdon (1931-1936)
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Ø Communal Award (1932)
Ø Second & Third Round Table Conference (1932)
Ø Poona Pact (1932)
Ø Government of India Act of 1935
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Lord Linlithgow (1936-1944)
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Ø Resignation of the Congress ministries after the outbreak of the Second World War (1939)
Ø Tripuri Crisis & formation of Forward Bloc (1939)
Ø Lahore Resolution of the Muslim League (demand for a separate state for Muslims) 1940
Ø ‘August Offer’ (1940)
Ø Formation of the Indian National Army (1941)
Ø Cripps Mission (1942)
Ø Quit India Movement (1942)
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Lord Wavell (1944-1947)
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Ø C. Rajagopalachari’s CR Formula (1944)
Ø Wavell Plan and the Simla Conference (1942)
Ø Cabinet Mission (1946)
Ø Direct Action Day (1946)
Ø Announcement of end of British rule in India by Clement Attlee (1947)
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Lord Mountbatten (1947-1948)
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Ø June Third Plan (1947)
Ø Redcliff commission (1947)
Ø India’s Independence (15 August 1947)
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Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1948-1950)
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Ø Last Governor-General of India, before the office, was permanently abolished in 1950
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