| 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. |
