IMPORTANT ONE-LINERS FOR QUICK REVISION

IMPORTANT ONE-LINERS FOR QUICK REVISION

• Who was the first Governor-General of Bengal? — Warren Hastings
• Who was the first Governor-General of India? — Lord William Bentinck
• Who was the last Governor-General of India (before becoming Viceroy)? — Lord Canning
• Who was the first Viceroy of India? — Lord Canning
• Who was the last Viceroy of India? — Lord Mountbatten
• Who was the first Governor-General of independent India? — Lord Mountbatten
• Who was the first and only Indian Governor-General of India? — C. Rajagopalachari
• Who introduced the Permanent Settlement? — Lord Cornwallis (1793)
• Who introduced the Subsidiary Alliance System? — Lord Wellesley
• Who introduced the Doctrine of Lapse? — Lord Dalhousie
• Who abolished Sati? — Lord William Bentinck (1829)
• Who introduced the English Education Act? — Lord William Bentinck (1835), based on Macaulay's Minute
• Under whom was the first railway line laid in India? — Lord Dalhousie (1853, Bombay-Thane)
• Under whom was the first telegraph line laid? — Lord Dalhousie (1853, Calcutta-Agra)
• Under whom did the Revolt of 1857 take place? — Lord Canning
• Who passed the Indian Councils Act, 1861? — Lord Canning
• Which Viceroy was assassinated in India? — Lord Mayo (1872, in the Andaman Islands)
• Who is known as the "Father of Local Self-Government in India"? — Lord Ripon
• Under whom was the Ilbert Bill controversy? — Lord Ripon (1883)
• Under whom was the Indian National Congress founded? — Lord Dufferin (1885); founded by A.O. Hume
• Who partitioned Bengal in 1905? — Lord Curzon
• Who annulled the Partition of Bengal? — Lord Hardinge II (1911)
• Under whom was the Muslim League founded? — Lord Minto II (1906, at Dacca)
• Who introduced separate electorates for Muslims? — Lord Minto II, via the Morley-Minto Reforms (1909)
• Under whom was the capital of India shifted from Calcutta to Delhi? — Lord Hardinge II (1911)
• Who passed the Rowlatt Act? — Lord Chelmsford (1919)
• Under whom did the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre occur? — Lord Chelmsford (13 April 1919)
• Who introduced the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms? — Lord Chelmsford (Government of India Act, 1919)
• Under whom was the Non-Cooperation Movement launched? — Lord Chelmsford (1920)
• Under whom was the Non-Cooperation Movement withdrawn (after Chauri Chaura)? — Lord Reading (1922)
• Under whom did the Kakori Conspiracy Case occur? — Lord Reading (1925)
• Under whom did the Simon Commission visit India? — Lord Irwin (1928)
• Under whom was the Dandi March/Salt Satyagraha? — Lord Irwin (1930)
• Who signed the Gandhi-Irwin Pact? — Lord Irwin (1931)
• Under whom was the Communal Award announced and the Poona Pact signed? — Lord Willingdon (1932)
• Under whom was the Government of India Act, 1935 passed? — Lord Willingdon
• Under whom was the Government of India Act, 1935 implemented (provincial elections)? — Lord Linlithgow (1937)
• Under whom was the Quit India Movement launched? — Lord Linlithgow (1942)
• Under whom did the Bengal Famine occur? — Lord Linlithgow (1943)
• Under whom was the Cabinet Mission Plan sent? — Lord Wavell (1946)
• Under whom were the INA (Red Fort) Trials held? — Lord Wavell (1945-46)
• Under whom was India partitioned and granted independence? — Lord Mountbatten (1947)
• Who drew the boundary line between India and Pakistan? — Sir Cyril Radcliffe (the "Radcliffe Line"), under Mountbatten's Viceroyalty
• Under whose Governor-Generalship was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated? — Lord Mountbatten (30 January 1948)
• Who succeeded Mountbatten as Governor-General? — C. Rajagopalachari
• When was the post of Governor-General abolished? — 26 January 1950, with the adoption of the Constitution/India becoming a Republic
• Who became the first President of India after the Governor-General post was abolished? — Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Who is known as the "Father of Civil Services in India"? — Lord Cornwallis
• Who is known as "Liberator of the Indian Press"? — Sir Charles Metcalfe
• Under whom was the Vernacular Press Act passed and later repealed? — Passed by Lytton (1878); repealed by Ripon (1882)
• Under whom was the Widow Remarriage Act passed? — Lord Canning (1856)
• Under whom was Punjab annexed? — Lord Dalhousie (1849, after Second Anglo-Sikh War)
• Under whom was Awadh (Oudh) annexed? — Lord Dalhousie (1856)
• Under whom was the Treaty of Sugauli signed? — Lord Hastings (1816, ending the Anglo-Nepal War)
• Under whom was the Treaty of Amritsar (with Ranjit Singh) signed? — Lord Minto I (1809)
• Under whom did the Vellore Mutiny occur? — Sir George Barlow (1806)