| 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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| 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 | |
List of British Governors-General and Viceroy of India
