List of British Governors-General and Viceroy of India

Governor Genral	Timeline	Important Facts

Warrne Hastings	1773-1785
Lord Cornwollis	1786-1793	Permanent Settlement Bengal 1793
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Sir John Shore	1793-1798
Lord Wellesley	1798-1805	Introduced Subsidiary alliance system
Sir George Barlow	1805-1807
Lord Minto I	1807-1813
Lord Hastings	1813-1823	Thomas Munro established Ryotwari system in 1820 in Madras
Lord Amherst	1823-1828
Lord William Bentick	1828-1835	Abolition of Sati
Lord Metcalfe	1835-1836	Removed restriction of Press
Lord Auckland	1836-1842
Lord Ellenborough	1842-1844
Lord Hardinge I	1844-1848	Abolition of female infanticide & human scarifice
Lord Dalhousie	1848-1856	Doctrine of Lapse
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#rowspan#	#rowspan#	Widow Remarriage Act 1856
Lord Canning	1856-1857	Revolt of 1857
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Viceroy	Timeline	Important Facts
Lord Canning	1858-1862	Introduced Portfolio System in Administration
Lord Elgin	1862-1863	introduced Wahabi Movement
Lord John Lawerence	1864-1869
Lord Mayo	1869-1872	Introduced State Railways
Lord NorthBrook	1872-1876
Lord Lytton	1876-1880
Lord Ripon	1880-1884	Introduced Local Self Government
Lord Dufferin	1884-1888	Establishment of Indian National Congress
Lord Landsdowne	1888-1894	Durand Commission for Durand Line
Lord Elgin II	1894-1899
Lord Curzon	1889-1905	Partition of Bengal
Lord Minto	1905-1910	Establishment of Muslim league
Lord Hardinge II	1910-1916	Transfer of Capital from Calcutta to Delhi (1911)
Lord Chelmsford	1916-1921	Home Rule Mov(1916)
Lord Reading	1921-1926
Lord Irwin	1926-1931
Lord Willingdon	1931-1936
Lord Linlithgrow	1936-1944
Lord Wavell	1944-1947
Lord Mountbatten	1947-1948
C. Rajagopalachari	1948-26Jan1950

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