Governor – Generals of India – Tenure and Highlights

Governor-General Tenure Highlights
Warren Hastings 1773-1785 -Founded the Calcutta Madrasa for promotion of Islamic studies, first educational institute in 1781.
Sir John Macpherson 1785-1786 – Held temporary post.
Lord Cornwallis 1786-1793 – Establishment of the thanas.
Sir John Shore 1793-1798 – Followed a policy of non-intervention.
Lord Wellesley 1798-1805 – Introduced the Subsidiary Alliance.
Sir George Barlow 1805-1807 – The Indian soldiers killed many English officials in the Mutiny of Vellore.
Lord Minto I 1807-1813 – Treaty with Shah of Persia and Treaty of Amritsar.
Lord Hastings 1813-1823 – Published the first vernacular newspaper Samachar Patrika.
Lord Amherst 1823-1828 – First Anglo Burmese war and mutiny of Barrackpur.
Lord William Bentinck 1828-1835 – Introduced English education in India and abolished sati.
Sir Charles Metcalfe 1835-1836 – Removed the restriction on the vernacular press.
Lord Auckland 1836-1842 – The outbreak of first Anglo-Afghan war.
William Bilforce Bird 1842-1843 – Held temporary post.
Lord Ellenborough 1843-1844 – The end of the first Afhgan was and incorporation of Sindh to the British Empire.
Lord Hardinge I 1844-1848 – The First Sikh War
Lord Dalhousie 1848-1856 – Introduced ‘Doctrine of Lapse’, brought Railways and Telegraph to India.
Lord Canning 1856-1858 – Enactment of Hindu Widow Remarriage Bill, establishment of universities at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.
Lord Louis Mountbatten 1947-1948 – Governor-General of Indian Union, declared Indian Independence Act.
C. Rajagopalachari 1948-1950 – First Indian Governor-General of Indian Union.