Study Guide · Chapter 10
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| Year(s) | Officeholder | Title | Why Remembered |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1773–85 | Warren Hastings | Governor-General of Bengal | First G-G; later impeached (acquitted) |
| 1786–93 | Lord Cornwallis | Governor-General of Bengal | Permanent Settlement (1793) |
| 1793–98 | Sir John Shore | Governor-General of Bengal | Policy of non-intervention |
| 1798–1805 | Lord Wellesley | Governor-General of Bengal | Subsidiary Alliance; fall of Tipu Sultan |
| 1807–13 | Lord Minto I | Governor-General of Bengal | Treaty of Amritsar (1809) |
| 1813–23 | Lord Hastings (Marquess) | Governor-General of Bengal | Broke the Maratha Confederacy |
| 1823–28 | Lord Amherst | Governor-General of Bengal | First Anglo-Burmese War |
| 1828–33 | Lord William Bentinck | Governor-General of Bengal | Abolished Sati (1829) |
| 1833–35 | Lord William Bentinck | Governor-General of India | Macaulay's Minute (1835) — title-change hinge |
| 1835–36 | Sir Charles Metcalfe | Governor-General of India | "Liberator of the Press" |
| 1836–42 | Lord Auckland | Governor-General of India | Disastrous First Anglo-Afghan War |
| 1842–44 | Lord Ellenborough | Governor-General of India | Annexed Sindh (1843); recalled |
| 1844–48 | Lord Hardinge I | Governor-General of India | First Anglo-Sikh War |
| 1848–56 | Lord Dalhousie | Governor-General of India | Doctrine of Lapse; annexed Awadh; first railway |
| 1856–58 | Lord Canning | Governor-General of India | Presided over the Revolt of 1857 |
| 1858–62 | Lord Canning | Viceroy & Governor-General | First Viceroy; GoI Act 1858 |
| 1862–63 | Lord Elgin I | Viceroy & Governor-General | Died in office |
| 1864–69 | Sir John Lawrence | Viceroy & Governor-General | Telegraph/railway expansion |
| 1869–72 | Lord Mayo | Viceroy & Governor-General | Only Viceroy assassinated in India |
| 1872–76 | Lord Northbrook | Viceroy & Governor-General | Bihar famine relief debate |
| 1876–80 | Lord Lytton | Viceroy & Governor-General | Vernacular Press Act; Great Famine |
| 1880–84 | Lord Ripon | Viceroy & Governor-General | Ilbert Bill; local self-government |
| 1884–88 | Lord Dufferin | Viceroy & Governor-General | INC founded (1885) under his watch |
| 1888–94 | Lord Lansdowne | Viceroy & Governor-General | Factory Act (1891); Councils Act (1892) |
| 1894–99 | Lord Elgin II | Viceroy & Governor-General | Bombay plague epidemic |
| 1899–1905 | Lord Curzon | Viceroy & Governor-General | Partition of Bengal (1905); resigned over Kitchener dispute |
| 1905–10 | Lord Minto II | Viceroy & Governor-General | Morley-Minto Reforms; separate electorates |
| 1910–16 | Lord Hardinge II | Viceroy & Governor-General | Annulled Bengal Partition; capital to Delhi |
| 1916–21 | Lord Chelmsford | Viceroy & Governor-General | Montford Reforms; Jallianwala Bagh |
| 1921–26 | Lord Reading | Viceroy & Governor-General | Chauri Chaura withdrawal; Kakori case |
| 1926–31 | Lord Irwin | Viceroy & Governor-General | Salt March; Gandhi-Irwin Pact |
| 1931–36 | Lord Willingdon | Viceroy & Governor-General | Communal Award; Poona Pact; GoI Act 1935 |
| 1936–43 | Lord Linlithgow | Viceroy & Governor-General | Longest-serving; unilateral WWII entry; Quit India |
| 1943–47 | Lord Wavell | Viceroy & Governor-General | Bengal Famine; Cabinet Mission; recalled |
| Mar–Aug 1947 | Lord Mountbatten | Viceroy & Governor-General | Last Viceroy; Mountbatten Plan; Partition |
| 1947–48 | Lord Mountbatten | Governor-General (Dominion) | First G-G of Dominion India; princely integration |
| 1948–50 | C. Rajagopalachari | Governor-General (Dominion) | Only Indian-born G-G; office ends 26 Jan 1950 |
Practice Recall 10 — all 30, era by era. As a final cumulative test, cover the table above and write out, era by era, all 30 officeholders in order (8 + 7 + 20 + 2 — remembering that Bentinck and Canning are each counted once per era they bridge, and Mountbatten spans Eras Three and Four). Check yourself against the Full Timeline Table only when you've written down everything you can recall.
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